
The day belonged to Jonas Vingegaard on stage 5 of the Critérium du Dauphiné, but Egan Bernal was able to draw encouragement from his performance as he builds towards a long-awaited return to the Tour de France.
After losing more than two minutes to Vingegaard in Wednesday’s 31km time trial, Bernal looked rather more comfortable on the road to Salins-les-Bains on stage 5, attacking from the chasing group the formed behind the day’s winner Vingegaard on the run-in to the finish.