DI LUCA MOVES AHEAD IN SPAIN

Italian Danilo Di Luca may have had a terrible summer in France, but over the border in Spain it?s a very different story.

The pintsized Liquigas rider blasted his way to a convincing stage win at the summit of the Covatilla climb, the first mountain top finish of this year?s Vuelta, when he outsprinted little-known young Slovenian Janez Brajkovic of the Discovery Channel team.

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