Giro d'Italia 2008 - Stage Fourteen

The 2008 Giro d'Italia held from May 10 until June 21 covering 21 stages.

Emanuele Sella among the fans - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

Behind Sella, the battle for the race, Mechov in orange awaits his moment to apply the pressure - fotoreporter sirotti

New race leader Gabriele Bosisio of LPR - Pic fotoreporter sirotti

The peloton tackled the first day in the Dolomites with the specialist climbers coming to the fore and with the stages in the mountains not just about the stage winner, but also who would gain time to stake their claim on the 2008 Giro d'Italia

Italian mountain specialist and mountain comp leader, Emanuele Sella coming home alone to win atop of Alpe de Pampeago, four minutes ahead of Vasik Kiryienka and more than five minutes in front of Spanish champion Joaquim Rodriguez.

Further down the 23km climb Dennis Menchov, Gilberto Simoni and Ricardo Ricco put time into Danilo Di Luca, Alberto Contador and Andreas Klodden.

The first three to finish were part of a 13-strong group that slipped the peloton as early as the 13th kilometre in this 195km run. Sella made his move 50km out on the Manghen pass.

The pink jersey contenders including Astana's Alberto Contador and Germany's Andreas Kloden waited until the last three and a half kilometres on the stiffest portion of the final 1740m climb to play their hands.

Saturday's result was compensation for Sella who had been robbed of a possible win in the seventh stage at Pescocostanzo due to a puncture. This was the 26-year-old's second success in the Giro, four years after he took a stage at Cesena.

Bosisio, the winner of this year's stage at Pescocostanzo, was taking charge of the pink jersey for the first time. He leads Contador in the overall standings by five seconds with a 28sec gap back to third-placed Marzio Bruseghin.

Riccardo Ricco lies fourth, 1min02sec adrift, followed by defending champion Daniele Di Luca (at 1:07), Kloden (1:11) and Russian Denis Menchov (7th at 1:18).

1 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 05:37:14
2 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 04:38
3 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 05:08
4 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 07:28
5 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 07:59
6 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 08:48
7 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 08:57
8 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 08:57
9 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 09:01
10 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 09:01
11 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 09:03
12 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 09:11
13 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 09:14
14 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 09:27
15 Contador Alberto ESP AST 09:33
16 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 09:38
17 Kloden Andreas GER AST 09:57
18 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 09:57
19 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 10:11
20 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 10:23
21 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 10:37
22 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 10:42
23 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 10:42
24 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 10:47
25 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 10:47
26 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 11:00
27 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 11:00
28 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 11:40
29 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 11:40
30 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 11:40
31 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 11:40
32 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 12:53
33 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 12:53
34 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 13:08
35 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 13:31
36 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 13:33
37 Possoni Morris ITA THR 13:33
38 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 13:43
39 Voigt Jens GER CSC 13:46
40 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 13:56
41 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 13:56
42 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 14:37
43 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 15:10
44 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 15:17
45 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 15:32
46 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 15:45
47 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 17:49
48 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 17:49
49 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 17:49
50 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 17:49
51 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 17:49
52 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 17:49
53 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 17:49
54 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 17:49
55 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 17:49
56 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 18:02
57 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 18:02
58 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 18:02
59 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 18:02
60 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 18:02
61 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 18:20
62 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 18:39
63 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 19:38
64 Hansen Adam AUS THR 20:03
65 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 20:40
66 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 21:57
67 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 22:44
68 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 23:28
69 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 25:39:00
70 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 25:45:00
71 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 25:54:00
72 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 25:58:00
73 Loosli David SUI LAM 26:01:00
74 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 28:41:00
75 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 29:43:00
76 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 29:43:00
77 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 29:43:00
78 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 29:43:00
79 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 29:43:00
80 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 29:43:00
81 Eltink Theo NED RAB 29:43:00
82 Martens Paul GER RAB 29:43:00
83 Zabel Erik GER MRM 29:43:00
84 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 29:43:00
85 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 29:43:00
86 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 29:43:00
87 Velo Marco ITA MRM 29:43:00
88 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 29:43:00
89 Facci Mauro ITA QST 29:43:00
90 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 29:43:00
91 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 29:43:00
92 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 29:43:00
93 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 29:43:00
94 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 29:43:00
95 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 29:43:00
96 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 29:43:00
97 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 29:43:00
98 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 29:43:00
99 Engels Addy NED QST 29:43:00
100 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 29:43:00
101 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 29:58:00
102 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 30:10:00
103 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 30:15:00
104 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 30:43:00
105 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 31:44:00
106 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 32:13:00
107 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 32:37:00
108 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 33:32:00
109 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 34:37:00
110 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 35:12:00
111 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 35:33:00
112 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 35:33:00
113 Dean Julian NZL TSL 35:59:00
114 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 36:04:00
115 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 36:17:00
116 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 36:25:00
117 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 36:40:00
118 Monier Damien FRA COF 36:45:00
119 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 36:58:00
120 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 38:26:00
121 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 41:37:00
122 De Groot Bram NED RAB 41:37:00
123 Martin Tony GER THR 41:37:00
124 Fothen Thomas GER GST 41:37:00
125 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 41:37:00
126 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 41:37:00
127 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 41:37:00
128 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 41:37:00
129 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 41:37:00
130 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 41:37:00
131 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 41:37:00
132 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 41:37:00
133 Greipel André GER THR 41:37:00
134 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 41:37:00
135 Gates Nick AUS SIL 41:37:00
136 Millar David GBR TSL 41:37:00
137 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 41:37:00
138 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 41:37:00
139 Lund Anders DEN CSC 41:37:00
140 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 41:37:00
141 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 41:37:00
142 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 41:37:00
143 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 41:37:00
144 Pate Danny USA TSL 41:37:00
145 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 41:37:00
146 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 41:37:00
147 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 41:37:00
148 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 41:37:00
149 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 41:37:00
150 Russ Matthias GER GST 41:37:00
151 Krauss Sven GER GST 41:37:00
152 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 41:37:00
153 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 41:37:00
154 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 41:37:00
155 Huguet Yann FRA COF 41:51:00
156 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 41:55:00
157 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 41:57:00
158 Eichler Markus GER MRM 42:02:00

General Classification (Maglia Rosa)
1 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 63:10:47
2 Contador Alberto ESP AST 00:05
3 Bruseghin Marzio ITA LAM 00:28
4 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 01:02
5 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 01:07
6 Kloden Andreas GER AST 01:11
7 Menchov Denis RUS RAB 01:18
8 Simoni Gilberto ITA SDA 01:31
9 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 01:32
10 Visconti Giovanni ITA QST 01:35
11 Savoldelli Paolo ITA LPR 01:40
12 Van Den Broeck Jurgen BEL SIL 02:04
13 Nibali Vincenzo ITA LIQ 02:06
14 Larsson Gustav Erik SWE CSC 02:51
15 Vandevelde Christian USA TSL 02:54
16 Piepoli Leonardo ITA SDV 03:16
17 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 04:32
18 Pozzovivo Domenico ITA CSF 04:43
19 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 04:47
20 Sorensen Chris DEN CSC 04:53
21 Petrov Evgeni RUS TCS 05:01
22 Valjavec Tadej SLO ALM 05:03
23 Leipheimer Levi USA AST 05:51
24 Veikkanen Jussi FIN FDJ 06:34
25 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 07:22
26 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 07:33
27 Szmyd Sylvester POL LAM 08:08
28 Ardila Cano Mauricio A. COL RAB 09:31
29 Karpets Vladimir RUS GCE 10:04
30 Le Boulanger Yoann FRA FDJ 10:11
31 Possoni Morris ITA THR 10:51
32 Laverde Jimenez Luis F. COL CSF 11:29
33 Tonti Andrea ITA QST 14:39
34 Serpa Perez Jose Rodolfo COL SDA 14:47
35 Pasamontes Luis ESP GCE 15:25
36 Miholjevic Vladimir CRO LIQ 16:28
37 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 16:29
38 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 17:15
39 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 17:33
40 Colom Mas Antonio ESP AST 17:43
41 Sorensen Nicki DEN CSC 20:14
42 Noe' Andrea ITA LIQ 22:52
43 Pinotti Marco ITA THR 22:59
44 Golcer Jure SLO LPR 24:05:00
45 Nardello Daniele ITA SDA 25:01:00
46 Siutsou Kanstantsin BLR THR 26:12:00
47 Spezialetti Alessandro ITA LPR 27:06:00
48 Lloyd Matthew AUS SIL 27:29:00
49 Frohlinger Johannes GER GST 28:17:00
50 Garate Juan Manuel ESP QST 28:31:00
51 Mazzanti Luca ITA TCS 31:31:00
52 Van Huffel Wim BEL SIL 33:20:00
53 Pietropolli Daniele ITA LPR 34:28:00
54 Cherel Mikael FRA FDJ 34:28:00
55 Spilak Simon SLO LAM 36:12:00
56 De Greef Francis BEL SIL 37:28:00
57 Gusev Vladimir RUS AST 37:37:00
58 Blaudzun Michael DEN CSC 38:46:00
59 Kozontchuk Dmitry RUS RAB 40:24:00
60 Nocentini Rinaldo ITA ALM 40:25:00
61 Voigt Jens GER CSC 43:42:00
62 Ochoa Carlos José VEN SDA 44:22:00
63 Canada Gracia David ESP SDV 44:44:00
64 Iglinskiy Maxim KAZ AST 45:57:00
65 Perez Lezaun Alan ESP EUS 46:34:00
66 Russ Matthias GER GST 46:42:00
67 Velasco Murillo Ivan ESP EUS 47:44:00
68 Mizourov Andrey KAZ AST 49:05:00
69 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 50:33:00
70 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 51:09:00
71 Ivanov Ruslan MDA SDA 51:43:00
72 Zabel Erik GER MRM 52:23:00
73 Pfannberger Christian AUT BAR 53:16:00
74 Perez Sanchez Francisco ESP GCE 54:20:00
75 Camano Ortuzar Iker ESP SDV 55:20:00
76 Loosli David SUI LAM 56:24:00
77 Hesjedal Ryder CAN TSL 57:38:00
78 Velo Marco ITA MRM 57:42:00
79 Gavazzi Francesco ITA LAM 57:58:00
80 Deignan Philip IRL ALM 58:04:00
81 Irizar Markel ESP EUS 59:02:00
82 Perez Arango Marlon A. COL GCE 01:00:57
83 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 01:01:24
84 Eltink Theo NED RAB 01:01:28
85 Horrach Rippoll Joan ESP GCE 01:02:45
86 Martens Paul GER RAB 01:02:48
87 Missaglia Gabriele ITA SDA 01:04:24
88 Efimkin Alexander RUS QST 01:05:08
89 Seeldrayers Kevin BEL QST 01:08:32
90 Bailetti Paolo ITA LPR 01:08:41
91 Millar David GBR TSL 01:09:50
92 Gasparotto Enrico ITA BAR 01:10:06
93 Bazayev Assan KAZ AST 01:10:32
94 Vanotti Alessandro ITA LIQ 01:10:59
95 Ermeti Giairo ITA LPR 01:12:40
96 Sonnery Blaise FRA ALM 01:13:16
97 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 01:16:09
98 Wegelius Charles GBR LIQ 01:17:46
99 Rabon Frantisek CZE THR 01:20:48
100 Jegou Lilian FRA FDJ 01:21:29
101 Engels Addy NED QST 01:24:00
102 Lund Anders DEN CSC 01:24:42
103 Capecchi Eros ITA SDV 01:24:51
104 Mccartney Jason USA CSC 01:25:32
105 Mangel Laurent FRA ALM 01:25:42
106 Klimov Serguei RUS TCS 01:28:37
107 Hondo Danilo GER SDA 01:28:46
108 Hansen Adam AUS THR 01:29:04
109 Lowik Gerben NED RAB 01:29:24
110 Baldato Fabio ITA LAM 01:32:29
111 Galparsoro Dionisio ESP EUS 01:32:46
112 Benitez Roman Jose A. ESP SDV 01:33:07
113 Devenyns Dries BEL SIL 01:35:00
114 Bossoni Paolo ITA LAM 01:35:03
115 Thomas Geraint GBR BAR 01:35:31
116 Landaluze Inigo ESP EUS 01:35:41
117 Usov Alexandre BLR ALM 01:36:07
118 Perget Mathieu FRA GCE 01:37:05
119 Trussov Nikolai RUS TCS 01:37:23
120 Krivtsov Yuriy UKR ALM 01:38:18
121 Facci Mauro ITA QST 01:39:25
122 Buffaz Mickael FRA COF 01:39:26
123 De Groot Bram NED RAB 01:39:50
124 Cummings Steven GBR BAR 01:40:04
125 Roy Jérémy FRA FDJ 01:40:30
126 Rousseau Nicolas FRA ALM 01:41:20
127 Levarlet Guillaume FRA FDJ 01:42:04
128 Schwab Hubert SUI QST 01:42:27
129 Chiarini Riccardo ITA LPR 01:43:31
130 Cataldo Dario ITA LIQ 01:44:50
131 Scognamiglio Carlo ITA BAR 01:46:03
132 Perez Cuapio Julio Alberto MEX CSF 01:46:35
133 Fothen Thomas GER GST 01:46:42
134 Hartmann Nicolas FRA COF 01:46:49
135 Monier Damien FRA COF 01:48:13
136 Jurco Matej SVK MRM 01:50:50
137 Serov Alexander RUS TCS 01:51:08
138 Carlstrom Kjell FIN LIQ 01:51:22
139 Martin Tony GER THR 01:51:29
140 Ongarato Alberto ITA MRM 01:52:38
141 Illiano Raffaele ITA SDA 01:55:16
142 Krauss Sven GER GST 01:57:39
143 Dean Julian NZL TSL 01:58:54
144 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 02:02:41
145 Huguet Yann FRA COF 02:03:13
146 Hayman Mathew AUS RAB 02:04:36
147 Wiggins Bradley GBR THR 02:07:22
148 Greipel André GER THR 02:07:39
149 Gudsell Timothy NZL FDJ 02:12:02
150 Gates Nick AUS SIL 02:13:06
151 Agirre Josu ESP EUS 02:15:36
152 Ignatiev Mikhail RUS TCS 02:15:37
153 Pate Danny USA TSL 02:15:52
154 Aperribay Lander ESP EUS 02:22:15
155 Belohvosciks Raivis LAT SDV 02:25:32
156 Sutton Christopher AUS TSL 02:25:42
157 Eichler Markus GER MRM 02:35:28
158 Capelli Ermanno ITA SDV 02:43:40

Mountains (Verde)
1 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 62
2 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 28
3 Bertolini Alessandro ITA SDA 20
4 Bosisio Gabriele ITA LPR 19
5 Cardenas Felix Rafael COL BAR 16
6 Lastras Garcia Pablo ESP GCE 12
7 Baliani Fortunato ITA CSF 10
8 Rodriguez Oliver Joaquin ESP GCE 10
9 Rujano Guillen José VEN GCE 6
10 Dall'antonia Tiziano ITA CSF 6

Points (Ciclamino)
1 Bennati Daniele ITA LIQ 144
2 Cavendish Mark GBR THR 86
3 Bettini Paolo ITA QST 84
4 Ricco' Riccardo ITA SDV 77
5 Zabel Erik GER MRM 66
6 Sella Emanuele ITA CSF 57
7 Pellizotti Franco ITA LIQ 51
8 Di Luca Danilo ITA LPR 45
9 Kiryienka Vasil BLR TCS 43
10 Contador Alberto ESP AST 39