Cycling: Mark Cavendish has the edge in Giro stage win

Mark Cavendish won stage five of the Giro d’Italia yesterday in a close finish in Fano.

The Team Sky man produced a powerful sprint to edge out Australian Matt Goss of the Orica GreenEdge team and Italian Daniele Bennati of Radioshack Nissan.

All three were credited with the same time of four hours, 43 minutes and 15 seconds for the ride from Modena.