Good morning and welcome to the
liveblog of the
Giro d'Italia. After a chaotic and demanding transfer from Bulgaria to Italy for many of the riders and teams, the race finally returns to Italian soil today for the first stage on home roads. It will be a relatively short day in the saddle, but one that could still reveal plenty about the dynamics within the peloton and the way teams choose to approach the stage after a day of relative recovery. So stay with us throughout the day and don’t miss a single moment of the action, live and minute by minute.