Giro D'Italia Betting Odds - Stage 9 Messina to Etna

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May 15th, 2011 - Giro d'Italia Stage 9: Messina - Etna

Stage 9: It’s back to the mountains for Stage 9 on May 15, and expect the participants to really push themselves in this one because there is a day off on May 16, the first of two rest days in the Giro d’Italia. This mountain stage is 159 kilometers in distance, beginning in Messina and ending in Etna.

Stage 9 results

Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank) demonstrated why he's the favourite for this year's Giro d'Italia crown with victory atop Mount Etna on an afternoon where the contenders for overall honours came out to play on the day's final climb, which proved to be a decisive test of their mettle.

Contador took the stage and the maglia rosa - which he won in the 2008 edition of this race - in stunning style with a stinging attack at 6.7km remaining in the 169km stage. He eventually put 50 seconds into his rivals by the summit finish atop one of the world's most active volcanoes.

It was reminiscent of his attack to Andorra-Arcalis in stage seven of the 2009 Tour de France - the edition of which he eventually won in Paris two weeks later - and the venom of his move must surely have the big names for the Giro title worried.

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