As told to James Startt by Marco Pinotti

May 15, 2008
Paris, France:

Marco Pinotti is the Italian time trial champion and one of two Italians on Columbia-High Road's Giro d'Italia team. After stage 7 we talked to him about his team's dominant performance thus far at the Giro.

Well I just got back to the hotel after stage seven and am relaxing with my massage. Wow! That was a pretty crazy finish. The stage itself was not so hard, but the finish, with a hard climb and crazy descent in the wind in rain, was pretty wild.

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