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140km to go
Three minutes between break and peloton currently.
The riders are out of San Benedetto del Tronto now and heading uphill.
1:50 for the three breakaway riders at the moment.
Mattia Bais (Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli) leaves the race after being caught in that crash.
153km to go
Meanwhile, Manuele Boaro (Astana Qazaqstan), Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF-Faizanè) and Jorge Arcas (Movistar) are on the attack currently.
Davide Martinelli (Astana) and Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) were among the other riders caught up in the crash.
Several riders involved and all but one get going again.
Magnus Cort (EF-EasyPost) is out of the race.
157km to go
The riders have started stage 7 now but there’s been a crash in the peloton early on.
Today the riders start in San Benedetto del Tronto before heading out into the hills to the west of the coastal town. After 80 kilometres of racing they’ll be back in the town for five laps of a pan-flat circuit to finish the race.
Along with Geoghegan Hart, Jhonatan Restrepo (Drone Hopper-Androni Giocattoli) and Enric Mas (Movistar) are also out of the race today. 146 starters.
The jersey wearers at the start – Arensman, Vingegaard, Pogačar, and Simmons.
Of course, Arensman and Vingegaard are just warming the white and ciclamino jerseys for Pogačar, who leads both classifications.
Tao Geoghegan Hart is out of the race today, suffering with a respiratory infection. He finished 11 minutes down yesterday, dropping from seventh to 27th on GC.
UPDATE: Unfortunately @taogeoghegan will not take to the start of #TirrenoAdriatico today due to feeling unwell with a respiratory infection. Rest up Tao and see you back at the races soon! pic.twitter.com/MtxAumkIe3March 13, 2022
The riders are rolling out to start the stage now.
👀Chi proverà a vincere la Tappa?🙋@Giacomonizzolo “Io!”👀Who’s going to try and win the stage?🙋@Giacomonizzolo “I am!”#TirrenoAdriatico pic.twitter.com/SS1orTbW6RMarch 13, 2022
Stage 3 winner Caleb Ewan might have already left the race along with Peter Sagan, Nacer Bouhanni and Elia Viviani, but there are plenty of sprint contenders left to contest the stage today.
Look out for Tim Merlier, Mark Cavendish, Olav Kooij, Arnaud Démare, Pascal Ackermann, Phil Bauhaus, Kaden Groves, Alberto Dainese, Matteo Moschetti later on today…
Our report on yesterday’s stage, which saw Tadej Pogačar solo to victory from 16 kilometres out on Monte Carpegna.
Pogacar takes control of Tirreno-Adriatico on Monte Carpegna
The neutral zone today is 5.9 kilometres long so the proper start of stage 7 will come in around 20 minutes’ time.
The riders are currently signing in ahead of today’s stage. They’re set to roll out of San Benedetto del Tronto in 10 minutes’ time.
We’ve usually seen a closing time trial in San Benedetto del Tronto but this year organisers RCS Sport switched things up and put the TT at the start of the race.
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today’s final stage of Tirreno-Adriatico, which should be one for the sprinters in San Benedetto del Tronto.
