{"id":581666,"date":"2026-05-13T12:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T12:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:27:08","slug":"giro-ditalia-2026-stage-5-live-italys-giulio-ciccone-defends-the-pink-jersey-on-long-tough-test-to-potenza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/581666\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d\u2019Italia 2026 Stage 5 LIVE: Italy&#8217;s Giulio Ciccone defends the pink jersey on long, tough test to Potenza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>164KM TO GO: BREAKAWAY GROWS IN SIZE<\/p>\n<p>After that counter led by Turner, a host of riders has managed to join the five riders out ahead, so we have a quality group of around a dozen riders who are clear now. They are:<\/p>\n<p>Afonso Eulalio (Bahrain-Victorious), Manuele Tarozzi (Bardiani CSF), Lorenzo Milesi and Einer Rubio (Movistar), Ben Turner (Netcompany INEOS), Gianmarco Garofoli (Soudal Quick-Step), Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike), Igor Arrieta and Jhonatan Narvaez (UAE Team Emirates), Martin Tjotta (Uno-X), Christiaan Scaroni and Guillermo Silva (XDS Astana).<\/p>\n<p>The gap is still only around 25 seconds so it\u2019s will be tough for them to go the distance \u2013 especially in these horrific conditions, with the rain returning something rotten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"164KM TO GO: BREAKAWAY GROWS IN SIZE After that counter led by Turner, a host of riders has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-581666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}