Aside from the overall race battle, Mark Cavendish was able to avenge his close defeat in the points classification at the 2012 race - where he lost the red jersey by a single point to Team Katusha rider Joaquim Rodríguez - by taking the classification on the final day in Brescia. The Omega Pharma-Quick-Step rider's victory in Brescia, his fifth of the race - he achieved three in the second half of the race, with other victories on stages 12 and 13 - allowed him to become only the fifth rider to complete a clean sweep of points classification victories at Grand Tours. Giovanni Visconti was another rider to take multiple victories during the second half of the race, taking solo victories at the Col du Galibier and into Vicenza. The second half of the race was also adversely affected by snow, with three stages being re-routed and a fourth having to be cancelled due to heavy snow and treacherous conditions; the cancelled stage was the first due to weather since the 1989 Giro d'Italia.