Not exactly a flat race, either. 5 times up the "Piccolo Stelvio", so named, for it's 5, extremely tight hairpin bends.
Garmin and HTC had to chase and ran out of train. Both Farrar and Cavendish left more or less on their own.
Huge crash behind, on the final, right angled bend, a km out, as the peloton compressed.
A group of about 25 contested, mano-a-mano. Farrar and Bennati out of it.
Cavendish simply didn't have the kick.
UCI ranking points for the 600km of these three, one day semi classics, with 160+ fields and tough parcours? Nil.