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giro stage 9

Even if it did I hardly think it would apply here. Each lap is around 15.5 km so to be lapped you would have to be between 15-20 minutes behind the peloton given an average speed of above 45 km/h for the peloton. If you were that far behind you'd be close to getting a HD as well.