Rally Amsterdam - Verona

As I turn now for the first time in 2010 at the Giro in and see what I see? A mud fight - in the truest sense of the word. What the Italians have chosen for there again? Was that intentional or was the asphalt had been gambled away somehow? Alexander Vinokourov came to this assessment: "Come una dura Roubaix" - the hell of Tuscany?