Giro d'Italia Stage 5: Praia a Mare > Benevento, 233kms

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

The Giro climbs its only classified ascent of the day after 35-kilometres...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Gazprom's Alexandre Foliforov leads the early escape with Oss, Brutt, and Txurruka...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

The peloton climbs above a typical hilltop town in Basilicata...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Txurruka is keeping the escape about five-minutes in front...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Marcel Kittel looks quietly composed as he thinks of the expected sprint finish into Benevento...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Alejandro Valverde is hardly to be seen in this Giro so far - a sure sign he's looking at a top-three finish in Turin.

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Big things are expected of Cannondale's Rigoberto Uran, a man who nearly won the Giro for Quick-Step...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Tom Dumoulin is looking a bit tired today, or is it just the muggy weather..?

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Demolition, sales, spare parts - surely not for this Giro peloton..?!

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

A Cannondale helper has his hands full with Nathan Brown, Davide Formolo and Alberto Bettiol wanted to be fed...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Jelle Vanendert has been chasing for an hour already - and there are three hours still to go..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Dumoulin is looking only slightly better on a long ascent with 50-kilometres to go...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Lotto has put its overall leader Tim Wellens on the front with the gap still over three-minutes...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Brutt takes the escape into the last 25-kilometres, with their lead finally down to catching-distance...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Lars Bak is now Lotto's chaser, and he seems to have done the job too...

Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Gianfranco Zilioli has crashed with two others - they're in the ditch, he's not..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Jack Bobridge needs help to get out of the ditch, even though he appears unhurt...

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Three doctors combine to pull Bobridge up on to the road - he'll finish the stage..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Less a sprint, more an attack, there's a Lotto rider way out in front today..!

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Giro d'Italia - Stage 5

Andre Greipel wins by 15-metres, but he has his Lotto teammates to thank for all their chasing...