Giro d'Italia stage 2 LIVE: The peloton hits the hills on the road to Veliko Tarnovo

Still 5:15 between break and peloton

NSN continue at the head of the peloton

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No change in the race situation after the first hour on the road

180km to go

A shot of the peloton during the early kilometres of the stage

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Nobody else has joined Maestri and Sevilla out front

The peloton controlling the time gap at 5:30 at the moment

NSN still on the front of the peloton

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Still a long way to go on today's stage and the riders are still on the flat early roads

195km to go

The duo now have 5:15 over the chasing peloton

The gap has come down a little since NSN have taken to the front

NSN are leading the peloton with Ryan Mullen 5:45 down the road

207km to go

Sevilla is in the blue jersey as mountain classification leader after going out in the break yesterday

A look at the two breakaway men

It looks like this will be the only move of the day.

The duo have four minutes currently

The peloton has let the pair go in these early kilometres of the race.

Mirco Maestri and Diego Pablo Sevilla are on the move. The pair both ride for Polti-VisitMalta.

The stage has just got underway and two riders are already on the attack.

Welcome to our live coverage of stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia.