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Stage 12 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia took place on 19 May, and the race concluded on 29 May. The 2011 edition commemorated the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. The majority of the race was situated entirely within Italy – only the end of stage 13 and beginning of stage 14, in Austria, featured roads outside the home nation. Alberto Contador entered the second half of the Giro holding the race lead, and never relinquished it. Instead, he continually added to his advantage. After no stage was second place closer to him than it had been the day before. The largest chunk of time taken in one day came in stage 13, the first of three high-mountain stages that preceded the Giro's second rest day. Contador and José Rujano finished over a minute and a half ahead of the rest of the field. Contador essentially gifted the stage win to Rujano, something he also did later in the race with his former teammate Paolo Tiralongo, since the three-minute overall advantage it gave him was already close to the largest he had ever had in a Grand Tour. He did take one stage win for himself in the second half of the Giro, the uphill individual time trial to the Nevegal. Two stages in the second half of the Giro had their courses altered shortly before they were run. Stage 14 had been hyped as the debut of the Monte Crostis in the Giro d'Italia, but commissaires from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) mandated it be removed the night before Stage 14 was run. The Giro's last stage, an individual time trial in Milan, was also shortened. Stage 15 was perhaps the queen stage, containing five high-rated climbs, including the ''Cima Coppi'' (the race's tallest climb) at the Passo Giau. In the end, Contador won the Giro by over six minutes against Michele Scarponi, and also won the points classification. Roman Kreuziger and Stefano Garzelli won the other jersey awards. ==Stage 12== ;19 May 2011 – Castelfidardo to Ravenna, This was the last flat stage, and as such was seen as likely to be the last stage in which the Giro's sprinters would take the start. On easily the most straightforward day of racing at this year's Giro, four relatively unaccomplished riders formed the morning breakaway early in the race. Stef Clement, Michał Gołaś, Miguel Minguez, and Davide Ricci had just seven professional victories among them, all of them Clement's. Their time gap over the peloton was never more than four minutes, since the sprinters' teams, mainly , were vigilant not to let the prime opportunity go to waste. The catch was as controlled as the time gap had been for the stage, occurring with to go. drove the peloton into the final kilometers to set up their sprinter Mark Cavendish, effectively staying at the front of the field all day. With to go, a crash occurred about 15 riders deep in the peloton. 's sprinter Robbie Hunter lost the front wheel on his bicycle and bickered with rider Sacha Modolo who had crashed near him, even though an rider had caused the crash. While only a little more than a dozen riders actually finished together, everyone who was in the front group at the time of the crash was given the same time at the end of the stage since it took place within the stage's final . executed a very strong leadout, with Lars Bak driving from to go before pulling off for Alex Rasmussen to do the same until a little about to go. At that point, Cavendish's favored leadout man Mark Renshaw took over, leaving the Manx sprint ace to launch from to go. The sprint was tight at the finish, with 's Davide Appollonio neck-and-neck with Cavendish, but the man paid off his team's efforts by taking his second win of the Giro, making them the only team to this point to win two mass-start stages. Points leader Alessandro Petacchi was third. |} 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2011 Giro d'Italia, Stage 12 to Stage 21」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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