Buongiorno and welcome to our live coverage of stage 4 of the 2024 Giro d'Italia!
We're just under an hour away from the start of today's stage, which should bring another sprint finish.
Yesterday's third stage also brought a sprint finish, won by Tim Merlier, his second career Giro stage victory.
Merlier celebrated with a tribute to Wouter Weylandt, the Belgian QuickStep sprinter who died in a crash on stage 3 of the 2011 Giro.
Here's a look back at the results of stage 3 as well as the main classification standings.
And here's our breakdown of the updated GC standings heading into today's stage.
Under half an hour to go until the stage 4 start!
GC contenders Tadej Pogačar and Geraint Thomas were both on the attack late on in yesterday's stage, even if the pair were caught inside the final kilometre.
Five minutes until the stage kicks off...
Off we go! Into the neutral zone to start the day.
600 metres to go until the flag drops!
190km to go
Francisco Muñoz is the man on the move for the Italian team.
A couple more riders head out to chase him.
187km to go
And now Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) is on the move and gets across to make it four.
Soudal-QuickStep working at the head of the peloton 12 seconds back.
Now up to 45 seconds for the break.
179km to go
This is the break of the day.
169km to go
Lidl-Trek also on the front of the peloton along with Soudal-QuickStep.
1:30 now to the lead quartet.
Ganna now seems to be dropping back from the breakaway.
It's raining and the small move isn't likely to make the finish, plus the peloton aren't letting them get very far up the road.
162km to go
Now the peloton has slowed up and the gap is up to 2:30.
The road is steadily rising during this first half of the stage towards the high point of the third-category climb, the Colle del Melogno.
A look at the official profile of today's stage.
150km to go
Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious) is out of the Giro d'Italia.
He joins Bram Welten (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) in heading home, with the Dutchman a DNS today.
Robert Gesink (Visma-Lease A Bike), Simon Carr (EF Education-EasyPost) and E