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I'm sure inrng did a post on this last year, but can't find it, but most Italian road surfaces are laid to cope with heat rather than rain, so are always slippy when wet.
Check out YouTube for the stage in the 98 Giro which Bartali won after all the GC favourites crashed on a wet descent. That was a cracking last half hour of a stage, very similar to today's.
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Christ, the roads have been smeared with lard today on the Giro.