2009 Giro D'Italia
May 9 - May 31, 2009
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May 12, Tuesday: Photos from Stage 4, Padova - San Martino di Castrozza, 165 km. High mountains with a hilltop finish.
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| On the lower slopes of the final climb with the Astanas sticking together. Armstrong is in sunglasses. Ivan Basso is just to Armstrong's left. | |||||
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| Basso, the center of the 3 Liquigas riders looks comfortable on the climb. I think the Columbia rider on the left of the picture is the new Maglia Rosa, Thomas Lovkvist. | |||||
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| Armstrong was riding a lot of the climb further back in the pack than is his norm. He wasn't funnin' us when he said he hadn't achieved his full form yet. | |||||
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| Juan Mauricio Soler launched an incendiary attack in the final kilometer. He came damn close to making it stick. | |||||
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| The Killer sweeps by Soler in a superbly timed last-minute move. Di Luca wins the stage and makes his sparkling form abundantly clear. | |||||