Bart De Clerq of Omega Pharma Lotto won the seventh stage of the Giro D'italia this afternoon.
Stage seven was only 110km long from Maddaloni to Montevergine di Mercogliano through the Appenines of the Campania region, but was the first mountain top finish of the race.
Federico Canuti (Colnago), Jerome Pineau (Quickstep) had been involved in an early break and were joined by Giovanni Visconit (Farnese), Lars Bak (HTC Highroad) and Matteo Montaguti (AG2R) before they made it to the Serra della Strada which was the first climb of the day.
With 50kms left, Omega Pharma Lotto's Sebastian Lang, who had got twenty minutes clear on the second stage before being pulled back, tried to bridge the two minute gap along with Eustkatel's Pierre Cazaux. Jonny Hoogerlands did plenty of attacking but the race came down to a sprint which Bart De Clerq won.
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According to our friends at cyclingnews.com, 'French newspaper L'Equipe on Friday published a list of all the riders participating in last year's Tour de France and their individual scores of suspicion for doping from a confident International Cycling Union document.
The riders were given a rating of between zero and ten with zero being no suspicion and ten maximum suspicion.
Of the British and Irish riders, only Nicholas Roche was given a zero. Daniel Lloyd had a one, Mark Cavendish two, Charles Weglius three, David Millar four, Bradley Wiggins five, Geraint Thomas six and Jeremy Hunt seven,
For the full list, please click on http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/ucis-suspicious-list-leaked-from-2010-tour-de-france