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Fighting to the Line
After all of the hard work by Omega Pharma Quickstep, Meersman came up just short of the prize to Team Cannondale's Elia Vivianni. Viviani spent this year's Giro d'Italia coming up just short to Mark Cavendish, so you can't begrudge him his first win of the season. It surprised me how much of the peloton came to the line together with so many categorized climbs in today's stage, but then that is the Dauphine, not the flattest race of the season.