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Giro d'Italia: Igor Arrieta's rainy day raid delivers stage 5 victory for UAE Team Emirates-XRG

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Igor Arrieta celebrates his victory (Image credit: Getty Images) UAE Team Emirates-XRG's Igor Arrieta came back from a crash and a wrong turn to dramatically win stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia, coming around Afonso Eulálio (Bahrain Victorious) in the final few hundred metres in Potenza to deny the Portuguese rider the stage win. Eulálio claims pink from the shoulders of Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) as the early break survived to the finish on one of the race's longest - and wettest - stages, culminating in a chaotic finale with Arrieta and Eulálio in the lead. It was a dramatic run-in to Potenza, with Arrieta crashing out of the lead with 13.5km to go, only to then rejoin Eulálio when the Bahrain rider also crashed a few kilometres later. But the Spanish rider's rollercoaster day had one last wrong turn, literally, when he went down the wrong side of a split in the road in the final two kilometres.…

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