Fredrik LAVIK. 10 with honors. A masterful move ahead of Maestri. A cunning blow by four riders who honor the Milan stage like never before. You expect the sprinters, but instead the breakaway riders arrive and they're faster than them. The 29-year-old Norwegian from Uno-X Mobility gives his team a prestigious victory. A victory that makes history and adds to the palmares. After the stage at Tirreno (5th stage: Ascoli-Pergola), he takes home a weighty victory.

Mirco MAESTRI. 10. Sure, he loses, but he races brilliantly, as do his companions in adventure. A stage for attackers and these four horsemen of the apocalypse give their all to try to change the story of a stage that seemed already written. Instead, they rewrite it, in fine fashion.

Martin MARCELLUSI. 10. The rider from Lazio with Bardiani CSF 7 Saber is among the absolute protagonists of this stage. He wants to honor a stage that is also the city that gave birth to the historic bicycle brand that equips his team. De Rosa today shows coverings with a pink profile in homage to the race and the Milanese character (it was born here by the will of the immense Ugo De Rosa, in 1953) of this prestigious bicycle brand that is still known and appreciated worldwide.

Mattia BAIS. 10. He sacrifices himself for Mirco Maestri, gives his soul for the team objective (Polti VisitMalta). He does everything he needs to do to try to dream: don't wake him up.

Paul MAGNIER. 5. He would deserve an 8 for the intermediate sprint he wins, for the sprint of the beaten riders he wins, for the cyclamen jersey he goes to reclaim, but he wakes up late: he and his team. They underestimate those four guys who are no joke, they go all out like an Olympic quartet. Suicidal complacency, his and that of all the sprinters, that one is truly Olympic.

Jonathan MILAN. 5. He doesn't even manage to contest the sprint because his Lidl-Trek isn't there, he's left alone with Simone Consonni trying to catch up with the breakaway riders. But wasn't this supposed to be a team built for Jonny?

Jonas VINGEGAARD. 4. As the pink jersey wearer, therefore the Lider Maximo of the "Corsa Rosa," he goes to speak with Rossella Bonfanti (race organization assistant) and the race jury president (the Spaniard Tortajada Villaroya). For one reason or another, our race must always suffer some whim or affront, because otherwise they're not happy. The Dane works to ensure that the neutralization is not just at 5 km (already this was a concession, since the regulations normally call for 3 km), but at 16, one lap before the sprint. I would just like to ask these gentlemen if it ever crossed their minds to ask the same thing from the organizers across the Alps for the Paris stage. Not last year's, which provided and provides as this year the passages over Montmartre, but the classic Champs-Élysées circuit, among cobblestones and roundabouts. Canceling times 16 km from the finish is simply madness. There are no reasons to do it, in fact, there's a sacred reason to honor the race: like it or not, this is still the Giro d'Italia. Are Vingegaard and company afraid of getting hurt? They should change professions.

MILAN. 10. Five years after the moral capital welcomes the Giro Rosa with atmospheric warmth equal to the warmth of the athletes who pour into the streets. A crowd befitting great occasions (in this edition of the Giro, so far, we can say the highest point) through the streets of Milan. Warmth and celebration for the race that was born here (1909), but which politics struggles to remember. Today, perhaps, they got a refresher course. Who knows when the Giro will return: in five years? Let's hope not.