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Today we are in Montalcino.

We are in Montalcino, but we are not at the end of the race yet because there is another circuit

The riders have to do, we have seen the leaders come through the lead group, we have just seen

George Bennett and Tobias Fossin, a little bit of a road move, a counter attack, and then we have seen

the lead group which earlier, well it is the remnants of the group that was torn to shreds by

Philippe Vaganda.

The riders on these white gravel roads, they have promised a lot and they have delivered that

a lot and we have been convinced that this is going to be a lot of progress.

We are in Montalcino, but we are not going to get back on it, but initially, and here is

another big group, maybe four more more, but initially Ghana did so much damage, he was like

a wrecking ball, he took about five minutes out of the break the way he is leading in the

first section of gravel alone and it looked as if the break we might come back, I think that is less likely

now, but shall we go back to Perugia?

We are going to start this morning and we will hear what Matt Winston and Matt White thought about how this

seemed to be done for.

Matt, huge day, in many ways it is the most hotly anticipated day of the Giro, gravel, Montalcino, what is going to happen?

I think everyone is going to be pretty excited, going into this stage, it is the stage that people talk about and

I will be sure nervous about, so I think we will see a GC battle, I think we will see a lot of teams protecting

GC leaders, they will be a real fight for every sector, then there may be a little bit of a regrouping while the teams get the

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