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Here's a photo of Evenepoel after his crash. He's looking for the dog.
That stage was won by Bahrain Victorious' Jonathan Milan, who is surely the favourite given the convincing nature of that win. However, Pedersen and Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) didn't have the chance to sprint that day after being caught up in the late crash.
Alpecin and Arkea also have riders up towards the front. That'll be for Kaden Groves and David Dekker, respectively, who were respectively 2nd and 3rd on the stage 2 sprint.
DSM are also working up front. They have Alberto Dainese and Marius Mayrhofer as sprint options.
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Pedersen drops back to his team car for a change of jacket. Clothing management is a key part of days like this.
As the peloton takes on this long drag, Trek-Segafredo have sent a man to the front to set the pace. They're working for Mads Pedersen, who not only loves sprints on lumpy days but loves the rain.
We're now starting the long sustained drag up to our highest point of the day, just past Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi. We'll have an intermediate sprint there, then some downhills, then the next short cat-3 climb and a long 50km run-in that's false flat down all the way to the coast, where we'll have a long finishing straight of 7km.
The lumpy terrain in the first half of today's stage made you wonder if this wouldn't be a clear cut sprint stage, and whether we might see some early drama. But this is a very slow and calm day. That's partly perhaps due to the wet roads, which have made some of these little downhills treacherous. Everyone's been in nursing mode.
Anyway, the crash seems to have come without any major consequences for now, and we crack on with the breakaway enjoying a lead of 2:30 after just over 30km of racing.
Shades of 1997 when a cat ran into the road and took out Marco Pantani, ending Il Pirata's Giro. That was in this very part of Italy, with the stage finishing in Cava de' Tirreni, just a few kilometres from where we're heading today, Salerno.
Evenepoel is back
The world champion eases his way back into the bunch. That was a very calm 'chase' indeed, and everything looks under control at the moment. Sometimes injuries only truly become apparent later on but Evenepoel took a lot of time there to get back up after the crash. He was in no hurry and it genuinely looked like his Giro hopes could be going up in smoke, but he was perhaps just making sure and collecting himself rather than rushing into an adrenaline-fuelled remount and chase when it wasn't necessary.
Evenepoel is now 45 seconds behind the bunch. It's still a super relaxed pace up there so no trouble in coming back.
Thumbs up from Remco
The camera bike draws up alongside the world champ and he gives a thumbs up. He seems to be ok.
Evenepoel has four teammates with him. Ballerini was the rider who was taken out by the dog.
Evenepoel is riding again and has his teammates around him. They're two minutes behind the bunch.
It was a stray dog that ran out into the bunch and took down an Evenepoel teammate, who went sliding along on the wet road as his bike went sliding into the bunch. It wasn't captured but Evenepoel is seen on the deck off the side of the road on the other side.
Dog in the road!
Cameras didn't pick up how that happened but we may get replays soon.
He doesn't look too injured, and the peloton is calm so he should be able to return easily enough, but he's already far behind the race now.
Finally he's back on his feet but this looks far from ideal.
He's not getting up. Wow. Is this Giro over?
The world champ and pre-race favourite is staying down.
Evenepoel crash!
So, with Pinot gone, we have a three-man breakaway on stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia
Thomas Champion (Cofidis)
Stefano Gandin (Corratec-Selle Italia)
Samuele Zoccarato (Green Project-Bardiani-CSF-Faizane)
The peloton come over the climb two minutes in arrears. This will be a twitchy downhill in these conditions.
Pinot has already backed off as they start to head downhill on roads that are soaking wet.
The breakaway reach the top of the Passo Serra and no one challenges Pinot for the points. Another nine points for his collection as he extends his lead in the blue jersey standings.
Pinot will look to take the points at the top of this climb but surely won't carry on in the break after that.
Pinot looks relaxed and is chatting with Champion. They're not ploughing on but still, the bunch are taking it so easy that the gap is going out to two minutes.
Gandin has bridged back up to the leaders to make it four out front.
The lead trio are about to hit the Passo Serra, the first of the two cat-3 climbs on today's menu. They have a minute in hand.
Thomas Champion (Cofidis) was just bridging over so he's now out in front with Pinot and the other Bardiani rider, who we've confirmed is Samuele Zoccarato.
It was Gandin for Corratec who went down first, followed by one of the Bardiani duo. Pinot just avoided it and eased to the side of the road without locking up, along with the other Bardiani rider.
Crash!
Wet roads and the lead Bardiani rider slips out on a bend.
Thibaut Pinot follows them. The Frenchman is looking for more KOM points at our early cat-3 climb.
Bardiani send two up the road along with one from Corratec.
We're off!
The flag is waved and the battle for the breakaway begins. How much of a battle will it be?
The new pink jersey Leknessund, who took the overall lead of this Giro after getting into yesterday's breakaway, drops back to his DSM team car to sort some clothing out. Once he's back in the bunch we'll be underway shortly.
This was the start line, where riders weren't bunched up but spread down the barriers sheltering under the fan's brollies.
And once again, Barry Ryan captures the complexion with his latest analysis piece.
Remco Evenepoel loses Giro d'Italia lead but not as smoothly as planned - Analysis
Before we get going, now's the time to catch up on yesterday's action, and there were some significant developments.
The riders are rolling and they're on they're way towards kilometre-zero.
Two non-starters today, and one could be key as Kaden Groves' lead-out man Ramon Sinkeldam is out with stomach problems. Corratec-Selle Italia's Valerio Conti has also had to pull out after it emerged he'd been riding with a broken pelvis.
Andreas Leknessund, the new pink jersey, has been up to the podium and now everyone has signed on for the stage. The riders have congregated on the start line and will be rolling in a few minutes. We've then got 15 minutes or so in the neutral zone before things really kick off.
It's a rainy day at the start in Atripalda - full wet weather gear for the riders - although the conditions are expected to improve later.
Hello there and welcome along to our live coverage of the Giro d'Italia. Stage 5 today, and a day that features some undulating terrain in the first half, which could give impetus to a breakaway, but is likely to come down to a bunch sprint.
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