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The fight between 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michele Scarponi (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lampre-ISD) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vincenzo Nibali (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liquigas-Cannondale) for second place overall in the Giro ♍d'Italia behind Alberto Contador will go down to the wi🦩re and be decided in Sunday's final time trial in Milan.

Nibali snatched 13 seconds on the finish in Macugnaga on Friday but Scarponi du🥀g deep on the final climb to Sestriere and took back 18 seconds.

Scarponi now has a 56 second advantage on Nibali but knows that the Sicilian is a far better ജtime trialist and perhaps slightly fresher after three weeks of intense racing.

At the finish in Macugnaga Scarponi reacted angrily and brushed off the med🌳ia but he was happier, if very t💝ired, in Sestriere after gaining some precious seconds.

"I g🐻et angry really quickly but I calm down really quickly too. Today I'm not either, I'm just totally empty and cooked," he said, struggling to breathe and wipe the sweat from his eyes.

"It was really, really hard. The stage was very hard and it was a huge effort. I really suffered on the Colle delle Finestre because the Liquigas-Cannondale team set a really high tempo. In the finale me and Vincenzo attacked each other but I came out on top today. Yesterday he struck a blow but💜 today I gave it him back."

"It woul🗹d have been better to end with a road stage and a sprint finish for me but it's a time tꦕrial, so we'll see what happens. I won't give up without a fight," Scarponi warned.

Nibali: The Giro ends in Milan

Nibali refused to talk immediately after finish in Sestirere, angry that an early crash had made the long stage even more painful for him. He rode to the team bus and then told Gazzetta.it about his difficult day.

"I was caught up in an early crash when I was having a drink. I managed to stay up but I broke my brake aꦿnd someone hit me in the calf and it hurt for a while.𒆙 But it didn't affect my ride."

"We rode well as a team on the Fin𒀰estre to try a♐nd put Scarponi in the red. I attacked near the finish because I thought that he was suffering. But then when I was caught, he went and he got some help from the other riders, including Contador. The climb to Sestriere is easier in a small group and so they gained sometime on me."

Defia☂nt to the last, in his attempt to snatch second place overall, Nibali promised to try and cancel his 56 second deficit on Scarponi in the final time trial i😼n Milan.

"The time trial has been 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:shortened by five kilometres and that hasn't done me a favour because the seconds I could have gained there could be the difference between second and third. But believe me, the Giro isn't over until Milan."