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After the two finishes-on-top of the first Italian week, the General Classification has begun to take shape. This week in the north-west of Italy will start with a Time Trial that will comfort a few position and reorganise others. The unexpected Eulalio🇵🇹 might still keep the Pink jersey after it, and otherwise he certainly will remain on the podium.

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Standing after 9 stages

General time classification

1. Afonso Eulalio 🇵🇹 Bahrain
2. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: +2′24″
3. Felix Gall 🇦🇹 Decathlon: +2′59″
4. Jai Hindley Bora: +4′32″
5. Christian Scaroni Astana: +4′43″
6. Thymen Arensman 🇳🇱 Ineos: +5′
7. Mathys Rondel 🇫🇷 Tudor: +5′01″
8. Ben O'Connor 🇦🇺 Jayco: +5′03″
9. Giulio Pellizzari 🇮🇹 Bora: +5′15″
10. Michael Storer 🇦🇺 Tudor: +5′20″

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Points classification

Not much progress there.

1. Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 Soudal-QS: 130 pts
2. Jhonatan Narvaez 🇪🇨 UAE: 86
3. Jonathan Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 76
4. Davide Ballerini 🇮🇹 Astana: 70
5. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 48

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Intermediary Sprints classification

1. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 48
2. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 36
3. Mattia Bais 🇮🇹 polti: 24
4. Jonathan Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 23
5. Martin Marcellusi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 13

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RB Sprints classification

1. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 30
2. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 22
3. Afonso Eulalio 🇵🇹 Bahrain and 6 other riders: 15

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Mountain classification

The 2 finishes-on-top have killed the game for a good while 🙁

1. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: 111
2. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 60
3. Felix Gall 🇦🇹 Decathlon: 48
4. Einer Rubio 🇨🇴 Movistar: 22
5. Igor Arrieta 🇪🇸 UAE & Nelson Oliveira 🇵🇹 Movistar : 18

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Fuga classification

1. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 721 (!!)
2. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 368
3. Tim Naberman 🇳🇱 Picnic: 310 (who's he?)
4. Martin Marcellusi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 251
5. Mattia Bais 🇮🇹 polti: 249

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Teams classification

1. Visma 🇳🇱
2. RB Bora 🇩🇪 +1′44″
3. Movistar 🇪🇸 +8′54″
4. Astana 🇰🇿 +10′42″
5. Ineos 🇬🇧 +15′32″
6. Tudor🇨🇭 +18′47″

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Stages

Stage 10, Tuesday 19

42 km, individual Time Trial (15 pts)

It takes place at the same location as Tirreno–Adriatico introductory TT and is as flat, but it spreads over a much longer distance of the coast.

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Stage 11, Wednesday 20

195 km, medium difficulty (25 pts), 3 km sprint zone, 1″ splits

The first half of the stage may see a struggle between a breakaway and sprinters for the I.S. Then the second half is for punchers, inside a breakaway or not. Mind the extra little winding hump in the finish town.

map and profile of the finish

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Stage 12, Thursday 21

175 km, low difficulty (50 pts), 5 km sprint zone, 3″ splits

This stage was designed to have a breakaway, and then a fight with the peloton for a bunch sprint.

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Stage 13, Friday 22

189 km, medium difficulty (25 pts), 3 km sprint zone, 1″ splits

90% of this stage are flat, but there are two significant yet not very steep climbs about 20 km from the finish. Another Narvaez-compatible stage?

map and profile of the finish

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Stage 14, Saturday 23

133 km, high difficulty (15 pts), no sprint zone, 1″ splits

A pure mountain stage, which starts with a climb, ends with a climb, and present several other climbs in between, with little flat as the stage is short: 3 sections of 10, 5 and 10 km again and that's it. The percentages are not very steep, but the first and last climbs are very long.

map and profile of the finish

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Stage 15, Sunday 24

157 km, no difficulty (50 pts), 5 km sprint zone, 3″ splits

The stage to Milano, kept short and purely flat, is made for sprinters.