Only one categorised climb, inside the first 35km, but this day undulates constantly between sea level and 500m-plus altitude and is the second-longest of the race. It’s not quite ambush territory, and the downhill run-in should see a large group contest the stage win. Stages like this are a speciality of the Giro – neither particularly flat, nor hilly, just hard.
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No Betsema in Dutch team for Cyclo-cross World Championships
Van der Poel leads seven-man team for elite men's race -
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Tour Down Under stage 6 race highlights – Video
First WorldTour win for Holmes as Porte takes overall victory -
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Burned-out bushfire areas at Tour Down Under 'like something out of a film about the end of the world'
Riders speak of the smells, lack of colour and sadness of the decimated areas -
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Track World Cup VI: Van Schip, Van Riessen with double Dutch gold
Eilers wins men's Omnium, Great Britain take women's Madison
