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Ricco scales an uphill task
July 13, 2008
In the peloton, struggling sprinters such as Robbie McEwen, Mark Cavendish and Freire were discarded and regrouped to climb at their own pace.
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Dubbed "The Cobra", Ricco was the first big name to shake up the peloton on the Col d'Aspin but Evans's Silence-Lotto team also stepped up a gear to catch the climber.
Ricco, however, was at it again four km from the summit, firing clear of the bunch in a style reminiscent of the late Marco Pantani, his idol.
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