Ciao ragazzi! Welcome to live coverage of stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia - an undulating 205km schlep from Bologna to Fucecchio.

The sad news from yesterday was the Japanese rider Hiroki Nishimura (Nippo-Vini Fantini) finished well out of the 30% cut-off time and was eliminated as a result. The 24-year-old was making his Grand Tour debut but finished 4'36" down on Roglic, some 43 seconds beyond the time limit.

The big test today will be the Cat.3 ascent of Montalbano which pitches up to 13% half way through. It's 5.8km with an average gradient of 6.8%.

A reminder of Primoz Roglic's ride into pink yesterday - although he had to wait the best part of three hours before it was confirmed by Simon Yates's late ITT.

And this is what the GC favourites are racing for...

If Roglic keeps the maglia rosa all the way to Verona then he'll emulate the Italian Gianni Bugno, the last man to lead the Giro from start to finish. Asked whether he will defend the jersey today, he said he was unsure this morning: "When we see how the race unfolds and what the weather does, we'll decide."

Meanwhile, in Bologna, the peloton is edging its way through the neutral zone. It's wet in the capical of Emilia-Romagna this morning so rain capes are the order of the day.

Ciccone completed the climb in a time of 6'03" - three seconds faster than the stage winner, Roglic.

Meanwhile, Giulio Ciccone of Trek-Segafredo is sporting the first blue jersey of the race after completing yesterday's climb to San Luca in the fastest time. The Italian youngster soft-pedalled over the opening flat 6km before really giving it some welly on the ascent - and his tactic paid off.

So, it's a first pink jersey for this chap, who has already won all three stage races he's entered this year. Roglic has never finished on the podium of a Grand Tour, though, so it will be interesting to see if he can sustain this form into the challenging final week.

Here was the top 10 yesterday with all of the so-called Big Five favourites - Primoz Roglic, Simon Yates, Vincenzo Nibali, Miguel Angel Lopez and Tom Dumoulin - making up the top five. You may not have predicted the order, mind. Dumoulin conceding 28 seconds was certainly unexpected, while there were some super efforts from the likes of Majka and Geoghegan Hart.

Yesterday, Slovenia’s Primoz Roglic held off Britain’s Simon Yates to take the first maglia rosa of the 102nd Giro d’Italia with a barnstorming performance in the opening 8km time trial in Bologna. The Jumbo-Visma pre-race favourite was the only rider to break the 13-minute barrier on the tough course, which concluded on the steep climb to the Santuario della Madonna di San Luca. Read all about it here...

It's far from your average straight sprint stage, what with two categorised climbs and a couple of other peaks all crammed in the second half. But a flat finish may ensure that we'll see the fast men come to the fore - just don't expect all of them to still be in the peloton...