Greig Leach

The two best descenders in the front group used their skill on the wet final descent to get away from all who would bring them back (or bridge across). Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Merida) had chased down, and dropped, a number of earlier escapees. Nico Denz (Ag2r La Mondiale) was the only one who could stay with the Slovenian having caught him on the down hill stretches. Denz had but everything into staying with Mohoric, so much so that he just didn't have enough to sprint around the Italian at the line in Gualdo Tadino. With the exception of Estaban Chaves (Mitchelton-Scott), not much changed in the GC, but tomorrow looks like a day for some fireworks.