 Acqua & Sapone rider Dario Andriotto set the early time to beat . After a while , Yuriy Krivtsov bested his time . Several different riders in succession then posted successively ( but , in the first few cases , marginally ) better times than the best time that had come before them . Alessandro Bertolini , David Millar , Marco Pinotti , Giovanni Visconti , Bradley Wiggins , and Stefano Garzelli were all briefly the stage leader after they crossed the finish line . Bertolini in particular was stage leader for about three minutes , as Millar started just behind him and barely beat his time . 
