Giro d’Italia stage 17 live: A day for the sprinters

65km to go

Not much change in the situation.

The breakaway currently at 2:25 up on the peloton.

It’s still the sprint teams of Movistar, DSM, Astana at the front. Bahrain not there at the moment.

81km to go

2:25 for the breakaway.

Cavendish getting something wrong with his shoe fixed. Thrilling stuff.

A nice scene featuring the peloton earlier in the stage.

93km to go

Two minutes for the peloton at the moment.

A shot of Marco Frigo stopping to greet his fan club earlier on today.

107km to go

1:27 for the break.

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Champion also leads the Fuga breakaway competition. He logged 487 out in the break before today’s stage, so that number is only going up.

Meanwhile, Milan’s four points and Gee’s three mean they lie on 180 and 121 at the top of the classification.

Eight points for Champion at the sprint takes him from 25 to 33 points. He’s three points down on Skujins now.

113km to go

Milan easily the quickest from the peloton. Derek Gee, who is actually second in the points classification now – albeit a very distant second – is next.

And now the sprinters jump out of the peloton.

Champion is near the top of the intermediate sprint classification. He’ll be closer to leader Toms Skujins after that.

A battle among the break for the sprint and it’s very close between Champion and Sevilla.

Just a few kilometres until the riders hit the intermediate sprint at Rosà.

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130km to go

1:50 for the break.

Israel-Premier Tech rider Marco Frigo, who has been a revelation of the Giro, stops at the side of the road to greet his fan club as the peloton passes his hometown of Bassano del Grappa.

His fans painted MARCO FRIGO FANS CLUB along the road in large letters and there were plenty of photos and cheers for the 23-year-old.

Even the riders are bored…

142km to go

1:40 is the time gap.

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Sprint teams control the peloton.

152km to go

1:45 for the breakaway now.

The gap is coming down as the sprint squads control the race.

159km to go

2:30 for the break.

The peloton is holding the break’s lead under three minutes.

The break of the day.

170km to go

DSM, Astana, Bahrain, Movistar heading up the peloton.

Champion, Quarterman, Sevilla, Leysen in the break.

175km to go

Gabburo caught by the peloton.

2:40 to the break.

A decent start. That has chewed up about half an hour of time. Now to watch the breakaway roll along for four hours.

180km to go

Astana, Bahrain, Movistar at the front of the peloton.

Over two minutes to the leading four now.

They don’t get away, though.

More attacks flowing now. Matthews and Milan are off the front!

185km to go

Davide Gabburo (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) alone in the chase.

189km to go

Another Bardiani attack.

37 seconds to the breakaway quartet.

Lukas Pöstlberger (Jayco-AlUla) pushing on at the front.

193km to go

A mostly downhill start to the day aside from a few lumps at Roncegno and Villa Agnedo.

Bardiani still attacking the peloton.

Now the TV producer is showing us a lake during probably the only exciting part of the race for the next four hours. Great choice.

Henok Mulubrhan (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè) trying to leave the peloton too.

Thomas Champion (Cofidis), Charlie Quarterman (Corratec-Selle Italia), Diego Sevilla (Eolo-Kometa), Senne Leysen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) are away.

Four riders away already.

Attacks from the start.

197km to go

Through kilometre 0 and racing is underway.

Cavendish stops to fix a problem with his saddle.

The riders roll out to start the neutral zone a few minutes late.

Milan the big favourite today.

Not many sprinters left in the race from what wasn’t a super strong sprint field to start with…

Jonathan Milan, Pascal Ackermann, Fernando Gaviria, Michael Matthews, Mark Cavendish, Marius Mayrhofer, Stefano Oldani, Vincenzo Albanese, Arne Marit, Simone Consonni.

No climbs today. Two sprints. A full 300 metres of altitude gain.

A short 2.6km neutral zone to start things off today.

Just over 10 minutes to the start of the stage…

Just two men left for Soudal-QuickStep at the Giro… Pieter Serry and Ilan Van Wilder.

No non-starters today announced yet. 128 riders left in the Giro.

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A reminder of the GC standings and stage 16 results here.

Riders are signing on ahead of the stage start.

The map and profile of today’s stage. It doesn’t look very exciting, does it…

Just over an hour to go until the start in Pergine Valsugana.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 17 of the Giro d’Italia.