Morning all. It’s that rarest of things today, a time trial that could actually be exciting! 17km around Verona, with the podium places in the general classification still to be decided... not to mention 2019’s final stage win.
Giro d'Italia
Stage 21 | Flat | Men | 02.06.2019
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Updated 02/06/2019 at 15:48 GMT
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Majka and Roglic leapfrog Lopez and Landa respectively, but otherwise the GC looks a lot like it did this time yesterday.
Haga gets top spot. Campenaerts was in second, with Thomas de Gendt a surprise third place.
Emotional scenes here in the arena at the heart of Verona. Carapaz salutes the crowds, looking pretty exhausted. He put a lot into that final TT effort.
The Ecuadorian fans inside are going nuts.
Richard Carapaz has won the 2019 Giro d'Italia.
Chad Haga gets the stage.
Carapaz is under the flamme rouge. He has a comfortable margin of 2:20 to cover this last 1,000m.
He has time to enjoy this.
Nibali almost knocks the phone from the hand of a fan as he just scrapes by the barriers on one of the final turns.
He kicks on for the finish line, over the cobbles and into the arena in Verona. That secures his second place in the GC, and he actually beat Roglic' time.
He is met with an enormous roar by the tifosi.
Nibali is nearing the finish line. He might just be in contention for the stage win, a remarkable performance from the Italian superstar.
Landa loses third place by eight seconds.
Landa is in the final 500m
Landa is 28 seconds down. That's going to lose him the third spot.
Roglic is home in 22:33. That means Landa needs to beat 22:56 to keep his podium.
That's a big underperformance in a discipline that is supposed to be Roglic' specialty.
Roglic has blown up a bit here. Many expected him to win this and he's rolled home in ninth.
Poor old Chad Haga is watching on tenterhooks in the finish zone as Roglic heads into the cobbles of the finishing 400m.
Nibali, meanwhile, has actually gained two seconds on Roglic at the intermediate time check. Not enough to make any waves in the GC, but impressive stuff from his Nibz.
Landa is performing incredibly here. A lot of pundits predicted massive time losses for the Basque rider from Movistar, but he's making Roglic work for every second.
Lopez crosses the finish line in a time of 23:27. That's going to see him slip down a place in GC, I believe.
We're now hearing that Roglic is closing that gap to Landa. He's gained 20-ish seconds so far.
Majka was looking faster than Yates at the intermediate and he has brought it home in 22:47. That's good enough to defend his seventh place. We'll see what sort of time Lopez finishes with - Majka may yet leap up one.
Roglic has come through the intermediate and he is 15 seconds down on Chad Haga's leading time. That's great news for the American's hopes of a stage win.
Yates rolls it in. He'll be happy to move on from this Giro.
23:07 for the Brit.