Nairo Quintana (Movistar) repeated his dominant 2015 performance in Tirreno-Adriatico's high mountains on Saturday, dancing away with two kilometres to go to win atop the Terminillo climb.
The Colombian timed his effort perfectly, waiting until the final five kilometres to begin pushing the pace, and then with two kilometres to go left Geraint Thomas (Sky) and Adam Yates (Orica-Scott) behind, wiping out earlier attacker Simon Spilak (Katusha) in the process.
BMC's Rohan Dennis and Tejay van Garderen could not keep pace, and the leader's jersey left the team for the first time in the race, and landed on the shoulders of the Movistar man.
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"I wasn't sure of what I could do today as I had been sick a few days ago but our tactic was to have someone ahead before I launched my attack and that's what happened with Castroviejo," Quintana said. "The advantage I have on GC now is significant. It gives me some confidence ahead of the second half of the race."
Thomas put in another valiant effort to take second on the stage, 18 seconds behind Quintana, and moved into the GC's top 10. Yates rolled in six seconds further back for third on the day.
Quintana now leads the race by 33 seconds over Yates, with Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) third at 56 seconds. Thomas managed to wipe out a large portion of the disastrous deficit of Sky's team time trial, moving into 8th overall at 1:23.
How it unfolded
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