Overview
- Davide Ballerini took Stage 6 in Naples after avoiding a late pile-up on slick cobbles, and Afonso Eulálio finished safely to keep the overall leader’s pink jersey.
- Igor Arrieta claimed Stage 5 in heavy rain despite crashing and taking a wrong turn near the finish, while Eulálio moved into the race lead with a 2:51 advantage over Arrieta.
- Giulio Ciccone, who wore pink after Stage 4, dropped to sixth overall on Stage 5 as the breakaway gained more than seven minutes on the main group.
- Stage 4 delivered a lift for a battered UAE Team Emirates-XRG as Jhonatan Narváez won in Cosenza after the team lost Adam Yates, Jay Vine, and Marc Soler in a massive Stage 2 crash in Bulgaria.
- The next big shake-up looms with the summit finish on Blockhaus and a long time trial later in the week, with race favorite Jonas Vingegaard sitting 6:22 off the lead.