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.

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."

Cummings on home favourite Vincenzo Nibali's chances of defending his title: "Nibali is a dark horse. If he performs to the maximum and Dumoulin has a bad day, he could do it."

Team Dimension Data rider and two-time Tour de France stage winner Steve Cummings has joined us in Milan today and just had this to say: "Dumoulin has ridden a calculated race and this stage is for him. If he produces what he is capable of, he will win."

Our roving reporter Matt Stephens is currently doing a Facebook Live on the BORA-hansgrohe bus. Take a look here:

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Ilnur Zakarin is currently 1min 15sec off the lead in fifth, but the Russian is a handy time-triallist and is a decent bet for a podium finish.

It's a hot and dry day for the riders, with temperatures getting up as high as 31C at around the time the stage will be finishing. The absence of rain will be a big relief all round because wet road surfaces would have raised nerves on what is already an extremely tense day.

Here's the top 10 in the general classification going into today's stage:

A lot of the riders have been out riding the course this morning. Here was Vincenzo Nibali getting to grips with the Monza motor racing circuit, where the time trial starts:

Here's our preview of today's time trial:

Here's a comparison of Dumoulin and Quintana's recent performances in time trials:

The riders go out in reverse general classification order, with the first man down the start ramp being Guiseppe Fonzi (Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia) at 12.45pm BST. The race favourites start at the following times: Bob Jungels 3.32pm, Adam Yates 3.35pm, Bauke Mollema 3.38pm, Domenico Pozzovivo 3.41pm, Ilnur Zakarin 3.44pm, Tom Dumoulin 3.47pm, Thibaut Pinot 3.50pm, Vincenzo Nibali 3.53pm, Nairo Quintana 3.56pm (all BST).

Here's the profile of the course:

Today’s course is flat and contains long sections of straight road, so it’s perfect for time-trial expert Dumoulin and a nightmare for a light climber such as Quintana. On paper, therefore, Dumoulin looks favourite to not only win the stage, but also win the Giro d’Italia overall. The Dutchman comprehensively defeated all the other riders in the top four in stage 10’s 39.8km time trial, and if all four perform to the same level again, Dumoulin will beat Quintana by 2min 7sec, Nibali by 1min 33sec and Pinot by 1min 59sec, which would comfortably hand him overall victory.

Thibaut Pinot won the final mountain stage of this year’s race yesterday to leave the top five in the general classification going into today's decider looking like this: 1 Nairo Quintana, 2 Vincenzo Nibali +39sec, 3 Thibaut Pinot +43sec, 4 Tom Dumoulin +53sec, 5 Ilnur Zakarin +1min 15sec.