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Stage 3
A rather similar profile again, but with more 3^rd^ category climbs. The last one is located about 15 km from the finish line: short but rather steep, it may be enough to eliminate sprinters like Milan. That is if, unlike yesterday, a team attempts to eliminate him...
Trek didn't want to pull on the flat to give a chance to Milan, and the rest of the peloton didn't want to pull or attack, nobody wanted to use the work of the favorites' teams had done to keep the gap low. Therefore the breakaway made it, in spite of all its effort to fail at it.