The first week of the Giro was very exciting. Paolo Bettini was in the middle of the action taking a stage win, the leader’s jersey, and also Australian sprinter Baden Cooke into the barriers. For the last move, Bettini was relegated to the back of the pack and Cooke was left wondering what might have been. Saturday saw the first TT and the opportunity for the potential winners to make their move. American Dave Zabriskie - Team CSC and a Utah native won the TT by just 17 seconds over teammate Ivan Basso. Dave was far down the overall classification and so Danilo Di Luca kept the Maglia Rosa, for now.
Today the Giro heads into the high mountains and the real fighting will start. Paolo Salvadelli of Discovery Channel lost his teammate Tom Danielson from an inflamed knee. Paolo will need to utilize the inevitable fighting from Simoni, Cunego and Basso and just play off of their attacks.
General classification after stage 10
1 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 44.51.40
2 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 0.09
3 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Discovery Channel-Pro Cycling Team 0.35
4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.15
5 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.27
6 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi 1.35
7 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.38
8 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 1.39
9 Markus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.10
10 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 2.11
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