T-Mobile tactics to a T - almost

When two of their riders made the decisive break of 18 during yesterday's Giro stage to Varazze, T-Mobile's tactics were going to a T.

"The tactics were to get at least one of our riders into any breakaway group," said directeur sportif Valerio Piva on t-mobile-team.com. "André and Eric were paying attention at the right moment. After that, we were able to sit back in the main bunch and the other teams were obviously also content to do the same."

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