Cavendish Wins Stage 5

Having taken a hard fall and losing a lot of skin on stage 3 the Manx Missile bounced back to win Stage 5. Cavendish edged out Australian Matthew Goss at the end of the 199km leg from Modena to Fano.

It is his second victory in this year’s Giro, putting him in the top 10 in the overall standings. On a day when his partner Peta Todd was at the finish line with thier new baby daughter Delilah he was keen to do them proud.

“As I couldn’t sleep after my fall, I wasn’t 100% and I felt tired,” Cavendish said. “However, in front of my girlfriend and my daughter i couldn’t afford to slip up.

The World Champion celebrated by taking Delilah to the podium and hoped she was proud of her dad, saying “It is the first time Delilah Grace has come to watch me race and she got to go on the podium with me. Have you noticed she is wearing pink? I am very proud of her and I want her to be proud of me.”

Stage 3 winner Matt Goss showed his respect for Cavendish by saying “Cavendish is easily the strongest rider”

Ramunas Navardauskas, of Lituania, finished in the pack to retain his pink jersey and is five seconds ahead of his Garmin-Barracuda team-mate Robert Hunter.