Even when he's not in his finest form, Wout van Aert still manages to show his class, as he proved at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes on Thursday, when he soared to victory in stage five's bunch sprint.
The 31-year-old – who crashed in training early last week, started stage one in bandages, and was dropped in stage three's team time trial – led out the dash in Villars-les-Dombes, and held off Hugo Hofstetter (NSN Cycling) and Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious) to the line.
