Giro d'Italia 2014

Voila! Live on French TV now.

^Brutal

Snow on the descent of the Gavia, looks horrific.

As much as I like to see high mountains, sometimes rider safety concerns are paramount and today looks like one of those days.

2,600m, snow, rain and no leg warmers.

Difficult to make the calculation.

jesus it looks wet

Looks filthy, poor bastards. Having a large glass of Rosso di Montalcino with the window open in sympathy

just been for a run, it was dry and sunny compared to that

From cyclingnews: "A few television stations are talking about the stage being called off or rather speculating as to whether it should happen."

Please don't - I like when you can't make the calculation (on many levels, and in my life as well).

They should really think about moving the race to July.

They should really think about moving the race to California.

ftfy.

Jokes. I love the Giro.

They should move the race to Ireland

The race is on.

Poor bastards being shelled out the back... It's going to be a long, cold, lonely 75k to the finish : /

Wasn't the Giro often this bonkers in the past?

Ha! Italian network shopping Moreno getting a wee push up the hill from the team car...

Cataldo attacks just as news filters through they are neutralising the descent

Simon Mottram crying tears of joy

Everyone else just crying.

This sounds ace.

looks parky.

It's getting farcical now. Race radio stated the race was going to be neutralised on the descent (hell, they even tweeted it on the official account), now they are saying it was the wrong information and the descent isn't neutralised.

Uran is well back, having ridden the descent thinking it was neutralised and some of the other GC riders might be a minute or more ahead.

The tweet was deleted btw. Madness.

Quintana is apparently 2 minutes ahead of Uran.

Now it appears it might be the other way around, that Uran is ahead of Quintana.