Sacha Modolo's hope of obtaining his first victory in the Giro d'Italia ended with 200m to the finish of the 2nd stage of the Pink Race.

Exploiting the perfect support from Ferrari and Richeze in the approach to the sprint, Modolo appeared to be in a position to achieve a top result, but a contact with Nizzolo put the end to his ambitions.

Modolo was forced to brake and so he gave up the sprint, while Viviani who began the sprint on Modolo's wheel, went on to win the stage.
The first blue-fuchsia-green rider to cross the finish line was Richeze, 57th.

Modolo explained that: "The finish suited my characteristics, so I really wanted to be protagonist and to try to achieve my first win in the Pink Race. I thank Ferrari and Richeze, who were both amazing in preparing the sprint: Roberto accelerated before the last bend in order to stretch out the bunch, then Maximiliano raised the speed in order to launch my action.

"I felt like I had good legs, but I noticed that I had probably started my sprinta little bit too early so I tried to hesitate and fall back to the sprinters that were coming from behind. Nizzolo touched me and I was forced to stop my action."

Before the bunch entered in the final circuit in Genova, a 5 riders breakaway had led the race. In Genova, two crashes split the bunch and Niemiec and Ulissi were in the second group, even if they were not involved in the incidents: they crossed the finish line with a time loss of 1'09".

Matthews is the new leader.