Giro d’Italia stage 3 LIVE: Jonathan Milan, Paul Magnier and Tobias Lund Andresen braced for a bunch sprint rematch

Still the break’s lead remains at about 2:30. That might change when they start the official climb .

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Jonathan Milan. We might get some idea of how well he’s sprinting come this intermediate sprint. So far at this Giro, he hasn’t quite looked at his best.

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A reminder of the current points classification rankings:

1 Magnier 55

The gap’s up a bit, to 2:50, as the leaders press on along these foothills of the upcoming climb.

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One team that managed to avoid disaster yesterday was Netcompany Ineos. Their riders avoided the crash, and came through the stage looking in a strong position, with Egan Bernal already up to third overall after smartly taking some easy bonus seconds on offer.

The gap’s holding steady, at about two and a half minutes.

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The front of the peloton, being led by Magnier’s Soudal teammate.

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Arnaud De Lie is talking to his team car. On paper he’d be a top candidate for the stage in a sprint today, but really struggled on the climbs yesterday, so will be up against it to survive today’s.

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The road is going ever so slightly uphill, which it will continue to do so gradually until the onset of the official Borovets Pass, in about 35km’s time.

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The gap’s come down again, from about three minutes back to 2:25.

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One rider who was involved in the crash, but who survived it to live another day at this Giro, was Derek Gee-West. Though held up by the incident, he didn’t seem too badly affected by it, based on the way he powered past riders while trying to rejoin the peloton. Ultimately he didn’t quite manage to, but retains his GC hopes by limiting his losses to one minute.

The gap’s gone up to three minutes. The same three riders are sharing turns at the front of the peloton, but have slowed down a bit.

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Another victim of yesterday’s crash was Bahrain-Victorious’ leader Santiago Buitrago, who suffered concussion after his fall.

Together, the work of that trio in the peloton has brought the breakaway trio’s lead down a little, to 2:20.

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And an XDS Astana rider is too, doing their bit to defend Silva’s pink jerssey.

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The Unibet Rose Rockets rider is now contributing to the pace-setting.

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Thomas Silva, enjoying what has so far been a very comfortable day in the pink jersey.

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Soudal are being more stingy than teams from previous stages, bringing the gap down to about 2:30 and keeping it pegged there.

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Soudal’s Bastiaens is doing all the work for now, but there’s a Unibet Rose Rockets rider behind hum. That suggests they believe Dylan Groenewegen can survive the climb to compete for the sprint today.

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Soudal-QuickStep have stepped up, putting Ayco Bastiaens at the front. They’re showing confidence that their man Paul Magnier can repeat his stage 1 sprint success.

And now it’s up to 3:45, as nobody in the peloton has taken responsibility to control it.

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The gap’s up to over three minutes.

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XDS Astana have placed two riders at the front of the peloton, but they’re not exactly setting a pace yet, allowing the gap to continue to grow.

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The leading trio already have a lead of 1:45, and that looks set to continue to grow.

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It’s very relaxed in the peloton, where riders are chatting with, rather than attacking, one another.

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No more attacks were forthcoming, and it seems we have our break of the day already.

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So far so familiar – Diego Pablo Sevilla and his Polti VisitMalta teammate Alessandro Tonelli have attacked with Bardiani’s Manuele Tarozzi attacked right from the gun, and have been allowed up the road.

And we’re off!

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We’re about to find out as the flag is about to be waved.

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So far at this Giro there have been no fights to get into the day’s break – will that be different today, now that the GC rankings have begun to take some shape, with many riders now well down on time already?

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Race leader Guillermo Thomas Silva at the start.

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Plovdiv is hosting today’s stage, and the riders are moving through its throngs of crowds now for the unofficial start.

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Adam Yates, battered and bruised at the end of yesterday’s stage. Remarkably, this is the first of the 17 Grand Tours he has competed in that he has failed to finish.

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Yates’ UAE team were easily the most ill-affected from that crash. Yates joins fellow climbers Jay Vine and Marc Soler in retiring, while their hopefuls for the stage yesterday, Antonio Morgado and Jhonatan Narváez, also went down. Today will be about recovering and regrouping, before they reassess how to approach this race with their depleted roster.