Stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women looked like it would be almost certain to end in a mass sprint, but as things turned out, it reordered the GC as UAE Team ADQ and SD Worx-Protime caused a split in crosswinds with 53km to go and then kept going all-in to the finish.
In the end, the peloton finished 1:42 minutes behind a group of 16 riders that included maglia rosa Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime), and Katrine Aalerud (Uno-X Mobility), who now occupy the first four spots in that order on GC.
“I was a bit afraid of this stage because it was expected to be a bunch sprint, and it was a very technical finale with narrow roads and a lot of corners. It’s not what I like to do in life,” Reusser said afterwards.
Van der Breggen is in third place, 1:53 down, after losing time on the stage 4 summit finish. But Reusser was still hesitant to declare it a two-rider race.
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