12th stage Giro of Italy - Tour of Italy - Tiago Machado best portuguese

Among the Portuguese fleet, only Nelson Oliveira (RadioShack) was timed (72. º) with the same time of Cavendish. Bruno Pires (Saxo-Tinkoff) yielded 1:07 minutes (104. º), while Tiago Machado (RadioShack) crossed the line in 156. º position in the group of Bradley Wiggins (122. Paragraph), 3:17 minutes. Finally Mestre Ricardo (Euskatel) was 178. (To be 4.24 m.)


In the overall standings, and when there's only one stage before, the mountains is Nibali maintains the 41-second advantage over Australian Cadel Evans (BMC), while Wiggins, who was 4. °, rose to 13 . thereof, being now to 5.22 minutes.

Machado is now 31. º (a t23:43 m), Pires 73. º (at 1:04:08 h), Oliveira 84. º (at 1:12:22 h) and Ricardo Mestre 163 (at 1:58:05 h).


Friday will be played to 13. Stage, the longest this year, with 154 kilometers. The course presents a count of mountain 3. ª category