Stage 6

The road

At the start

The Giro without Dumoulin

Tom Dumoulin is gone, climbing off yesterday on the road to Terracina with the knee he wrecked at Frascati; seven riders have now left the race. Roglič's lead is unchanged — thirty-five seconds on Yates, thirty-nine on Nibali — and the road south is 238 kilometres long, with a fourth-category climb at Coppa Casarinelle seventeen from San Giovanni Rotondo to give a breakaway something to hope for.

How it was won

1. 1203 km to go

   Roglič crashes, the break goes

   Thirty-five kilometres in, Roglič hits the deck and picks up road rash; his Jumbo-Visma sit up to nurse him along, and in that instant a thirteen-man move is handed the day.

2. 217 km to go

   Masnada and Conti attack

   On the long, barren Coppa Casarinelle with 28km to go, Fausto Masnada moves and only Valerio Conti follows — everyone else marks Amador and misses the split, letting the pair open thirty seconds.

3. 3At the line

   Masnada wins, Conti in pink

   The two Italians ride all the way to San Giovanni Rotondo; Masnada takes the stage while Conti, after 200km up the road, pulls on the maglia rosa.

The result