Hello and welcome along to our live coverage of the final stage of the Giro d’Italia, which has all the makings of one of the tightest and most fascinating finales to a Grand Tour in recent history. It’s a 29.3km individual time trial from Monza to Milan, with the top four separated by just 53 seconds and the top five split by only one minute 15 seconds. We’ll take you through all the action right here.

Giro d'Italia

Stage 21 | Flat | Men | 28.05.2017

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Autodromo di MonzaMilan

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ByDan Quarrell

Updated 28/05/2017 at 16:11 GMT

14.09

Michael Hepburn (ORICA-SCOTT) had been on track for a decent time but crashed on the very last corner. That's a major warning to the favourites later on: push too hard on the twisting finale and you can easily come down.

14.07

It doesn't look like Kiryienka will be a danger to Van Emden. He was 15 seconds down on the Dutchman at the 8.8km intermediate split and had drifted to 26 seconds back at the 17.4km split. Van Emden has just been speaking to Laura Meseguer and now sees Bob Jungels and Tom Dumoulin as the two biggest threats now.

14.00

Here was Van Emden just before the finish line:

14.00

Quinziato's time has just been beaten by 27 seconds by Jos van Emden (LottoNL-Jumbo), who has gone quickest in 33min 08sec. That could well be a tough time to beat. Steve Cummings is currently in the commentary box with Rob Hatch and has tipped Van Emden to win the stage.

13.54

Quinziato still holds the fastest time.

13.52

Team Sky's Vasil Kiryienka is now out on course. The Belarusian came close to winning stage 10's time trial but saw his chances ended by a crash in the final 1km. He could challenge for the stage win again today.

13.49

Speaking of Gaviria, here he was out on course:

13.43

Pedersen missed out on taking the lead after finishing a fraction of a second down on Bialoblocki, but Manuel Quinziato (BMC Racing) has just beaten them both by setting a new fastest time of 33min 35sec.

13.43

The other two jerseys on offer this year have already been wrapped up, with Mikel Landa (Team Sky) winning the mountains classification's blue jersey and Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) winning the points classification's 'maglia ciclamino'.

13.41

As well as the race for the pink jersey, it's still all to play for in the battle for the best young rider's white jersey. Adam Yates (ORICA-SCOTT) currently holds it by 28 seconds from second-placed Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors), but Jungels is a far superior time-triallist and so the jersey could change hands today.

13.32

Here was Bialoblocki finishing:

13.31

Bialoblocki still leads, but Trek-Segafredo's Mads Pedersen went faster than the Pole at both the 8.8km and 17.4km time splits and is on course to set the fastest time.

13.21

The first rider has just arrived at the finish, and it's Marcin Bialoblocki (CCC Sprandi Polkowice) in 34min 12sec. He's a strong time-triallist, so that is a good marker for what a competitive time will be.

13.09

A little slice of history also awaits Vincenzo Nibali if he could pull off the win, because he would become the first rider to retain the title since Miguel Indurain in 1992-93.

13.07

If Dumoulin manages to clinch overall victory today, he will be the first Dutchman to win the Giro and first Dutchman to win a Grand Tour since Joop Zoetemelk won the Tour de France in 1980.

12.57

Prediction from Cannondale-Drapac boss Jonathan Vaughters:

12.55

That's a shame. Fonzi took his Fonzie jacket off.

12.52

We've now got six riders out on course, one of whom is BORA-hansgrohe sprinter Sam Bennett. He missed out on a stage win but picked up four top-three finishes in sprints, so it's been a decent Giro for the Irishman.

12.50

The Coach, Brian Smith, has had his calculator out crunching numbers to see who could win the title today. Here are his predictions:

12.45

The first rider is about to set off, and it's Giuseppe Fonzi (Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia). He's living up to his name by wearing a Fonzie-style leather jacket over his jersey on the start ramp. We can only presume he's not going to take to the course in that.

12.44

Cummings on race leader Nairo Quintana's prospects of holding on to the maglia rosa: "I just can't see him performing really well today. He could potentially lose his podium spot even."

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