Weening tumbles down Giro standings in rain-soaked day into Florence

After a solid first week at the Giro d'Italia, where he spent the majority of the time inside the top-20 and moved as high as ninth at the end of Stage 7 Pieter Weening appeared to be on track to deliver Orica GreenEdge a rare result in the general classification standings in just their fourth grand tour appearance. However, trailing in 8:42 behind the day's winner Maxim Belkov (Katusha) at the end of Stage 9 has seen those GC hopes dashed.