Bradley Wiggins on the front for Sky, Giro d'Italia 2013, stage two TTT

Team Sky won Sunday's 17.4-kilometre Giro d'Italia team time trial from Ischia to Forio with an authoritative display, and put Italian Salvatore Puccio into the pink overall race leader's jersey in the process.

This is the young Italian's first Giro, and, as an Italian, looked both proud and surprised to adorn the iconic jersey on the podium.

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.