After winning his seventh of fourteen stages on his Pinarello Dogma AK61 magnesium frame bike, Fassa Bortolo's Alessandro Petacchi proudly said
"Today's task, which I've achieved with the help of my teammates, marks a little piece of cycling history. Now I've won 22 stages in less than a year and seven in this Giro, like Saronni did 24 years ago."