Giro d'Italia Women stage 5 LIVE: Can anyone gain time on GC during a brutal day of climbing in the high mountains?
The peloton heads into the Dolomites for four categorised climbs and virtually no recovery sections over 146 kilometres with 3,200 metres of elevation gain
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.
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.
