Hello and welcome to another quiet day on the Giro d'Italia. Given the monotonous tedium of this oh-so-boring 101st edition of La Corsa Rosa, not much will happen in this 214km Stage 20 from Susa to Cervinia, which features the final three big climbs of the race and will decide once and for all the outcome of the maglia rosa.

We're onto the Cat.1 Col St Pantaleon: 16.1km at 7.2% with a maximum ramp of 10% near the summit. The 2015 Giro used this climb in that stage won by Aru and it was that man Gio Visconti, who is in the break, who crested the summit in pole position.

The gap is up to 6'30" as Mohoric approaches the second of three climbs...

Of course, there'll be no repeat of that today following the Italian champion's withdrawal from the race yesterday. Aru has been out of sorts since his move to UAE Team Emirates and had dropped to 29th place before throwing in the towel. Before Aru, the last winner at Cervinia was the Costa Rican Andrey Amador, who became the first Central American to win a stage on a Grand Tour in 2012, the year Ryder Hesjedal took the maglia rosa.

Giovanni Visconti is back with the main breakaway, which now trails his Italian team-mate by 30 seconds. The last rider to win at Cervinia is Fabio Aru, who bounced back in the 2011 Giro with back-to-back victories in the Alps, the first of which came at Cervinia in stage 19 followed by Sestiere one day later. The Astana rider was 6'05" down on Alberto Contador before his win in Cervinia, which saw him move into second and cut the deficit to 4'37". One day later, his attack on the Colle delle Finestre and subsequent win saw him move to 2'02" down on Contador...

Mohoric now has 20 seconds on the other escapees and 5'40" on the main pack, who are about to sweep up Krists Neilands, one of the initial members of that 27-man break.

No surprises here: Matej Mohoric has zipped clear on the descent. A lot was made of Froome's downhill skills yesterday, but the Slovenian youngster is on another level when it comes to hugging the top tube and going hell to leather.

Astana and Sky lead the pack over the summit of the first of three climbs with a deficit of 5'32" on the nine leaders.

Giulio Ciccone (Bardiani-CSF) crests the summit ahead of LottoNL-Jumbo duo Koen Bouwman and Robert Gesink to take the maximum 35pts. So his raid on the maglia azzurra is well and truly on.

Ciccone is driving the pace as the break reaches the final kilometre of the climb. The Italian trails Froome by 71pts in the KOM standings so if he gets maximum points over the first two climbs that would be 70pts. So he'd need just the one more point at the finish and he's be in blue. Easier said than done - but not as impossible as what Froome pulled off yesterday.

We're hearing there could be possible rainstorms at the finish in Cervinia when the riders arrive. For now it's still very sunny - especially here on the Col Tsecore. Mohoric has managed to join the leaders so we have nine left out ahead...

Despite the hefty tempo being set by Astana - with Sky tucked in just behind - the break has managed to extend its lead to 5'15" over the pack as they near the summit of this first climb. There's eight ahead now with Mohoric slightly distanced.

Mohoric has been reeled in and he'll slip into an eight-man break that's missing his team-mate Gio Visconti, who has just been dropped... Koen Bouwman sets the tempo - the blonde-haired Dutchman came close to winning the sodden stage to Montevergine in the opening week, when Richard Carapaz zipped clear to pass him in the last kilometre. Brambilla, Woods, Nieve, Gesnik, Ciccone, Grossschartner and Lammertink are still there.

Lone leader Mohoric is approaching the hardest part of the climb where it ramps up to 15%. It's here where the GC riders may think about putting in some attacks. Remember, Froome only leads Dumoulin by 40 seconds and he has struggled before in this race, especially after putting in big efforts the day before.

With Gesink pulling on the front and the gap stabalised to around 4'40" there's an attack by Matej Mohoric of Bahrain Merida. The Slovenian has already won stage 10 and now goes for a long-pop, perhaps paving the way for his team-mate Gio Visconti later on.

Astana's pace-setting has reduced the main pack to just 50 riders - if that. They're picking off remnants of the break one by one. Poor Simon Yates - he's in the blue jersey today but gone are any chances of him winning that competition as a softener after losing the pink yesterday. He came within three days of winning the Giro d'Italia - and surely he'll be back (he's only 25 after all) - but you worry for his morale going forward, in the same way as Steven Kruijswijk, who himself imploded in pink two years ago.

And it's happening again: Simon Yates's Alpine horror show continues as he's dropped on the first climb of the day.

The leaders are whittled down to Gavazzi, Visconti, Grosschartner, Ciccone, Woods, Nieve, Bouwman, Lammertink, Gesink, Brambilla, Kreuziger, Mohoric and Conti.

The official profile of today's first climb, the Col Tsecore.

Kreuziger, Visconti, Conti and Mohoric drive the pace in the thinning break while it's the Astana army of Miguel Angel Lopez on the front of the peloton behind, 4'18" in arrears.

Chris Froome may be in pink but it's been a rocky road to get there - via two crashes, a win on the Zoncolan and many salbutamol-related jibes.