A fatal crash on a downhill run cast a pall over the Giro d'Italia as it wrapped up Stage 3 on the Italian Riviera on Monday.
Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt, left, died from injuries he suffered in a crash on the descent of Passo del Bocco, about 15 miles from the finish line.
Video from the race showed EMTs performing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on the rider for Leopard Trek. Reports say he was later airlifted to a local hospital ….
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Belgian cyclist for Leopard-Trek
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While Stage 3 on Monday is another day for the sprinters, the cyclists will first have to survive two climbs on the 173km bike race from Reggio Emilia to Rapallo.
Here are descriptions and route maps of the two climbs from CyclingtheAlps.com. You also can take a virtual bicycle ride over the second climb with Streetviews.
First is the gradual Passo del Bocco (957m) that ends in a series of short ramps …
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Two prolific Giro d'Italia sprint winners of recent years battled to a controversial finish in Parma on Sunday.
Known as well by their nicknames Ale-Jet and Manx Missile, Italy's Alessandro Petacchi edged Mark Cavendish (Great Britain) by the width of a bicycle tire at the finish line.
While Petacchi threw up is arms in celebration, Cavendish gestured angrily at his rival and then the judges, motioning that he'd been cut off in the last hundred yards of the sprint. [Video from UniversalSport.com shows how it unfolded]….
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Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre
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Mark Cavendish at Giro d'Italia
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Some bicyclists will do anything to avoid a climb. They route their rides through the flat lands and never taste the challenge of vertical exertion.
At the other extreme is Dennis Wegewijs, a Dutch bicycling enthusiast who searches out the most difficult climbs — namely Alpine passes — to summit on his bicycle with his friends.
Dennis said that at some point, they decided to ride their bicycles over all the passes of the Alps. Why?
That enthusiasm for Alpine cycling prompted Dennis to launch an amazing website named CyclingtheAlps.com….
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Dennis Wegejis celebrates at the top of Gurnigel Pass (el. 1608m) in Switzerland with friends Daniel, left, and Michel. The trio search out Alpine passes to summit on their bicycles. Dennis is the webmaster at CyclingtheAlps.com, which maps and profiles all the passes.
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Climbing stages
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An undying interest in high mountain passes by a German cycling fan will enable the BikingBis blog's 2011 Giro d'Italia report to include maps, profiles and streetviews of all the climbs in this year's bicycle race.
More about Dennis Wegewijs on Sunday, but suffice it to say that he is sharing data from his CyclingtheAlps.com website for the Giro climbs in the Alps and Dolomites, as well as Mount Etna.
Let's start with the climb on Stage 2 — Tabiano Castello. At 315 meters it's not a giant, but …
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