”In climbs like this, you just go hard and give as much as you can,” Yates said. ”I tried to attack after my teammates positioned me well at the bottom of the hill. All I could do was to attack. It fell into place. I don’t have a sprint to beat Sagan, I had to go away.”
The stage finish was a tribute to Scarponi, who died after a collision with a van while training, shortly before the Giro d’Italia last year.
”I didn’t know Michele Scarponi personally. I never spoke to him. But it was an emotional day for many guys in the peloton,” Yates said. ”It’s just a shame he’s not here anymore. Every day you go out training and you don’t know if you’ll come back.”
Kwiatkowski moved three seconds ahead of previous leader Damiano Caruso, with Mikel Landa 20 seconds further back.
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Tirreno-Adriatico 2018 – stage 5 results (Castelraimondo – Filottrano):
| 1 | Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) | 4:16:35 |
| 2 | Peter Sagan (Bora-hansgrohe) | +07” |
| 3 | Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) | ,, |
| 4 | Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal) | ,, |
| 5 | Rigoberto Uran (EF Education First-Drapac) | ,, |
| 6 | Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) | ,, |
| 7 | Mikel Landa (Movistar) | ,, |
| 8 | Jaime Roson (Movistar) | ,, |
| 9 | Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) | ,, |
| 10 | Damiano Caruso (BMC) | ,, |
General classification after stage 5:
| 1 | Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky) | 21:31:28 |
| 2 | Damiano Caruso (BMC) | +03” |
| 3 | Mikel Landa (Movistar) | +23” |
| 4 | Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) | +29” |
| 5 | Rigoberto Uran (EF Education First-Drapac) | +34” |
| 6 | Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) | +36” |
| 7 | Davide Formolo (Bora-hansgrohe) | +37” |
| 8 | Tiesj Benoot (Lotto Soudal) | +39” |
| 9 | George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo) | +41” |
| 10 | Jaime Roson (Movistar) | +47” |
