Stage 10 L'Aquila - Foligno 139km is a short, rolling stage with a pan-flat finale. Sixty kilometres from the finish in the hills, BORA-hansgrohe put the hammer down hoping to drop the pure sprinters to get their man Peter Sagan in the final run-in. With 38km to go, the sprinters who did survive the climb were Sagan, Viviani, Gaviria and Cimolai. In the end, BORA had the best lead-out and Sagan thanked his hardworking teammates with a victory.
"A very good day for us. We tried our best. A big thank you to my Bora-Hansgrohe teammates. They did a great job to drop some sprinters on the last climb. Not all of them were dropped so I still had to beat top sprinters like Gaviria and Viviani. In the end, I won and I'm very happy about that. I also needed some luck that I didn't get in previous sprint stages."
-Peter Sagan
"He made full use of that 54 ring. Like a garrotte on a rival."
-Paco Galdos. KAS Teammate
"Fuente is the greatest climber in the modern history of cycling. He's the climber that world cycling has needed since the departures of Bahamontes and Gaul and, as far as I'm concerned, he's one of the legendary true climbers, of the same stature as the greatest we've ever seen."
-Eddy Merckx. Following the 1972 Giro, when Fuentes won five stages and finished second to Merckx.
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