Petacchi does it on the 10th day

Finally, the Giro returns to "normal"

It took Giancarlo Ferretti's men 10 days to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia, but finally Fassa Bortolo's gun sprinter Alessandro Petacchi was able to throw his hands in the air at the finish of stage 9 in Ravenna, which also marked the end of the first half of the corsa rosa. It's been a very bumpy start for the silver and blue train, which had a mortgage on all the flat stages in last year's Giro. Today, it had to work hard to fend off Credit Agricole, T-Mobile, Francaise des Jeux, and Davitamon-Lotto, who were all hungry for victory. But Petacchi's men kept their heads and more importantly, their positions at the front of the peloton with 1 km to go, giving Ale-Jet the textbook leadout that he wanted so that he could finish the job.

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