By Shane Stokes in Palermo
Italian time trial champion Marco Pinotti held the leader's pink jersey during last year's Giro, and returns to the race motivated to ride strongly. His High Road team was third in the TTT, nine seconds behind winners Team Slipstream Chipotle H30.
"The race was good, for most of the time it was perfect," he said afterwards. "I think we just lost some seconds in the final part. We couldn't speed up too much as we could have left some riders behind."
