11:48 AM

In the meantime, in Spain . . .

The Vuelta a España has simply began and there is a five-man breakaway off up the highway on the 171km run from Irún to Arrate.

Vuelta a España 2020, stage one profile — Giro d’Italia 2020 route: The right way to watch stay TV protection and comply with the WorldTour

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11:43 AM

110km to go

Deceuninck-Fast Step who’ve race chief Joao Almeida inside their ranks, are using on the entrance of the peloton. There may be slightly below 1,000 kilometres nonetheless to race on this yr’s Giro and over 20,000 metres of vertical elevation to sort out. Whereas the younger Portuguese and his compatriots could also be beginning to dream of taking house the maglia rosa, most expect a giant shake-up within the basic classification over the following few days.

11:30 AM

Because it stands . . .

Because the second longest stage on this yr’s race, at this time was an early begin and after a comparatively leisurely opening 15kms, Ruben Guerreiro (EF Professional Biking) attacked on the decrease slopes of the the primary climb of the day, the Madonnina del Domm. The transfer prompted an enormous posse of riders to chase him down, leading to a 28-man breakaway forming on the 10km-long class two climb.

This is that breakaway in full . . .

Enrico Battaglin (Bahrain McLaren), Julien Bernard (Trek-Segafredo), François Bidard (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Alessandro Bisolti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), Manuele Boaro (Astana), Geoffrey Bouchard (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Jefferson Cepeda (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), Valerio Conti (UAE Staff Emirates), Matteo Fabbro (Bora-Hansgrohe), Fabio Felline (Astana), Ruben Guerreiro (EF Professional Biking), Kamil Malecki (CCC), Ben O’Connor (NTT), Stefano Oldani (Lotto-Soudal), Pawel Poljanski (Bora-Hansgrohe), Salvatore Puccio (Ineos Grenadiers), Joey Rosskopf (CCC), Lorenzo Rota (Vini Zabu-Brado-KTM), Einer Rubio (Movistar), Sergio Samitier (Movistar), Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers), Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane), Jan Tratnik (Bahrain McLaren), Andrea Vendrae (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Giovanni Visconti (Vini Zabu-Brado-KTM), Larry Warbasse (Ag2r-La Mondiale), James Whelan (EF Professional Biking) and Filippo Zana (Bardiani-CSF-Faizane). With slightly below 120km of the stage remaining, they lead the peloton by 7min 55sec.

By the way, Guerreiro was first over the Madonnina del Domm so as to add 18 factors to his tally within the mountains classification forward of Giovanni Visconti, the chief in that individual competitors. Visconti, nonetheless, received the higher of Guerreiro on the second climb. Could possibly be an honest battle between these two at this time atop the following 4 categorized climbs.

11:00 AM

Afternoon all

And welcome to our stay rolling weblog from stage 16 on the Giro d’Italia, the 228-kilometre run from Udine to San Daniele del Friuli. As you may see from the beneath profile at this time’s stage is a punchy little introduction to the third and closing week of the race.

Giro d’Italia 2020, stage 16 profile — Giro d’Italia 2020 route: The right way to watch stay TV protection and comply with the race levels

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Listed below are the leaders within the 4 important classifications — these awarded jerseys — the maglia rosa (pink), maglia ciclamino (cyclamen), maglia azzurra (blue) and maglia bianca (white).

The one non-starter at this time was Fernando Gaviria (UAE Staff Emirates) who was pressured to desert after testing for Covid-19 throughout the remainder day and so 137 riders rolled via KMO at 9.26am (BST). Because it stands, there’s a large 28-man breakaway main the stage. Our liveblog will get below means in earnest at 12.30pm.