Daniel Oss (BMC Racing) went from starring in the day's Giro d'Italia breakaway on stage 5, winning two intermediate sprints and claiming the day's combativity prize, to picking himself up from a nasty crash. The Italian suffered some road rash, but rejoined the ultimatley unsuccessful escape and will fight another day.
“We started the stage with the idea that I would try and get in the breakaway. After the first KOM it was pretty hard but four riders went away. The only bad thing was that Amets Txurruka from Orcia GreenEdge was only five minutes behind on GC so the peloton couldn’t let him get too far in front," Oss said.
The breakaway was just over 100km from the finish when Oss crashed on a descent, ripping up his shorts and his skin. He fought his way back to the breakaway but the move was caught with 7.5km to go.
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“I went around the corner in the wrong way and I know it was my mistake but I didn’t give up and just tried to get back into the breakaway and just tried to do my best until the finish. And we actually got caught really close to the finish. With 50km to go I didn’t think we would be able to stay away because Team Giant Alpecin were pulling and the sprinters’ teams too. The parcours was pretty tricky in the end so this allowed us to remain away for a bit and the gap moved up and down.”
“I was looking for a breakaway like this to understand how I feel and actually I feel pretty good. The crash wasn’t ideal but I didn’t have too much pain, just road rash. Otherwise I am happy with today."
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