Giro d’Italia 2025 LIVE: Time-trial start times and latest updates from stage 2 in Tirana

Until now, 23 Riders have crossed the finish line and Ethan Hayter, twice a British trial champion, has set the early rhythm with a time of 16 minutes 21 seconds. There is still a lot of fire power to come and knock him out of first place …

Stage two of 2025 Tour D’Italia has begun, with the first riders now in the course of 13.7 km, which is soaked in the sun this afternoon.

The Spanish Mikel Landa holds a fractured in a clash with about 5 km to go in yesterday’s opening stage.

By announcing that he had abandoned the event, Landa Soudal-Quickstep team said: “Mikel was immediately tasks to the hospital, where exams and computed tomography revealed that he had suffered a stable fracture of the vertebra TH 11.

“This will require Mikel to remain in a stable lie position for a prolonged period of time. It will remain in the hospital during the night, before an additional evaluation and a plan for this return home will be carried out.”

Niklas Markl (Picnic Postnl) will set the stage shortly before 12.25 PM BST. Here are some riders to see:

124 2:28 pm Tar, Joshua ineos grenadiers

154 14:58:00 Ayuso, Juan UAE Emirates Team – XRG

156 15:00 McNulty, Brandon Uae Team Emirates – XRG

161 3:05 pm Vacek, Mathias Lidl – Trek

168 15:14:00 Roglic, Primoz Red Bull – Bora – Hansgrohe

178 15:44:00 Ask, Thomas Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

181 15:53:00 by Aert, Wout Team Visma | Lend a bicycle

182 15:56:00 Pedersen, Mads Lidl – Trek

It was the second victory in the career stage of Pedersen in the turn, since he also won in Naples two years ago.

Pedersen has also won two stages in the Tour de France, and three in the Spanish Tour. The organizers of Giro d’Italia said he will be the first Denmark pilot to wear the pink shirt.

“To top it up with the pink shirt, it is absolutely incredible,” said Pedersen. “It’s my first leader’s shirt on a great tour.”

The Venezuelan rider Orluis Aular crossed third.

Pedersen, who won the world title in 2019, surpassed Van Aert by half a wheel in the mountainous stage of 160 kilometers (99 miles) from Durres to Tirana, which had a flat finish.

“We had a clear plan today and the team was really surprising to put that tempo on the climb. That was exactly what we wanted,” Pedersen said about how his Lidl-Trek team put himself in the last third category climb. “We did a plan and fulfill the plan.”

Today’s profile is relatively flat, with a category four hill to hurt the legs in the middle of the short course of 13.7 km.

Here is a look at today’s route around the Albanian capital:

Or the other Maglia Rosa Contents The young Italian Antonio Tiberi should be well located to benefit from the time gaps to some of the weakest lists, while for the tastes of Richard Carapaz, Einer Rubio, veterans Romain Bardet and Mikel Landa or Dam Giulio Giulio Giulio and Dam Giulio and Dam.

Within the Eau Emirates-XRG Hierarquy team we can also see something: Ayuso and Adam Yates are in co-linges theory and both pedigree, but the British can find him sliding by the song Jerqueja if his order.

Of the specialists, Tarling, the European champion of Time Essays, Edoardo Affini, and the Czech couple or Josef Cerny and Mathias Vacek could be strange for a victory on stage.

Stage two of 2025 Tour of Italy gives GC contenders who have an early opportunity to throw the glove to their rivals, with a brief counterreloj in Tirana, Albania.

Mads Pedersen took the leader’s pink shirt with the victory at the Sprint at the end of stage one, but could find one of GC’s main favorites on a second day in the Albanian capital.

It is a large and direct stage, with an increase in category four on the way halfway, which could be sufficient to discourage pure specialists of the trial as the specialists in Joshua Tarling Putargh Putargh Putargh Putargh of Ineos Grenadier, favor the GC runners who are strong in a TT.

Nor is it particularly technical, with the exception of some sharp corners and turns in U: Hero in wide roads and swept through urban expansion, with a final 3 km end and a 500 m 500m sprint of 500m dead to the line. What should be is fast.

With only 13.7 km there should be no significant gaps among the great favorites, but with less serious mountain clashes in this race, particularly, Ferwer Summit ends normal every second will count. Primoz Roglic and Juan Ayuso are the best against the clock of the main favorites and this could be a drag between the couple to take honors at the beginning of the first major tour of the year.