Peter Sagan won the sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico.
A horrid 209km stage which started and finished in Porto Sant'Elpidio, close to the Adriactic seas, and included three climbs of the Sant'Elpido a Mare, two ninety kilometres laps and a 28km circuit around Porto Sant'Elpidio.
At least twenty riders including Mark Cavendish and Peter Kennaugh had abandoned by the time Fabien Cancellara (RadioShack), Nocentini, Montaguti and Dumoulin (Ag2r), Boom (Blanco), Cunego (Lampre-Merida), Visconti and Intxausti (Movistar Team), Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Vicioso (Katusha), Impey and O'Grady (Orica-Greenedge), Finetto (Vini Fantini), Sprick (Argos-Shimano), and Selvaggi (Vacansoleil-DCM) launched the main break of the day.
The list of riders abandoning continued to grow with Andy Schleck withdrawing as the sixteen had a lead of four minutes after 145km of racing on a wet day.
Dumoulin and Cunego got away as the group started to fracture across the road.
Cunego was first over the Sant'Elpido a Mare for the second time to ensure that he won the Green Jersey with the five points.
The duo were brought back with 32kms to go and Sanchez, Sagan, Nibali and Intxausti led the race.
Nibali, who was looking at the general classification, was away with Sagan with ten kilometres to go due to Chris Froome being fifty two seconds down the road and Contado 29 seconds.
The final four kilometres were flat and Nibali led Peter Sagan who went with 200ms to go win in a time of 5.45.17 ahead of Nibali and Rodriquez.
Contador's group finished 43 seconds down with Froome 48 seconds down meaning that Vincenzo Nibali was the new race leader going into tomorrow's final stage.
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