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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


Jungels has had a wardrobe change today.
Instead of his white, blue and red Luxembourg national road champion's jersey he is wearing his blue, red and white Luxembourg national time trial champion's skinsuit.
I almost didn't recognise him.
The Shark is in the water...
Bob Jungels rolls down the ramp. A fantastic time triallist having a (by his standards) lousy Giro. Can he turn it round today with a barnstorming blast around Verona.
De Gendt was on a good day, he's slotted into that third place spot, knocking Ludvigsson out of the podium places.
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Ion Izagirre, another likely top tenner today is now out on the course.
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Interesting! Thomas de Gendt, who has seemed decidedly out of sorts the last few days - actively taking to Twitter to play down his chances on a couple of occasions - has posted a very good intermediate split time.
He's fourth fastest at the moment and riding well.
If you don't already, do give Chad Haga a follow on Twitter. He does a fantastic daily summary of the stage called #GiroOversimplified.
Here's what he had to say about yesterday's eventful day in the Dollies.
Jay McCarthy has just overtaken his minute man, Tosh van der Sande.
Van der Sande lives near Javea in the Alicante province of Spain. He once told me off for not wearing a helmet while I was out riding on the roads down there. He was on a moutnain bike and I a road bike, but he still went past me then quite a lot quicker than McCarthy passed him just now.
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Speaking at the finish, Haga has described the descent mid-course as "extremely technical". He also admits to having watched a video of the climb 20 times this morning on the team bus as part of his recon.
It really hammers home just how much precision and preparation is required to excel in the modern peloton.
Haga also described the potential stage win as "redemption" for his Team Sunweb squad.
Tobias Ludvigsson crosses the line in third place. He dug deep, but just fell a little short.
Luke Durbridge also finishes, but his time isn't good enough to trouble the top three.
Haga rode a negative split to beat Campenaert's time, passing through the intermediate six seconds down on the Belgian the overhauling his lead on the back end of the course.
If Ludvigsson can ride a similar way, going faster in the second half of his effort, he might yet be on for a new best time.
Still wouldn't bet on him, though.
Here's Sho Hatsuyama receiving his black jersey for finishing dead last on GC, the Giro's equivalent to the lanterne rouge.
Ludvigsson is going well and has just passed Danilo Wyss of Dimension Data. The Swede looks good as he stands up out of the saddle to drive on towards the summit of the climb.
He's gone through the time check 11 seconds down. That's down, but not out of contention!
Tobias Ludvigsson wins my 'skinsuit of the Giro' award. Unfortunately, that's probably the only thing he'll be winning today...
He's a handy rider, but this is a world-class field and that Haga time is scorching.
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Wow! Big time from Chad Haga and he goes into the lead...
The American has delivered for his team on the final day of the race. That's very impressive of him managing to dislodge Campenaerts. New fastest time is 22:07.
With another hopeful for today, Jos van Emden, coming over the line in fifth place, I can't see that Haga time being bested for a little while.
Campenaerts sets the new fastest time at the finish of 22:11.
That last 500m is really unpleasant, with cobblestones to the line causing the riders to bounce around all over the bike. Not particularly aero, and also not particularly kind on the undercarriage - one would imagine.
Here's Sir Wiggo on the importance of those aero gainz earlier today in our live broadcast.
Jos van Emden is keeping it cool in the finish zone.
This is going to be very close for Campenaerts. He's all over the bike now as he enters the last kilometre.
And as we expected, Campenaerts sets a new best intermediate split time of 14:08.
He's looking a little ginger on the descent from the climb.
Campenaerts is apparently keeping it steady at 500 watts. That's huge. I can do 500 watts for about 11 seconds before being violently sick and he's managing it with apparent ease.
Jasha Sutterlin has just rolled over the line with a new second best time. He really gave it the big hoon at the end there.
Campenaerts is tucked up tight as he grinds into the incline. He's a little bit over halfway through the course with less than 9km to go. We should get an intermediate time check on him any moment.
Chad Haga, another man with big hopes of a result today, is out on the road.
Sunweb have had a Giro to forget, this year, after losing their GC hopeful Tom Dumoulin early in the race. A win from Haga could really pep them up.
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What You Missed: Dumoulin's retirement and a brilliant finish!

Think Ackermann is enjoying himself today.