A nervous day because everyone was afraid to lose position in the wind - on the map this morning the stage looked easy"
Diego Rosa after stage five at the Vuelta a España -
Rosa worked for teammates Mikel Landa and Fabio Aru on Wednesday, guarding against strong crosswinds that stretched the peloton into a long, snaking line through dry, brown hills -
With a flat profile and a mass sprint finish expected, teams looking to build a fast train in the final 10k worked to catch the day's breakaway and fly through traffic rotundas under bright and sunny skies -
Aru and Landa remain 10th and 11th in General Classification, both less than a minute behind new raceleader Tom Dumoulin of the Netherlands -
Rosa finished 17 seconds behind stagewinner Caleb Ewan of Australia -