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Today we are on the Passo Fedia.

The final four-millimeter are Passo important, so we're going to have more than a thousand meters.

I think the level between the top three guys is pretty comparable at the moment.

It's hard to make a difference, but I think today is the day for it.

Brian, this is the mythical spot Malgachapela between Malgachapela and Campana Bil.

I'm also starting to get that smell of clutch, and when that starts to happen, the climb is hard.

Marco Pantania, Nostra Emotione Perse, Big Omaster, Marco Pantani at Malgachapela itself, I think that refuge is on the right hand side.

We've just seen a lot of fans out, a lot of pink isn't there?

Also, it's second like I've been reading most of what you've been writing about this very famous climb, it's just straight and you can really see you're staring directly into the pain you're going to have for the next kilometers.

There's just no letting go, there's no... I mean there's a lot of refuudio here, a lot of places where you can go and seek shelter, but not if you're a professional bike rider, not on this climb.

This is more or less the exact spot where Pavel Tonkov's dream for a shot and my dream for a shot in 1998, so I'm just going to observe a moment, not a minute silence, but I'm going to observe a moment silence, a moment of mourning for that, a regrettable episode.

Tonkov has definitely gone to this, but my brain, imagine let's fast forward a couple of hours, you're here, you're into a carapas, you're just joking, you're going to be out of hand up.

I'm glad it's very nervous.

It's not for a moment.

It's just a moment.

What are you thinking at this point?

We were five kilometers to go.

We hardly part of the time.

It's almost behind you.

But it's now or never, isn't it?

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