Groves wins as Cavendish crashes over line - after dog chaos

Mark Cavendish (left successful achromatic helmet) collided with Andrea Vendrame metres from the enactment earlier skidding implicit the decorativeness connected his backside

Australia's Kaden Groves won a chaotic raid-sodden signifier 5 of the Giro d'Italia featuring galore crashes, including 1 caused by a dog.

World champion Remco Evenepoel crashed twice, the archetypal aft a canine wandered connected to the roadworthy successful beforehand of him.

A clang hampered Andreas Leknessund but helium was capable to clasp the wide lead.

Remco Evenepoel ended up connected the pavement pursuing the clang caused by a canine moving crossed the way of his Soudal-Quick Step teammate Davide Ballerini

Heavy rainfall made conditions treacherous and meant overmuch of the 171km thrust from Atripalda to Salerno was astatine a dependable pace, though that did not forestall a fig of pile-ups.

The archetypal clang aft 19km had thing to bash with the rain, however, with a canine moving crossed Davide Ballerini's path, causing him and Soudal-Quick Step team-mate Evenepoel to travel disconnected their bikes.

World champion Evenepoel, who led the contention up until Tuesday's 4th signifier to Lago Laceno, was attended to by the contention doc earlier being helped backmost connected to his motorcycle and giving a thumbs up to the tv cameras arsenic helium and Ballerini resumed riding.

There were past 3 crashes successful the last 10km arsenic the riders geared up for the wide sprint finish, with eventual victor Groves among those to autumn connected the last crook with 7km to go.

Race person Leknessund of Norway and Slovenia's Primoz Roglic were among those held up by the crash.

Belgian Evenepoel past went down for a 2nd clip with 2km remaining, looking visibility frustrated arsenic helium got backmost onto his motorcycle and angrily gesticulating to the operator of his squad car, appearing to suggest a rider whitethorn person chopped crossed his path.

Then, arsenic the riders pushed for the enactment Cavendish collided with Italian Andrea Vendrame, who smacked into the advertizing hoardings, portion Cavendish fell and skidded implicit the line.

Italy's Jonathan Milan finished 2nd up of Denmark's Mads Petersen, with Alberto Dainese,another Italian, successful third.

"It's a imagination to win," said Groves, who had 2 third-place finishes successful the opening 4 stages.

"Everything was going good but past I crashed astatine the roundabout with 7 kilometres to go. Luckily I enactment my concatenation backmost connected accelerated capable and the radical came backmost unneurotic but it wasn't precise clean, we each got lost.

"The guys did a bully occupation earlier and past luckily I was bully capable to beryllium successful presumption and had the legs to pb retired and win."