Tour de Pollogne leader Sergio Iguita (Bora-Hansgrohe) wisely stayed at the tail end of the peloton, allowing the Colombian climber to escape the trouble zone on Wednesday when the pack was in chaos in the sprint finish of stage 5

Iguizuela, who was in last place in the sprint finish of stage 5, was the only one to make it to the finish.

Iguita hit the ground hard near the finish in Przemysl on Tuesday evening, finishing the stage with a badly bloodied right knee.

However, 24 hours later, after a tumultuous run on stage 5, he entered the mix zone with the media without a bandage on his knee and looked considerably less troubled than after Wednesday's crash.

"I feel much better," Higuita, who finished 39th, told Cycling News. "It was just a surface scratch, as they say in Colombia, 'chapa y pintura.' I saw a doctor on Wednesday evening. But in the end, there is nothing to worry about."

Higuita said he chose to stay calm and talk this time rather than get too close to the front line. He said, "I decided to stay at the back of the pack for a long time, and when the crash happened I just hit the brakes a little bit."

Even though he was blocked, he was able to complete the course without worrying about losing time, as he did when he crashed on Tuesday, with less than 3 km to go.

Higuita's next challenge will be the time trial on Thursday. It is hard to predict what will happen, but at least it will be a good test for the future," he said. After five hard stages, how you recover after a physical effort is just as important as your fitness."

"Sometimes I don't do so well in time trials because of my light build. But we'll check it out, talk it over with the coaches, and then we'll go full throttle and see how far we can go with that."