
The prize for the most hard-fought and perhaps least likely victory of the Giro d'Italia this year will surely go to the winner of stage five, Igor Arrieta.
The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider romped to the team's second win at the end of a very wet, very hilly 203km day to Potenza. Arrieta's win, which was the team's second in two days, came after a two-up breakaway that had been in turns celebratory, heart-breaking, and physically painful.