First two guys to go are Dermott Walker and then favourite Sir Bradley Wiggins.

Geraint Thomas and Ian Stannard were also away for Sky

Wiggins over takes Walker with still 28km to go and sets the first time of 1h04'50. Walker comes in + 6'25 later.

Geraint also catches Thwaites of NetApp. Thomas finishes +1'42 enough for second currently and Thwaites finishes on + 6'34

Ian Stannard becomes the 3rd sky rider to overtake a NetApp rider. His and McEvoy's times were 2'55+ and 6'21+ respectively

Young Accent Jobs rider Natt Miles is on the parcours, he is able to keep his time under 5 minutes, probably good enough for a top ten.

BMC's Cummings came in provisional top 5 almost 3 minutes back, might have expected a better ride from him.

Not known for his time trial ability, recent Maglia Rosa was stone cold last, 7'27 down.

The time trial finishes on 3 very strong riders, the first of them, is Birtles (COF). Provisional he is 3rd behind Wiggins and Thomas with double national champion Alex Dowsett to go and Tour de France hopeful Chris Froome.

Dowsett (MOV) may have liked to have done better today, he didn't challenge Wiggins' time but put a respectable ride in.

Last on the course Chris Froome comes in, closely behind Alex Dowsett, surely this is the winning time!

He sets the same time as Wiggins! Who has snatched it?

With a noteable climb smack in the middle of the route this will come down not only to TT’ing skills but also to climbing and downhill skills.

*** Favourites ***
Pinotti (BMC), Malori (LAM), Catalso (SKY), Scarponi (LAM), Ballan (BMC)

** Outsiders **
Pozzovivo (ALM), Moser (CAN), Boaro (TST), Basso (CAN), Di Silvestro (EUC)

* Can’t be underestimated *
Pellizotti (AND), Quinziato (BMC), Visconti (MOV), Reda (AND), Puccio (SKY)

Reda was the first of the top 10-candidated mentioned by the bookmakers to go out today.

He is even 33 seconds faster than Quinziato at the intermediate time at the top of the climb. A disappointing time from the BMC rider I dare say, but perhaps he’s aiming for 11th?

With the first 10 riders across the intermediate it won’t be too long before we start seeing some favourites. Meanwhile this is the situation:

Capecchi cuts 3 seconds of Reda’s time at the top. With his downhill skills this might turn into something big.

Do you guys remember that guy called Ivan? Turns out he’s back cutting 45 seconds of the Movistar riders time on the climb!

With all but the number 1’s over the intermediate here is the status:
Scarponi with a very strong time here!

Pellizotti is only 4 seconds short of the Lampre-rider on the top. This is starting to get exciting!

African based MTN probably haven’t got much expectations for the ITT and good the same as neither Guido or Sbaragli are anywhere near the top times.

Nizzolo is another rider mainly using today as warm-up for the RR and with a two minute deficit on the top he’s not taking any risks on the downhill either.

Caruso is having a very good day almost catching up with Corti of Colombia 4,5 km from the finish line. He is 14 seconds down on Scarponi’s time at the intermediate and surely catching Corti will motivate him to give it his last towards the finish line?

Defending champion Cataldo is not giving up his jersey for free.

It will be close though!

Brambilla gets 5th best time.

Drago di Silvestro was more than a minute behind on the summit, but gives it his all on the descent. He is rewarded with a provisional 8th place, but that will surely deteriorate with the 6 riders still to come in.

Next up is Saxo-Tinkoff’s Boaro, who gets 6th place 37 seconds slower than Scarponi.

Pozzovivo was 11 seconds short of Cataldo on the intermediate and in finish he is 11 seconds short of Scarponi which gets him a 3rd medal for the time being.

Pinotti is to slow to affect the podium, so only two more to go.

With only Malori still to cross the line it looks like Cataldo have defended his jersey!

The Lampre riders were fast today and gets two spots on the podium.

They probably would gladly have traded both or Cataldo’s though…