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XDS-Astana claimed their second stage victory of the Giro d'Italia as Davide Ballerini outpaced Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek) on a finish in Naples ruined by a last-corner crash.

Giro organisers had eschewed the flat finish in the city of previous years, instead routing the peloton onto cobbles in the final kilometre with a sharp bend positioned 300 metres from the line.

"But when we arrived at the last corner, I saw that the first two guys had a crash. I just exited from the corner, and I heard in the radio 'Go, go, go – to the finish. There is a gap.' I just started, and then I was hoping the line would come really fast. I made it, and I'm really happy.

Beyond the battle for the stage win, there was no change in the general classification after the stage.…