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The group at the front consists of around 30 riders, including Lauren Dickson, a FDJ United-SUEZ team mate of Demi Vollering. The British rider started the day 1.38 behind Van der Breggen, in sixth place.
Having her in the break puts hige pressure on Van der Breggen and her SD Worx squad.
We’re not yet sure whether she has been dropped or whether a huge breakaway has been allowed to form.
Anna van der Breggen is onto something in the leading part of the peloton, instead the maglia rosa is 55 seconds behind, with a group of around 30 at the front.
Isabella Holmgren was the first of the Lidl-Trek riders home yesterday. and is the best young rider in this year’s race.
The Canadian rider is “nervous but excited” about her GC role.
130km to go
Still all together as we approach the top of the unclassified climb. It’s almost 30km from the top unit they reach the bottom of the Passo Tre Croci and, while it’s a gentle false flat, it could be the perfect place for a break to go clear.
But what about yesterday, the stage 4 time trial certainly rearranged the general classification
Visma-Lease a Bike are on the front of the bunch. They’ll be looking to the ir young French climber, Marion Bunel for a big day. She put time into Van der Breggen on the final day of the Vuelta Femenina, on the slopes of l’Angliru. There’s nothing quite so brutal today, though.
After such a tumultuous day yesterday, who’s wearing which jersey?
Major shake-up to overall standings after tough uphill TT with big time gaps.
We’re at the base of PIeve di Cadore with a complete peloton.
140km to go
Still al together, but with attacks in the bunch.
First up is the unclassified climb to Pieve di Cadore is 5km at 5.4%. We’ll be there in just over 10km.
The first categorised climb is Passo Tre Croci is the day’s first climb, but that begins in Cortina d’Ampezzo after 48.3km, but the riders will have climbed over 900m by then.
Here we go, the attacks have started. There’ll many trying to get away for the chance of victory or for the breakaway’s sake, but Van der Breggen’s GC rivals might want to pressure her and the SD Worx-Protime team, weakened by the loss of two riders. They start with only five in total, remember.
The start town of Longarone has hosted four starts of the men’s Giro d’Italia, but the town has a tragic past. In 1963 the village was destroyed in the Vajont Dam disaster and almost 2,000 people were killed.
The stage is a proper beast, starting with two 1st category climbs before two ascents of the same 3rd category climb. The Passo Trio Croci comes first, the Passo di Sant’Antonio next, then a loop including the double ascent of the Costa climb.
Here we go then, we’re uphill from the line today, though only after 6.4km of neutral.
A maximum forecast temperature of 21º today, and while there’ll be some sunshine, there’s a weather alert for storms too. Anything could happen!
Race leader, Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime) heads to sign on ahead of the stage.
Barbara Malcotti is Human Powered Health’s climbing hope for today’s stage, but first some stretching.
They’re in Longarone for today’s stage, and on the cards is 146km to Santo Stefano di Cadore. We’re still in north eastern Italy, in the Alps, east of Bolzano. We’ll pass through the ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo.
Another GC shake-up expected on mountainous day with 3,400 metres of elevation.
Niamg Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek) isn’t the only rider warming up before the stage.
While people are rightly looking at Saturday’s eighth stage and its iconic climbs, with 3,330m of vertical ascent, today has more climbing than any other stage this week. We roll out at 12:55CET.
Good morning, and welcome again to the Cyclingnews coverage of stage 5 of the Giro d’Italia Women.