Jhonatan NARVAEZ. 10 with honors. He's a regular on the podium, with steady and consistent frequency: every four days he achieves his daily goal of winning. After claiming the fourth and eighth stages, today he makes it three, adding the eleventh. Matxin calls the shots, Jonathan steps up: I'll take this one! And when he goes, nobody catches him anymore. If he happens to have someone like Mas on his wheel who stays there, there's nothing he can do in the sprint. His third personal victory in this Giro, his fifth career win on the pink roads, the fourth for Mauro Gianetti's team in this race, which can celebrate and does celebrate their 33rd success of the season. Numbers worthy of the world's number one team, despite losing three key riders all at once early on, but the five who remain are far from bit players—they don't disappear: they command the stage to applause.

Enric MAS. 8. So far he's only tasted bitterness and disappointment, today he goes searching for something to give him a bit of spark. He races brilliantly, but has the misfortune of running into perhaps the rider in best form at the moment: he has to settle for second.

Diego ULISSI. 9. At almost 37 years old he looks like a kid. He doesn't give up anything and tries his best all the way through today as well. Sure, those two are flying, but Diego isn't going slowly either. He finishes just seconds behind them (11) and takes home a third place that tells us this rider is a testament to seriousness and professionalism and still has something to say.

Chris HARPER. 7. The 31-year-old Australian rides an aggressive race, but in the end can't hold the wheel of Narvaez and Mas.

Aleksander VLASOV. 7. The Red Bull rider tries to get a result, but in the end it's already an achievement to ride at the front.

Christian SCARONI. 8. It's his home stage and with Diego Ulissi he could have played his cards better. Instead the 28-year-old from Brescia gets taken down by Van Eetvelt on the descent of Bracco, a crash that compromises a race he finishes magnificently. Stoic!

Ludovico CRESCIOLI. 8. The 22-year-old Tuscan from Polti VisitMalta has class and temperament and shows it to everyone today. He throws himself into the mix with Mattia Bais (11th) and brings home a 7th place of great substance. Giovanni Ellena and Ivan Basso will certainly be proud of their young riders.

Simone GUALDI. 7. Another very interesting young rider, the 21-year-old from Bergamo, Alzano Lombardo. He decides to throw himself into the fray and comes out far from dazed.

Warren BARGUIL. 6. The 34-year-old Frenchman from Picnic tries to raise his head, but remains well underwater.

Andrea RACCAGNI NOVIERO. 7. He races on his home roads, arrives in his Chiavari: he'd like to do something more, but what he does today is far from little.

Martin MARCELLUSI. 6.5. The Bardiani Csf 7 Saber rider enters the breakaway that shapes the race. At -81km he goes clear with Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE) and Enric Mas (Movistar), Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Intermarchè) and Chris Harper (Pinarello Q36.5), Jasper Stuyven (Soudal Quick-Step), Nico Denz and Aleksandr Vlasov (Red Bull Bora), Diego Ulissi and Alberto Bettiol (XDS Astana), Mattia Bais and Ludovico Crescioli (Polti VisitMalta), Warren Barguil (Picnic PostNL) and Filippo Zana (Soudal Quick-Step), Christian Scaroni (XDS Astana), Brieuc Rolland (Groupama FDJ) and Alessandro Tonelli (Polti VisitMalta). From this leading group, everything takes shape.

Giulio CICCONE. 6. The Abruzzese from Lidl-Trek is champing at the bit and eager to be seen, especially eager to give battle and is the first to attempt the day's attack. Behind him come Jonas Rutsch (Lotto Intermarchè), Chris Hamilton (Picnic PostNL), Ivan Garcia Cortina (Movistar), Nickolas Zukowsky (Pinarello Q36.5), Luca Mozzato (Tudor), Koen Bouwman (Jayco AlUla), Jasper Stuyven (Soudal Quick-Step), Alessandro Pinarello (NSN), Christian Scaroni and Davide Ballerini (XDS Astana), Axel Huens, Johan Jacobs and Cyril Barthe (Groupama FDJ). They are the first daredevils, the first gladiators, but they are soon replaced.

Davide BALLERINI. 1/7. A stage won on the roads of Naples, today retirement after a terrible crash that likely costs him a fractured thumb on his right hand. Damnation!