The 100th Giro d'Italia

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Quintana trails Dumoulin by 2'09" at the second checkpoint

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Domenico Pozzovivo finishes 2:18 down on Geraint Thomas. He'll just be happy to make it through this TT unscathed. This is not a style of racing he enjoys.

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Vincenzo Nibali gets out of the saddle to get over the last little lump. He's trying to make up for a poor performance on Blockhaus. Digging very deep, he stops the clock at 52:44, which is 1:18 down on Geraint Thomas. That is a good ride in that last section to limit his losses. 

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Bauke Mollema comes in at 1'28" from Thomas, ten seconds behind Nibali.

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Provisional stage leader Geraint Thomas spoke after the stage. The Welshman said he had to fight through the pain today.

"It’s one of those where you have to grit your teeth and go, and just hope the pain in the legs is more then in the arm. It was pretty much even," he told Italian television. "I threw my bottle away with about 8km to go and did it with this arm. I shouldn’t have done that because I could really feel it.

"I tried to give everything today and will take it day by day now. Hopefully I can recover in the next three days. Tomorrow is super hard but then we have two flat days, so hopefully I can recover. We’ll see how it goes. It’s the hell of a task now but we’ll see."

I really like the guy...come now Doug...Make him a big offer..sure DD cam find the bucks!

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Tom Dumoulin finishes just moments after his compatriot and smashes Thomas' time. He goes 50:37, which is 49 seconds quicker than Thomas. What a performance from Dumoulin! He should have pink, the question is by how much. 

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Just Thibaut Pinot and Nairo Quintana to finish now. Dumoulin has just blown up the general classification.

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Tommy D in pink tonight

Let's see how Team Sunweb is able to protect the maglia rosa

We are not even halfway through the Giro

Exciting ????

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Tom Dumoulin rests up on the side of the road. He looks like he gave it everything today. That was a huge effort. Dumoulin was actually worried he'd lost some of his TT ability as he focused on his climbing. Well, he's just shown that is not the case at all.  

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Quintana looks shocking on the time trial bike that seems about 3 sizes too big for him.

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Quintana looks shocking on the time trial bike that seems about 3 sizes too big for him.

His big brother's bike

 

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GREAT RIDE TOM!