Only the attacks of the maverick Ben Healy, defeated at the finish, save a new day of apathy of Thomas, Roglic and company. The group of favorites, with five of the top six overall, arrives calm and slowing down to the finish of Bergamo.

Only a defensive acceleration of Joao Almeida arriving in Old Bergamo, via La Boccola street and the Garibaldi Gate, the hard cobbled slope, the memory of battles of the Giro di Lombardia.