Today and tomorrow it’s the moment of truth in the Giro d’Italia with two mountain stages and summit finishes. Riders who want to do well today have to smoothly get over three climb of first category in the last ninety kilometres of the long stage from Gravellona Toce to Cervinia (236 km).

Maxime Monfort and Jurgen Van den Broeck are eleventh and twelfth. Manager Marc Sergeant hopes they can still get in top ten.

“It was our ambition before the Giro to win a stage and be in the top ten of the GC. We won a stage, although a second one would have been welcome as well and for that top ten place I still expect something from Maxime or Jurgen in the next two stages. When you see that Hesjedal gets a result by racing aggressively, I want that too. It doesn’t matter if they are eleventh or fourteenth," he said.