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This is Bespoke, the BBC Cycling Podcast with Gareth Rees Owen.

Yes, welcome to Bespoke, the latest Giro Detalia update.

And after almost a fortnight of dull, predictable stage racing. This race has exploded.

We have a new leader in Richard Carapas

and the previous race favourite, Primos Shroglitch.

Well, he's been battered, bruised and looks a rather lonely figure.

Plenty to discuss with the Guardian' Tord of France cycling correspondent Jeremy

Whittle and the BBC cycling commentator Simon Brotherton. Jeremy, let's go in reverse and start with

today awful conditions and such a significant stage in this particular race. Absolutely. I think it was one of those days where the combination of the really, really foul weather in the mountains and also the kind of sensation that this was, this was the moment, this was the Carpe Diem moment for a lot of riders in this race that made the last hour and a half of racing so gripping

because they climbed the hugely daunting ascent of the Motorola.

The Motorola climb, which is a very, very narrow road, extremely steep,

then descended that in freezing conditions and freezing rain

into the finishing Ponto de Léno.

Giulio Chikoni of Italy won the stage from Jan Hurt.

But the big thing that happened really was that Primoz Roglitch finally slipped back and lost what could be a potentially damaging amount of time in terms of the final overall classification

because he's now over two minutes behind Richard Carapaz, who's the Ecuadorian climber who now leads the race from Vincenzo Nibili.

I tell you what, though, I think it was interesting that Roglitch did lose time today.

He was the big loser of the day, wasn't he?

But I think he could have lost a lot more than he actually did.

And I think that he still has an excellent chance of a podium finish.

That's certainly within range for him.

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