Ciao ragazzi! Welcome to live coverage of stage 1 - sorry, stage 12 - of the Giro d'Italia. After 11 days of nothing much except a few messy sprints and a couple of TT masterclasses from Primoz Roglic, we're finally into the mountains as the race goes over 1,000m for the first time with the belated first Cat.1 climb of the 102nd edition.
Giro d'Italia
Stage 12 | Mountain | Men | 23.05.2019
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Updated 23/05/2019 at 15:21 GMT
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And the new top 10 on GC with Polanc leading Roglic by over four minutes.
Today's top 10 in the stage.
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It's going to take a while for the dust to settle on this stage - the Formolo and Jungels group is only just coming home some 10'36" down. Valerio Conti, the outgoing maglia rosa, is in this group.
The Yates-Nibali-Roglic group come home about 20 seconds down so the losses to Landa and Lopez will not be huge.
Here come Landa and Lopez, who will catch and pass the escapee Conor Dunne on the home straight.
Confirmation of the podium today: Benedetti took the win ahead of Caruso and Dunbar, with Brambilla and Capecchi completing the top five. Jan Polanc crossed the line 25 seconds down in sixth place and will be the new leader of the Giro d'Italia.
Over the top go Landa and Lopez. How much time will they take back today? Not enough to put them into the picture, but enough to get a bit of momentum.
Behind it's Mollema who leds the main favourites up the cobbled climb. Carapaz, Zakarin, Sivakov, Roglic, Nibali, Yates... they're all there except Jungels and Formolo, who are missing out today.
The Lopez group is now onto the wall. He rides clear with Landa while Boaro and Cataldo drop back.
De Gendt leads the chasing group home - Polanc must have already come over the finish. The escapees are arriving in dribs and drabs.
Cataldo is now helping out Boaro in pulling Lopez - three Astana riders and a former Astana man in Landa.
We haven't seen Jan Polanc but he will surely take over the maglia rosa today.
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It was Brambilla who launched out of Capecchi's back wheel but Benedetti powered past and held off Eddie Dunbar to take the win - his first as a professional!
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Victory for Cesare Benedetti of Bora-Hansgohe!
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HAIL CAESAR!
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Caruso and Benedetti back!
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They can't dwell on it because the others are closing in...
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Tense finale here in Pinerolo as one Irish upstart looks to deny two experienced Italians. Under the flamme rouge they go...
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Over the top they go and Dunbar has joined the leaders.
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Brambilla and Capecchi have opened up a good gap on this 20% gradient but they have Dunbar in pursuit. The Irishman was caught in traffic earlier but is showing his class now.