«I didn't have time to dry my hair, I straightened it and did a bad job at that» (Giada Borgato, RAI commentator, has her own way of saying she's not thinking straight).

Movistar clarification: in some stages Enric Mas wore the women's team kit by mistake and not because he's planning a gender change.

First problems for Afonso Eulalio: after declaring to Repubblica «I only have fun if I suffer», upon returning to his hotel room he found a bed of nails in his room.

RCS organization clarifies that in Massa a time trial was raced and not a road stage due to a technical choice and not to avoid a Massa crash.

RAI informs that the pink stain in the bottom right of the screen during the Giro Mattina broadcast is a quirk of the director and has nothing to do with respecting gender quotas.

The Giro management clarifies that some teams in recent days were housed in crumbling hotels due to lack of alternatives and not as a survival test.

Report from Giuseppe Figini, valuable collaborator of tuttobiciweb: the miniature bikes in the Massa museum are scale models and not frames for cyclists under five feet tall.

«He had to take the curves a bit on eggshells» (Stefano Rizzato, RAI race commentary, explains that sometimes riders choose solutions different from asphalt).