Breakaway succeeds at Giro d’Italia; slight reshuffling of leaders

This hardly ever happens, but sometimes the breakaway does stay out in front until the finish line.

Two cyclists celebrated that rare good luck on Stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia on Friday, when Colombia Luis Felipe Laverde (Ceramica) won the stage and Italian Marco Pinotti (T-Mobile) took the leader's pink jersey.

It marks the first time in the 2007 that a member of the Liquigas team -- primarily Danilo Di Luca -- didn't don the pink jersey at the end of the day. Di Luca sits in 3rd place overall, 4-minutes-12 in back of Pinotti ...

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