Usually, the second time trial of a Grand Tour is a decisive one. A three-week race will often feature a TT in the final week, or perhaps the penultimate weekend, and it will have a significant impact on the final standings. It's always there looming during the mountains as a last-minute bonus for some, and a late disruption for others.
But this year, in a Giro d'Italia that is already experimenting with the form of a Grand Tour, all the time trialling kilometres are already complete after 10 stages, leaving 10 more days for the general classification to be changed and rearranged.
