Following the evil stage over the Passo di Gavia, won by Ivan Basso, several riders were fined and slapped with time penalties for taking "assistance" during the stage - these included last years Asian road race champion and GC contender Aleandre Vinokourov (taking a feed in the last 20km) and our own favourite Yukiya Arashiro, who was of many riders fined 50 Swiss Francs and docked ten seconds - lets hope he had the cash at hand!
Meantime poor young Chris Froome from team Sky got sent home with a letter for his team manager - for taking a wee tow from a motorbike; ahh, and they think they had it tough - by heck, back in the 80's men were men, they rode in the snow and ate nails for breakfast ... as you can see
