A huge breakaway in the rainy eleventh stage of the 2010 Giro d’Italia has upset the field, relegating the favorites to the middle of the General Classification and elevating some relative unknowns.
More of a splitting of the peloton than a breakaway, a group of 56 riders broke from the peloton fifteen miles into the 164-mile stage, and forty of them managed to stay clear, with Katusha rider Evgeni Petrov taking the stage win followed by Dario Cotaldo of Quick Step.
2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre, riding for Cervélo, finished third. Sasrte had started the day nearly ten minutes behind.
Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov, returning to cycling after being banned for drug use in 2008, had been leading the Giro, He now stands 12th in the General Classification, 9:58 off the leader.
Vinokourov seemed unworried by the day’s results. “The Giro is not over yet,” he told the New York Times. “There’s still 10 days to go.”
More of a splitting of the peloton than a breakaway, a group of 56 riders broke from the peloton fifteen miles into the 164-mile stage, and forty of them managed to stay clear, with Katusha rider Evgeni Petrov taking the stage win followed by Dario Cotaldo of Quick Step.
2008 Tour de France winner Carlos Sastre, riding for Cervélo, finished third. Sasrte had started the day nearly ten minutes behind.
Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov, returning to cycling after being banned for drug use in 2008, had been leading the Giro, He now stands 12th in the General Classification, 9:58 off the leader.
Vinokourov seemed unworried by the day’s results. “The Giro is not over yet,” he told the New York Times. “There’s still 10 days to go.”
