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David Olle in Italy, +39 333 5959 217.

Giro d'Italia, May 8 - 30, 2010, Stage 12, Thursday May 20, 206 km

Città Sant'Angelo → Porto Recanati

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The first Italian stage winner in this year's Giro.
Filipo Pozzato from Team Katusha waved the Italian flag today, taking a win in Porto Recanti. Italy breathes a sigh of relief, and the focus comes off Tasmania.

Results
1 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Team Katusha 5:15:50

2 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom

3 Jerome Pineau (Fra) Quick Step

General classification
1 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Saxo Bank 50:46:16

2 David Arroyo Duran (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0:01:42

3 Robert Kiserlovski (Cro) Liquigas-Doimo 0:01:56

Skippy report: Richie Porte, hardly saw him today. He wears the leader's jersey again, tomorrow. That makes it a successful first day in La Maglia Rosa. Good stuff. Cadel participated in a bit o' bitch slapping in the closing kilometers, with some negatively geared Italians. Looks like he'll come out of it smelling like roses, ‘cause he was racing (along with wearing the rainbow jersey).

Cuisine report: http://www.twitpic.com/1pesgy

For those in Australia, SBS2 does a daily report on the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) called by Matt Keenan in the evenings, catch them if you can.

The Bike Race:
Three stages kick start the race in Holland, before they transfer to Savigliano in Italy's north west Piedmonte region. From here the race heads further south, through Tuscany, across to Abruzzo before returning to the Dolomites in the north-east and the event's Grand Finale in Verona. 198 riders (14 from Australia) complete 21 stages over 3 weeks, visiting 2 countries en route, with just 2 rest days. 3,416 kilomtres, running May 8 - 30.

The Writer:

David Olle's cycling reports are used by ABC radio's 774 DRIVE show in Melbourne, ABC radio 702 breakfast show in Sydney, ABC national overnights and 3RRR FM's Breakfasters. He chats regularly with all. He also created and produces the magazine style TV show ‘Topbike TV' which is seen throughout Australia and New Zealand on community televison. The reports are also published here, www.cyclesportnews.com, along with any photos.

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