Yesterday, Thursday May 10, saw an excellent comeback at the Giro d’Italia for Mark Cavendish and Team Sky after a spectacular crash for Cav on the final day in Denmark and a disappointing start to the Italian leg for the squad as a whole. Having endured a grim Team Time Trial in Verona managing only ninth with six riders crossing the line for a time of 37 minutes, 34 seconds, way adrift of Garmin-Barracuda’s winning 37m 4s, yesterday’s Stage 5, 209km from Modena to Fano, was clearly a whole new day, which saw Cav power his way to a finish in 4h 43m 15s to edge out Australia’s Matt Goss into second and Italian Daniele Bennati to third. The victory marked Cavendish’s second Giro stage win of 2012 and an impressive total of 32 Grand Tour stage wins. Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas of Garmin-Barracuda retains the leader’s jersey with an overall time of 14h 45m 13s.