Lopez hoping to limit Giro d'Italia time trial losses to two minutes

Colombia’s Miguel Angel López (Astana Pro Team) rolls the question around for a fair length of time before answering, but eventually he replies: "I hope it won’t be more than two minutes."

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.