BENNATI LEADS ITALIAN SPRINT-FEST IN SPAIN

Tour of Spain 2007 st17 Bennati

Talented Italian fastman Daniele Bennati (Lampre) took a fast and furious dash for the line in stage 17 of the Vuelta that - as is normal in the race's third week's bunch sprints ever since the Vuelta moved to September - raised more questions about the upcoming World Championships than it did about who is fastest in Spain full stop.

Bennati is not racing the World Championships this September and you could almost see the steam coming out of his ears when Spanish television asked him about whether he thought he should have had a spot in Stuttgart.

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