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A dramatic finish to stage 18 of the 2012 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia produced a moment that has become all too rare in the sport of road cycling over the last few years - a defeat for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish in bunched sprint to the line when he has been set up🌄 perfectly by his team. The Team Sky rider was beaten into second place and denied a fourth stage win in the🐓 race by an astonishing display from Farnese Vini-Selle Italia's Andrea Guardini.

The 22-year-old Italian produced a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:deva✨stating burst of speed💞 in the closing stages, sweepi♉ng round the outside and taking Cavendish by complete surprise. The British world champion grimaced and punched his handlebars as he crossed the line in second place despite enjoying more help from his teammates than Guardini was afforded and despite having a clearer run.

"I wasn't angry with him [Guardini], I just don't like losing to anyone," Cavendish, who leads the over🔯all points classification, said afterwards.

"He had more energy than me and was simply the fastest rider out there today. In the middle s💃ection of the sprint I lost some of my strength. If I hadn't been knocked over by Rob🅺erto Ferrari at the end of stage three I'd be in a better position than I am and now I need to fight to hang on to the [red] jersey."

A few hours later after tܫhe dust he wrote on his Twitter account: "Pretty angry to be beaten when my team set me up like today. I was lazy and left the sprint 50 metres too late. Andrea Guardini was fast!"