Well, good morning, people of the Giro d'Italya.

It's the morning of stage two of this amazing race, the hardest race in the most beautiful country in the world.

Today it's an individual time trial in and around to use a footballing cliché, the beautiful city of Tirana, the capital city of Albania, which Italy invaded in April 1939.

13.7 kilometres, pretty much flat with a little bit of a climb in the middle.

Not much to mention except for the inevitable traffic congestion that you should look out for

if you're heading to downtown Tirana this morning.

Look at him for particular for road closures in and around the Ruga Muhammad,

Ganesha, the Boulevard Gjerjee Fishta, the Boulevard Jirjeeh, the Boulevardi,

Bajram Kuri, and finally the Ruga Ibrahim Ruggava.

And while we wait for those pronunciations to just bed in a little bit, let's hear from

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Well, of course, so much to say about today's individual time trial, as there always is about individual time trials.

Will it be the day of Josh Tarling? Perhaps even...

Oh, I haven't checked the GC. I don't know whether he can take the jersey.

I suspect you probably can't, so scrap that little bit.

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