Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage 13 of the Giro d'Italia - a pan-flat (or should that be pizza-flat?) 167km ride from Reggio Emilia to Tortona, and a final day for the sprinters do battle before most of them pack their bags and head for the airport.

Brilliant stuff from Gaviria, who is just on fire in this Giro.

The most impressive thing about that win was the way Gaviria came from so far back. His lead-out man Max Richeze, after clashing with Ewan, left him just enough space to come through by the barriers and then power past the Irishman for the win - a fourth on the race.

So Gaviria makes it four, Bennett shakes his head for second, and Jasper Stuyven is third.

Victory for Fernando Gaviria! Bennett looked so be there but the Colombian found something extra.

A Bora rider has gone early... Bennett has three others... Ewan gets a nudge... Gaviria comes around him...

Now here comes Greipel... Gaviria, Bennett and Ewan too. It's party time.

Greipel is really boxed in and has competely lost his Lotto team-mates. Orica-Scott have a man on the front, but then he peels off.

It's Bora vs Quick-Step now, with Lotto Soudal a bit disrupted and yet to come together.

Pozzato's odd attack comes to an end, but he's now leading the pack for his team-mate Mareczko. Well, he was for a few metres.

Here come Sam Bennett's Bora-Hansgrohe's train - and he's looking to build on his three third-place finishes. And then there's an attack by Pippo Pozzato!

Cannondale-Drapac and Astana - oddly and inexplicably - are on the front of the pack, which is all strung out after yet another huge roundabout.

The peloton is using the whole width of the road with Thibaut Pinot's FDJ team on the right and Tom Dumoulin's Sunweb team on the left - and everyone else in between. The pace starts to rise again.

The calm before the storm... the peloton is still rolling along at a slightly reduced pace, fully packed and not strung out. There must be a strong headwind, concludes Sean Kelly. Either that or the go-slow protest continues...

Omar Fraile, the maglia azzurra, is fighting back on after a mechanical. It's Sunweb, Movistar and Trek-Segafredo who are still controlling the tempo on the front as the pack approaches Tortona...

Remember, Italy are still without a win on this Giro - and the man most likely to change that is Jakub Mareczko, of Wilier-Selle Italia, who has twice finished runner-up to Fernando Gaviria, today's favourite to win a fourth stage.

There's a bit of argy bargy between Wilier-Selle Italia and CCC Sprandi Polkowice but it's just handbags at dawn. It's still quite windy but the pace is slowing a little.

The streamlined pack, which is being driven by the Trek team-mates of Jasper Stuyven, zip through the narrow cobbled streets of Voghera. Bahrain Merida and Movistar are near the front with both Quintana and Nibali prominent. Team Sunweb looked to have been caught out, but the maglia rosa of Tom Dumoulin finally appears.

A series of roundabouts has caused a number of riders to be tailed off. The pace is much higher now and that gruppetto is about 20 seconds back.

It's over for the three escapees; cue the frantic finale we've all been expecting. There's so much at stake for the teams of the sprinters so expect the pace to be very high and tensions to rise.

Wilier-Selle Italia are still leading the chase but the likes of Trek-Segafredo, FDJ, Movistar, Katusha and Lotto Soudal are all near the front. It's almost curtains for the three escapees, who only have 25 seconds to play with now.