This news does not affect the morale of Visma which at the beginning of the eleventh stage immediately sends two of its men to flee, Affini and Van Dijkewith Champion who keep the group in check for 200 kilometres.
At this point the sprinters’ teams stop any escape attempts and prepare for the sprint on the long straight Francavilla al Mare after 207 km.
Jonathan Milan’s cyclamen jersey wins the sprint that burns the usual suspects Groves and Merliergood fourth place for Lonardi.
The pink jersey and cyclamen jersey are so firmly on the shoulders of Tadej Pogacar and Jonathan Milan.
The General Ranking, clearly, remains unchanged with the Slovenian ahead of Martinez, Thomas, O’Connor and Tiberi.
Stage number 12 will take the tour caravan to Fano with a section full of ups and downs that could encourage an escape.
Merlier downgraded in last place due to an irregular sprint (he closed at the Molano barriers). Here is the new order of arrival:
1) Jonathan Milan (Lidl Trek) in 4h23’18”; 2) Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) st;
3) Giovanni Lonardi (Team Polti Kometa) st; 4) Laurence Pithie (Groupama-FDJ) st; 5) Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates) st; 6) Danny Van Poppel (Bora-hansgrohe) st; 7) Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) st; 8) Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) st; 9) Stanisław Aniołkowski (Cofidis) st; 10) Enrico Zanoncello (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) st.
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