Hindley wins and takes yellow as Pogacar wilts
Stage five report: Jai Hindley of Australia won the first mountain stage, from Pau to Laruns, after the cruel climb of the Col de Marie Blanque saw Adam Yates’s race leadership evaporate and his UAE Emirates teammate, the former champion, Tadej Pogacar, wilt. Jeremy Whittle reports from Laruns …
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Who's wearing what ahead of stage six
Yellow jersey: Jai Hindley (Bora Hangrohe) 22hr 15min 12sec
Green jersey: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin–Deceuninck) 150 points
Polka-dot jersey: Felix Gall (AG2R Citreon) 28 points
White jersey: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) 22hr 16min 52sec
Tadej Pogacar speaks: “It was not so difficult today but Jonas just went so fast on the climb,” says the two-time winner of the Tour de France. “I lost my legs a little bit on the last 500 metres of the climb but overall I feel good.”
Sprinter watch: Fabio Jakobsen was struggling from the get-go this afternoon, clearly suffering the after-effects of his crash yesterday. I’m pleased to report that he has finished the stage as last man home with plenty of time to spare. His reward? Another day of suffering in the Pyrenees tomorrow.
Jonas Vingegaard speaks: “We wanted to have a guy in the breakaway, a satellite rider, and ended up with three, so that’s even better. The guys did super, super great today. We didn’t have to pull in the bunch, which was great for us. Then on the final climb, I felt good so I said to Sepp [Cuss] that he should go to the front and star pushing. He did that and then I attackled.”
Jai Hindley speaks: “I was sort of just improvising out there and enjoying some bike-racing,” says today’s stage winner. “I just managed to find myself in that breakaway group and I enjoyed myself out there today.”
On wearing the yellow jersey on his first Tour: “It’s incredible really and … eh … I just have no words. The guys opn the radio were just creaming at me to ride it to the line but I couldn’t really hear them. I wanted to come here and be comneptitive and have some form of success … and I’ve just won a stage of the Tour de France.”
General Classification after stage five
Jai Hindley (Bora Hansgrohe) 22hr 15min 12sec
Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +47sec
Giuliu Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +1min 03sec
Emanuel Buchman (Bora Hangrohe) +1min 11sec
Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) +1min 34sec
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) +1min 40sec
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🇦🇺 @JaiHindley went ALL IN for that win !🏅
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Stage five podium
1. Jai Hindley (Bora Hansgrohe) 3hr 57min 07 sec
2. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +32sec
3. Felix Gall (AG2R Citreon) (same time)
And the rest: Jonas Vingegaard finishes last of the quartet he was travelling in, putting a massive dent of over a minute into into Tadej Pogacar but failing to win any bonus seconds. Hindley takes the yellow jersey but Vingegaard will have a lead of 54 seconds over Pogacar, who’s just finished.
Jai Hindley wins stage five!
The Australian Bora Hansgrohe rider wins the first mountain stage of the Tour in fine style, taking the yellow jersey in the process.
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2km to go: It’s been a superb performance from Bora Hangrohe in general and Jai Hindley in particular. They got three men into the breakaway and Hindley was able to capitalise on the hard work of others who were towing that group along for various reasons. Now, barring an absolute disaster, he’s about to win the stage.
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4km to go: Jai Hindley is 42 seconds clear of the Vingegaard quartet, time-trialling his way towards the finish line. They’ll do exceptionally well to take 10 seconds per kilometre out of him.
6km to go: Vingegaard’s lead over Pogacar is now over one minute, while Gall is caught by Vingegaard, Ciccone and Buchmann, who invite him to join their little group. Vingegaard is being forced to do all the work at the front of that particular quartet.
7.5km to go: Of course he can always channel his inner Neilson Powells and wear a polka-dot skinsuit with red shorts.
9km to go: Burning rubber down the descent, Hindley leads by 47 seconds from Felix Gall who is in the sights of Vingegaard, Ciccone and Buchmann and about to be caught. He won’t care – he’s guaranteed himself the polka-dot jersey tomorrow. It’ll look great with his brown shorts.
11km to go: Vingegaard is 53 seconds ahead of Pogacar on the road and is presumably more interested in putting as much time as he can into his Slovenian rival than catching Hindley. Of course the more he does of the former, the greater his chances of pulling off the latter.
15km to go: Vingegaard joins Ciccone and Buchmann. He’s 58 seconds behind Hindley, with Gall somewhere in between them on the road.
16km to go: Hindley is on the long descent down the Col de Marie Blanque, 16 kilometres from home. Gall, Ciccone and Buchmann are the only three riders between him and Vingegaard.
18km to go: Jai Hindley crests the Col de Marie Blanque. Jonas Vingegaard is 1min 21sec behind, struggling on a narrow road lined with spectators to find the room to pass various riders left in the Australian’s wake after giving Tadej Pogacar the slip. Hindley is 1min 15sec clear of Vingegaard, with Pogacar another 40 seconds behind.
Jonas Vingegaard attacks!
19km to go: The reigning champion puts the hammer down on the climb and Tadej Pogacar is, for the time being at least, is unable to respond.
19km to go: Hindley drops Gall about 900m from the summit, while further behind him, Adam Yates is dropped by his team leader Tadej Pogacar.
21km to go: I say Hindley may not contest the KOM points available at the summit of Col de Marie Blanque but I’d forgotten there are eight, five and two bonus seconds up for grabs to the first three riders over the top as well as a further 10, six and four for the first three across the finish line. Hindley’s Bora Hansgrohe team need to make a judgement call on whether or not it's worth sacrificing a few bonus seconds in order to keep Gall onside until the end of the stage.
22km to go: The Hindley group swallows up our lead trio on the climb and is quickly blown to smithereens as the terrain ramps upwards. AG2R Citreon take over at the front. Felix Gall pulls away into the lead with Jai Hindley on his wheel. One presumes Hindley will not contest the KOM points available at the summit and gift them to Gall, who is leading that particular classification. The gap back to the peloton is 2min 38sec.
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25km to go: Confirmation that yes, it is Omar Fraille who is towing the Hindley group along. Our leading trio are on the climb to the Category 1
Col de Marie Blanque. It’s 1,035m high and almost eight kilometres in length with a gradient of 8.7 per cent.
26km to go: One of Team Ineos Grenadiers, either Omar Fraille or Danny Martinez, is doing a big tow on the front of the Jai Hindley group. I presume it’s Fraille, laying the groundwork for a potential stage win for his teammate Martinez. It’s good news for Hindley, who has got a relatively free ride today while taking advantage of other people’s hard graft.
32km to go: If you’re just joining me, here’s where we’re at. With one big climb to go, Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) are out in front with a lead of 18 seconds over a 21-man group including Jai Hindley, who won last year’s Giro. The maillot jaune Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) , his team leader Tadej Pogacar and the defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) are in the peloton, which is 3min 21sec behind the leaders.
38km to go: Neilands goes over the summit of the Col d’Ichere, taking two KOM points. He’s been joined by Van Aert and ALaphilippe. Back in the peloton, Marc Soler is doing a pull at the front for UAE Emirates and clearly feeling the pain. Forget about cyclists and their poker faces, he’s gurning like a raver giving it large at an Ibiza nightclub.
39km to go: Krists Neilands is on his way up the Col d’Ichère with Wout van Aert and Julian Alaphilippe in hot pursuit, 15 seconds behind him. The Hindley group is a further 26 seconds back and the peloton is three minutes behind them.
43km to go: Julian Alaphilippe and Wout van Aert try to bridge the gap from the Hindley group to the stage leader Krists Neilands. They’re 15 seconds behind him and 37 seconds ahead of Hindley and the 21 other riders in that group. The peloton is at 3min 46sec.
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King of the Mountains current standings
1. Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen) 20 points
2. Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) 18
3. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers) 15
4. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) 13
5. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) 10
6. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) 8
7. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 7
8. Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech) 6
9. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) 4
10. Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious) 4
48km to go: The riders have two more climbs to tackle today and next up is the Category 3 Col d’Ichere. It’s 4.2 kilometres in length with the summit at 674m. The average gradient is seven per cent.
49km to go: Israel-Premier Tech rider Krists Neiland attacks, opening a gap of 24 seconds on the Hindlay/Van Aert group at the front of the race.
51km to go: The riders of UAE Emirates continue to work hard at the front of the peloton but they have already spent one match, in the form of Matteo Trentin, who has been dropped.
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55km to go: Still on the downhill, we have a lead group of 17 riders who lead the peloton by 4min 09sec.
They are: Omar Fraile and Daniel Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious), Jai Hindley and Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Wout van Aert, and Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma), and Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar).
60km to go: “The famous pro cycling chef, Hannah Grant, has released The Grand Tour Cookbook which contains ‘350 pages of easy to prepare recipes containing allergy friendly, natural, unprocessed foods’,” writes Ruaidhri Groom. “It is described as the ‘ultimate companion in the kitchen for athletes’. Which rules me out of the desired market. But what is the ultimate companion for Guardian Live bloggers? How do you keep yourself fuelled during this gruelling month?”
For me, Ruairidh, my Tour nutrition intake includes early morning coffee, porridge and toast. That’s followed by a lunch of tuna or salmon salad, or maybe smoked salmon and avocado drizzled with lemon juice if I’m pushing the boat out.
I tend to snack on Wine Gums and chocolate Dairy Milk Buttons while knocking back copious bidons of water. My post-stage warm-down invariably involves a bit of a walk followed by a couple of pints. After that it’s dinner and an earlyish night.
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69km to go: The needle of Felix Gall’s speedometer briefly nudges the 91km per hour mark as he descends. That’s about 63 miles per hour in old money, if my calculations are correct.
73km to go: A native of Perth in Australia and the winner of last year’s Giro d’Italia, Jai Hindley is now in “virtual yellow” as he begins his descent of the Col du Soudet. He’s got his Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Emanuel Buchmann alongside him for company and the German is no slouch. He finished seventh in last year’s Giro and has a fourth place finish in the Tour to his name from 2019.
75km to go: Felix Gall crests the summit of the Col du Soudet and wins himself the polka-dot jersey. It’s spitting rain, the narrow road is lined with fans and visibility is extremely poor. The peloton is four minutes behind.
76km to go: Van Aert and Campenaerts are caught and AG2R-Citreon rider Felix Gall launches an attack towards the summit of the Col du Soudet. He’s followed in close order by Lidl-Trek’s Giulio Ciccone but manages to give him the slip. Gall rides into the fog near the top of the mountain with visibility at about 30 metres, if that. Fingers crossed for everyone on the way down.
78 km to go: The peloton is three minutes behind the Hindley/Uran/Alaphilippe group, which has shed Marc Soler and now numbers 23. The UAE Emirates rider has been ordered to slow down so he can rejoin his teammates in the peloton and provide assistance to Pogacar when required.
79km to go: With his shirt unzipped to the waist, Campernaerts leads Van Aert up the climb with the duo four kilometres from the summit. The descent that follows is exceptionally fast and it is to be hoped, following the tragic accident at this summer’s Tour de Suisse that claimed the life of Bahrain Victorious rider Gino Mader, that everyone makes it down safe and sound.
80km to go: At the front of the yellow jersey group, the riders of UAE Emirates continue to make the pace, closely tracked by their counterparts from Jumbo-Visma. The defending champion Jonas Vingegaard has no intention of letting Tadej Pogacar out of his sight.
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Race radio: Bahrain Victorious get on the horn to their riders in the yellow jersey group. “Come on boys,” is the message. “All the with Mikel [Landa]. All the time with him. Allez, good job so far. Keep fighting.”
83km to go: Less than halfway up the Col du Soudet and Van Aert and Campenaerts are 25 seconds clear of the Hindley/Uran/Alaphilippe group. The peloton, containing Adam Yates, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar are another 2min 50sec behind.
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83km to go: The grupetto of sprinters has formed behind the peloton and with his injured right leg, Fabio Jakobsen is struggling even to keep pace with that ragbag assortment of the lame and halt.
85km to go: Lidl-Trek start making the pace at the front of the 33-man group, which will soon need a name-change as it is shedding numbers on this climb at a serious rate of knots.
85km to go: At the front of the race, Wout van Aert and Victor Campenaerts drop Mads Pedersen, who goes on the retreat to the group 33 seconds behind the two leaders.
87km to go: Remi Cavagna (Soudal Quick Step) ups the tempo at the front of the 33-man Hindley\Uran\Alaphilippe group and the gap between it and the peloton stretches to a little over two minutes.
87km to go: The peloton are 1min 40sec behind the Jai Hindley group of 33 riders. Making the pace in the peloton, UAE Emirates have Marc Soler in that group. At some point Tadej Pogacar will presumably want to bridge the gap but he may keep his powder dry until later in the stage because if he goes too soon he’ll be forced to leave his teammates behind. The reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard will be monitoring his Slovenian rival closely.
92km to go: Van Aert, Campenaerts and Pedersen continue to lead and are 1min 07sec clear of the 33 other riders from the original breakaway. Being towed along by UAE Emirates, the peloton is another 1min 27sec behind.
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96km to go: The riders are approaching the foot of the Col Du Soudet, the first hors categorie of this year’s Tour. It’s 1,540m high and 15 kilometres in length with an average gradient of 7.2 per cent. Eurosport report that it’s really foggy at the top with visibility restricted to about 50 feet.
99km to go: The camera cuts to Quinn Simmons, who took a nasty fall earlier today. He’s travelling along, leaning against the side of the doctor’s car, undergoing what appears to be a rolling, mobile concussion test. I’m not making this up; an occupant of the car is holding up fingers and getting him to count them, and possibly asking him who the Prime Minister of the UK is. Given the recent high turnover of occupants at 10 Downing Street and the fact that Simmons is a Yank, there’s a very good chance he has no idea that it’s currently Rishi Sunak.
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100km to go: Today’s story so far: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Victor Campanaerts (Lotto Dstny) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) lead the stage. They’re 1min 03sec clear of a chasing group of 33 riders including Jai Hindley, Julian Alaphilippe, Rigoberto Uran and Esteban Chavez.
The peloton are a further 1min and 46sec behind, where the UAE Emirates team of Adam Yates and Tadej Pogacar are currently being forced to do all the work at the front due to an understandable lack of enthusiasm from the other teams.
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Intermediate sprint result
1. Bryan Coquard (20 pts)
2. Mads Pedersen (17)
3. Wout van Aert (15)
4. Victor Campenaerts (13)
At 20’’
5. Cavagna (11)
6. Uran (10)
7. Asgreen (9)
8. Juul Jensen (8)
9. Benoot (7)
10. Gall (6)
11. Buchmann (5)
12. Jorgenson (4)
13. Lopez (3)
14. Ciccone (2)
15. Traaen (1)
112km to go: Coquard eases up having own the intermediate sprint and Van Aert, Pedersen and Campenaerts find themselves with a gap of 29 seconds back to the rest of the breakaway.
Here’s who is in it: Tiesj Benoot and Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Felix Grossschartner and Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates), Omar Fraile and Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Esteban Chaves and Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), Julian Alaphilippe, Kasper Asgreen and Rémi Cavagna (Soudal-Quick Step), Jack Haig (Bahrain Victorious), Jai Hindley, Emanuel Buchmann and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Giulio Ciccone and Juan Pedro Lopez (Lidl-Trek), Clément Berthet, Felix Gall and Aurélien Paret Peintre (Ag2r-Citröen), Matteo Jorgenson and Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar), Chris Hamilton (Dsm-firmenich), Hugo Houle and Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Chris Juul Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Anthony Delaplace (Arkéa-Samsic), Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny), Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan), Torstein Traeen (Uno-X) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies).
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113km to go: Bryan Coquard takes the points in the intermediate sprint and is followed over the line by Mads Pedersen.
116km to go: There are three kilometres to go to the intermediate sprint and green jersey contenders Wout van Aert, Victor Campenaerts, Bryan Coquard and Mads Pedersen have gone clear of the breakaway to contest it.
122km to go: Correction: It is of course Wout van Aert who is in “virtual yellow” but as he’s not a genuine GC contender, it’s techincally Jai Hindley who’s in “virtual virtual yellow”. Back in the peloton, nobody is showing the slightest interest in helping UAE Emirates to close the gap to the breakaway that is now 2min 14sec.
123km to go: Team UAE Emirates are leading the peloton and Tadej Pogacar and his Italian teammate Matteo Trentin are deep in conversation, pondering their next move.
124km to go: A breakaway of over 30 riders have opened a gap of 1min 32sec on a bunch that hasn’t quite gfigured out what to do about it. Last year’s Giro winner Jai Hindley is the biggest GC contener in the escape party and is currently in “virtual yellow”.
127km to go: The gap goes out to a 1min 26sec. Jai Hindley, Wout van Aert, Rigoberto Uran and Julian Alaphilippe are among the escapees. Back in the bunch, the American rider Quinn Simmons goes down, ripping his jersey and shorts in the process. He’s cut his left shoulder, elbow and knee but remounts and pedals onwards.
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129km to go: We appear to have ourselves something of a breakaway boasting upwards of 30 riders, including Wout van Aert and the Australian GC contender Jai Hindley. They’re 44 seconds clear of the bunch.
133km to go: Rémi Cavagna (Soudal Quick-Step) and Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar) put some distance between themselves and the bunch but are joined by what looks like dozens of riders . Is it a breakaway, is it the peloton? More news as we get it.
138km to go: With hias teammates Morkov and Jakobsen a minute behind at the back of the field, Remi Cavagna launches an attack at the front. Jakobsen’s fellow sprinters Mark Cavendish and Sam Welsford are also struggling at the back in this hilly section.
139km to go: Having rejoined the peloton, Fabio Jakobsen is quickly dropped again as the race goes uphill again. He’s still being shepherded along by Michael Morkov and will be hoping a breakaway is allowed to escape so the peloton slows down a bit. Good luck with that, Fabio, because at the front of the bunch, Tadej Pogacar has just put the hammer down to close the gap between the peloton and another group of wannabe escapees.
141km to go: Pierre Latour is joined by eight riders, with Julian Alaphilippe, Michal Kwiatkowski, Warren Barguil and Alberto Bettiol among them. They’re unable to snap the elastic and now make up the front of the peloton.
146km to go: Today’s stage has yet to settle but Pierre Latour continues to hold a slender lead, almost certainly praying that he’ll soon have some company. Jakobsen and Morkov are in among the convoy of cars trailing the bunch, bending the rules as they take advantage of the slipstream they create to help rejoin their chums.
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148km to go: At the back of the field, Fabio Jakobsen is already struggling, clearly feeling the effects of the injuries he sustained yesterday. His teammate Michael Morkov is helping him along.
149km to go: Pierre Latour continues to plough his lone furrow with a lead of 17 seconds. Back in the bunch, Julian Alaphilippe launches an attack that is quickly shut down. Now Alberto Bettiol and Wout van Aert make their move.
Two withdrawals: Contrary to what I reported earlier, yesterday’s crashes led to two withdrawals. Lotto Dstny rider Jacobo Guarnieri and Astana’s Luis Leon Sanchez have both been forced to quit the race. The field is down to 172 riders.
154km to go: Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), winner of the Tour de Suisse, is one of a handful of riders to crash in the peloton but all seem to be OK. He and two team-mates draft behind a car as they make their way back to the bunch.
155km to go: Neilson Powless tries another attack and is followed by 10 other riders. The peloton ups the pace and sucks them back in. Latour is only five seconds clear.
156km to go: TotalEnergies rider Pierre Latour jumps off the front and is allowed to open a gap of nine seconds. Already 24 minutes behind on GC, he won’t be a source of concern for the big-hitters but will be hoping a few other riders can get across to join him.
They're racing on stage five ...
161km to go: No sooner does Christian Prudhomme give the signal to start racing than Powless attacks off the front with several other riders but they’re not allowed to get away. The peloton is strung out and travelling at 57km per hour but remains intact.
Not long now: The riders are in the closing stages of the neutral zone and with the intermediate sprint 45 kilometres into the stage, it will be intriguing to see who and how many riders try to form the inevitable breakaway, and whether or not they will be allowed to escape. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), for example, has his eye on the green jersey currently occupied by Jakobsen and will presumably fancy his chances of hoovering up some points. In the polka-dot jersey, Neils Powless (EF Education-Easypost) will also hope to be first over the early climb.
Fabio Jakobsen: The Dutch sprinter crashed in the closing stages of yesterday’s stage and sets off today with a rectangular plaster on his right knee and a sizeable gauze bandage around his calf.
All of the riders who hit the deck yesterday have made it to the start today and there have only been two abandonments in this year’s race so far. Movistar leader Enric Mas and his EF Education-Easypost counterpart Richard Carapaz were both forced to pull out following a crash on the first stage.
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Stage five is underway ...
The pedals are turning and the riders are making their way through Pau but remain in the neutral zone and won’t be given to signal to begin racing for another eight kilometres.
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The top five on General Classification
Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) 18hr 18min 01sec
Tadej Pogacar (UAE EMirates) +06sec
Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla) +06sec
Victor Lafay (Cofidis) +12sec
Wout van Aert +16sec
Christian Prudhomme on today’s stage: “There’s still time for questions going into the first rendezvous in the mountains,” writes the race director in the Tour handbook. “The climbs of the Col de Soudet and Col de Marie Blanque will provide some answers about the form of the contenders for the title, but the terrain isn’t really suitable for big attacks. That said...”
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William Fotheringham on stage five: Two super-steep and gratingly long climbs in the Pyrenees will give a real idea of who is in for the win. It’s 44 years since the Tour has had ascents this severe this early in the race, and there could be as few as a dozen riders in the hunt at the finish. A fast-finishing climber who can descend fast will win this stage, someone of the calibre of Matej Mohoric.
Stage five: Pau to Laruns (162.7km)
While the hustle and bustle of yesterday’ finish was predictably exciting, the opening 177 kilometres of the stage was a prolonged yawn as the riders conserved their energy for today’s foray into the Pyrenees, the first of two consecutive stages in the mountains straddling France and Spain.
The riders will set off from Pau, which is hosting a stage for the 74th time and while today’s profile is not especially daunting, it does feature several stiff climbs and bracing descents, including the first hors catégorie ascent of this year’s Tour in the 15km long Col de Soudet.
In the race leader’s maillot jaune for a fourth consecutive day, Adam Yates could surrender it today given that his main focus will be working in the service of his team leader, Tadej Pogacar, whose first ever Tour stage win came in 2020 when the riders travelled from … Pau to Laruns. Stay tuned for the roll-out at 12.05pm (BST).
