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This week offers stages for climbers and GC leaders, as well as stages for punchers. Sprinters will have the last day in Rome for them (providing they can catch a breakaway of Italian contis...)

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Standings after 15 stages

General time classification

Le gap between the Dane and the Portuguese hasn't changed in a week in absolute value, just the sign has changed :-) Scaroni was 5^th^ but had to withdraw.

1. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma:
2. Afonso Eulalio 🇵🇹 Bahrain: +2′24″
3. Felix Gall 🇦🇹 Decathlon: +2′50″
4. Thymen Arensman 🇳🇱 Ineos: +3′03″
5. Jai Hindley Bora: +3′43″
6. Giulio Pellizzari 🇮🇹 Bora: +4′22″
7. Michael Storer 🇦🇺 Tudor: +4′46″
8. Ben O'Connor 🇦🇺 Jayco: +5′22″
9. Derek Gee 🇨🇦 Lidl-Trek: +5′41″
10. Davide Piganzoli 🇮🇹 Visma: +6′13″
11. Mathys Rondel 🇫🇷 Tudor: +6′58″

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Points classification

The podium order is still the same, but Milan, who scored only 2 points in a week, may have given up.

1. Paul Magnier 🇫🇷 Soudal-QS: 145 pts
2. Jhonatan Narvaez 🇪🇨 UAE: 131
3. Jonathan Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 78
4. Davide Ballerini 🇮🇹 Astana: 70
5. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 48

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Intermediary Sprints classification

Top-5 has the same members, but all riders from Italian teams kept on scoring while Milan didn't at all.

1. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 60
2. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 48
3. Mattia Bais 🇮🇹 polti: 44
4. Martin Marcellusi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 25
5. Jonathan Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 23

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RB Sprints classification

The classification stalled, basically only Eulalio kept on scoring.

1. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 31
2. Afonso Eulalio 🇵🇹 Bahrain: 30
3. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 22

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Mountain classification

Sevilla could only score 3 points this week.

1. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: 161
2. Jardi Van der Lee 🇳🇱 EF: 77
3. Giulio Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek: 75
4. Felix Gall 🇦🇹 Decathlon: 72
5. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 63

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Fuga classification

Only 30 km more for Sevilla this week. Often the breakaway groups were too large to count. But M. Bais managed to score more than 250 km.

1. Diego Sevilla 🇪🇸 Polti: 753
2. Mattia Bais 🇮🇹 polti: 516
3. Manuele Tarozzi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 458
4. Martin Marcellusi 🇮🇹 Bardiani: 403
5. Mirco Maestri 🇮🇹 Polti: 347

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Teams classification

2 teams are clearly above the others.

1. Visma 🇳🇱
2. RB Bora 🇩🇪 +0′24″
3. Tudor🇨🇭 +22′05″
4. Ineos 🇬🇧 +22′07″
5. Q36.5 🇨🇭 +30′58″
6. Decathlon 🇫🇷 +49′06″

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Stages

Stage 16, Tuesday 26

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

This stage exhibits a funny design: its middle part is very much for punchers, but then there is a break, and finally a long finish-on-top for pure climbers.

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Stage 17, Wednesday 27

202 km, medium difficulty (25 pts), no sprint zone, 1″ splits

A stage for breakaways, punchers and guys doing secondary/tertiary classifications.

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Stage 18, Thursday 28

171 km, low difficulty (50 pts), 3 km sprint zone, 1″ splits

It could have been a stage for sprinters, if it wasn't for this last hump just 10 km from the line. Don't be fooled by its classification as 4^th^ category, it is not not a false flat but a wall, 1 km at 12%. A few years ago, we would have said this was tailored for Alaphilippe.

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Stage 19, Friday 29

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

We find a bit of mountain here! 6 climbs including the cima Coppi of this year (Passo Giau) and almost 5000 m of elevation... For the GPM, Passo Giau will be worth 50 points, Passo Duran (the 1^st^ climb of the day) 40 pts, and the other 4, 18 points each; therefore 162 points are available.

Allowed delay will be around 55 mn, so there is very little hope to eliminate even a sick sprinter.

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Stage 20, Saturday 30

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

The last mountain stage, with a main climb done twice.

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Stage 21, Sunday 31

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

A flat stage to finish on 8 laps of the circuit in the capital city.

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