Ciao! and welcome to live coverage of stage five of the Giro d'Italia, a rolling 233km ride from Praia a Mare to Benevento, a hilltop town around 50km east of Naples. Some say it'll be a sprint, others a breakaway, while many envision a similar script to yesterday...

Full report of today's dramatic stage 5 and that superb win by Andre Greipel...

A split in the pack means Ilnur Zakarin and Alejandro Valverde - and Bob Jungels, the white jersey - steal four seconds off their GC rivals. Dumoulin still leads but the deficit has been slashed by four seconds to 16 seconds by Jungels. Valverde is in seventh, at 27 seconds, just one second now behind Vincenzo Nibali ahead of tomorrow's first summit finish.

Here he is... the winner today, who now joins Marcel Kittel with four career wins on the Giro.

Arnaud Demare (FDJ) and Sonny Colbrelli (Bardiani-CSF) took second and third but they were about 10 metres behind Greipel. Bob Jungels took fourth ahead of Moreno Hofland.

Textbook win for the Rostock Gorilla who was set up perfectly by his Lotto Soudal team-mates and then finished it off with professional zing.

HUGE WIN FOR ANDRE GREIPEL! The German veteran is peerless as he powers through on the uphill sprint and wins by a few bike lengths.

Ferrari leading out for Lampre... Pozzato, Demare, Colbrelli all there... it was Taaramae who crashed...

CRASH: A Katusha rider hits the deck on the front ahead of the flamme rouge...

Onto the cobbles again... then the tarmac... Demare is there too...

Sacha Modolo is there so there are some other fast guys to rival Greipel here...

Kittel has been dropped... the red jersey is out of is, opening the way for his countryman Andre Greipel, perhaps.

Lotto Soudal and Lampre and Trek now edging forward, as are Giant and FDJ. Still no sign of Kittel or Etixx... What are they playing at?

The bell has sounded and there's one more lap of this finish circuit. Katusha now on the front with LottoNL-Jumbo. Perhaps the Dutch team fancy Moreno Hofland for today?

Now Tinkoff and Orica have men on the front - ah, hang on, it's Brutt and Txurruka from the break, which has been caught. Game on!

LottoNL-Jumbo come to the front now with three riders chasing down this break, which hits the cobbled climb. It's a very small section of cobbles though, transitioning onto tarmac and then flagstones. This will be the climb and finish straight that they will repeat in about 10 minutes.

Under the 10-to-go banner go the break - and then the pack just 12 seconds later. There's party atmosphere here with bunting and ribbons out above the road and the locals out in their droves.

Majka has almost made it back to the peloton now thanks to some pacing by two Tinkoff team-mates. The break has just 15 seconds to play with now so they'll be caught imminently.

Bobridge and Timmer are riding along chatting about that incident when Zilioli, who caused their falls by crashing in the middle of the road, rides past without even a word of apology. He then turns round to recognise them and Bobridge, the Australian national champion, waves in what seems to be a faintly sarcastic manner...

They're all back on their bikes after that fall but now Rafal Majka has a mechanical and is forced to swap bikes with a Tinkoff team-mate. The Pole will have a big chase back onto the peloton now.

CRASH: Gianfranco Zilioli (Nippo-Vini Fantini) crashes after apparently touching a wheel on a sweeping downhill. Jack Bobridge (Trek-Segafredo) and Albert Timmer (Giant-Alpecin) are forced wide and off the road, both going over the handlebars and down into a grassy ditch...