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It is a beautiful roll out for the riders in a very sunny Emilia Romagna. However, the forecast for the final climb says we may have temperatures at around 4 degrees Celsius!
Jerseys and other Giro competitions after stage 8:
Pink – Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious)
Purple – Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep)
Blue – Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)
White – Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious)*
Int sprint – Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF-7 Sabre)
Fuga – Diego Pablo Sevilla (Polti-Visit Malta)
Red Bull KM – Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF-7 Sabre)
Team – Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
The riders have started the neutral zone and are roughly 10 minutes away from racing.
We are expecting a chaotic start with multiple riders battling to get into the break of the day. Visma-Lease a Bike will have to be on high alert so riders like Enric Mas (Movistar), Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto-Intermarche), Markel Beloki (EF Education-EasyPost), Egan Bernal (Netcompany-Ineos) and others don’t get in the break of the day. And, if they do, manage the gap sufficiently to let them go all the way but to also not gain massively on their Danish leader as well as dropping pink jersey Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious) along the way,
The riders will start the neutralised section in about 5 minutes.
The riders are due to start racing after the neutral zone at 12:50 local time.
It is very likely that we will see a breakaway succeed today for one simple reason. Jonas Vingegaard will not want to ride the ITT on Tuesday in the blue KOM skinsuit. He leads the classification by one point over Diego Pablo Sevilla (Polti-Visit Malta) thanks to his win on Blockhaus.
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The Corno alle Scale is 10.8km long, but with the Quesciola climb coming right before, there’s actually a good 21km of climbing to finish the stage.
Here’s what is on the cards today:
We’ll be here all day with all the updates and actions from what is set to be an exciting day of racing, the last one before the first (proper) rest day.
Good morning and welcome to Cyclingnews’ live coverage of stage 9 of the Giro d’Italia!