Geraint Thomas, Primoz Roglic, Alessandro Covi and Pavel Sivakov all injured in accidents. German Pascal Ackermann wins the Tortona sprint ahead of Jonathan Milan and Mark Cavendish.
Eight more abandonments due to Covid – four of them from Soudal, Evenepoel's team – and Tao Geoghegan Hart, fallen, motionless, sideways on the wet asphalt, knees bent. "Tao has missed a great opportunity to win the Giro again [theer from London], Hackney has already won the 2020 Giro"