Faced with the announcements of the favorites that the explosion is coming, the despair of the fans grows for the calculation and the lack of punch of Geraint Thomas and Primoz Roglic. Only two seconds separate them at the head of the classification still headed by the maglia rosa borrowed from Bruno Armirail.
"It will be a Giro of controlled explosions," Thomas said on the rest day. "I want to contest the race, not attack just to put on a show," he added.