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Tour de France 2010: Stage 5

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January 1 - July 25, Epernay, France, Road - GT

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The fifth stage of the Tour is another one for the sprinters.  Will Ale-Jet zoom to his third win?  Will Mark Cavendish finally get back to his winning ways?🅰&nb🧸sp; Or will we see a surprise winner at the finish line in Montargis?

Good afternoon and welcome back to the Tour. We continue moving south today, 187.5 km from Epernay to Montargis. There are some bumps along the way, but nothing that should prevent the sprinters from doing their thing 🐼in the finale.

The weather could play a role today.&n൲bsp; It is 🤡already around 30° Celsius and will only get warmer.  Plus there is brilliant sunshine.  Hope the guys put on lots of sun protection today, and that they remember to drink as much water as they possibly can.

Will it really come down to that expected mass sprint today? Because this is also really a perfect stage for a breakaway. Today's and tomorrow's flat satge are a good chance the GC candididates to give themselves a breathing spell before four upcoming mountain stages.
 

Did we say it was warm today?  How about hot, or even hot or maybe even HOT!  It is already 33° Celsius, and absolutely no wi🍨nd at all.

There are now only 188 riders in the Tour.  Ten t🎶eams have each lost one rider.  The most recent is Euskaltel's Amets Txurruka, who broke his collarbone in a crash yesterday.

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Good news for Robert Gesink (Rabobank) from yesterday. He crashed near the end of yesterday's stage and finished 179th, 2:08 down. But since it was in the last three kms, he was awarded the same time as the winner.
 

And some no♊t-so-good news for Lance Armstrong of RadioShack. He failed to sign in yesterday and was fined 100 Swissꦰ francs. He wasn't the only one though, six other riders were given the same penalty.

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The stage star♈ted in Eparnay, a big name in the production of champagne. There are two other industries which are big here, though: sugar refinery, and the production of hats and caps.

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Dan Benson has just called in t🅘o tell us that there was another crash in the neutralised zone earlier.  Team𝄹 Sky's GC contender Bradley Wiggins hit the ground, but he's ok.

Mark Renshaw of HTC-Columbia is not only Mark Ca𓄧vendish's lead out man, but also his roomate here 🍨at the tour. He says the Manxman isn't all that worried about not winning so far,a dn that the team mood is still good.

This was the Tour's fourth visit to Eparnay. The first st✤age of the 1963 Tour ended here, with Eddy Pauwels winning it. Stages started her in 1978 and 2002.

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The leading trio has tackled ⛦the second category four💦 climb. Van de Walle got 3 points, Gutierrez 2, and El Fares 1.

Le♊t's take out daily peek at the various rankings, just so we remember what is going on. Fabian Cancellara i(Saxo Bank) is still the numb🧸er one:

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There is really a brliliant blue sky today, with not a♑ cloud anywh🍎ere in sight.

Thor Hushovd of Cervelo still leads the points ranking, but Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre) is getting closer and closer.

Over in the polka-dot department, Jerome Pineau 🌱of QuickStep is leading with 13 points ahead of teammate Sylvain Chavanel and Rein Taaramae (Cofidis), both with eight points.

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Geraint Thomas of Sky is best young rider so far, ahead of Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) and Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas).
 

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Stéphane Auge (Cofidis) has topped for a rear wheel change after a pꦡuncture. He's ෴off quickly and will soon be back in the peloton.

After the vineyards of the first part of the stage, the break and the pelo🐬ton are now riding through huge wheat fields in the heart of France.

Fabian Cancellara's Saxo Bank team is leading the chase with some help from HTC-Columbi💞a. Cancellara is again on his yellow bike, with matching yellow helmet and sunglasses. However no matching yellow shorts for Fabian. He is a more of a traditionalist.

The gentle rolli༒n🥀g hills of the Seine-et-Marne region are dotted with small villages with some spectacular churches, small castles and chateau.

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The three riders in the break areᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ following the white line down the middle of t🤡he road. They are riding smooth and taking equal turns like a trio in a team pursuit.

The gap to the peloton is actually increasing again as the break and peloton play games with each other. The peloton is keeping the trio under control but eases the pace because it does not want to bring them back too soon. We can expect the gap to come down rapidly in the final 30kmౠ but the break will also accelerate and try to stay clear for as long as possib🍎le.

The Cyclingnews team is at the finish and Tech editor James Huang has just confirmed that the temperature is 35C. That's 95F. He describes it as 'Africa hot'&nbs🦹p;

It's time for lunch for the race. The break and th♛e peloton have gone through and grabbed their musette. As ever there is a big crowd hoping to get a musette or bottle thrown away by the riders.

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The pace is rising now, with the peloton strung out in a long single line. Tough for the domestiques who hav꧑e to go back to the team cars and then haul them back to their teamma🐠tes.

The race has just crossed the Seine and Yoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚnne rivers. We're not far south-east of Paris today.

The leading♑ trio ꧙rides by another of those lovely fields of sunflowers.

Bert Grabs♉ch of HTC-Columbia punctures.  Again.

The GErman rider jumps in behind the Milram cꦫar to get back to the peloton.  We don't know who is driving that car, but we do know that oওne of Milram's directeurs sportif here is Ralf Grabsch, his elder brother.

This intꦜermediate sprint is slighlty uphill. The points go to El Fares ahead of v🦩an de Walle and Gutierrez.

Cavendish is back at the team car.&nb🌞sp; He is🥂 having shoe issues.

Van de Walle gets a new water bottle.  I🧜t is important to drink as much as possible on days like this.

We could have a very interesting finale today.  There are tight corners at𝓰 5.5km and 4.5 km, but t🔜he real fun comes in the final km.  There is a right hand turn at 600 meters, tight and extremely narrow.  We do not want to think about what might happen there....

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What did it look like at the start this morning? You can168澳洲5最新开奖结果: take a peek here at our exclusive photos.

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A very 🎐green-looking rider is dropping back.  Oh, it is Thor Hushovd visting the Cervelo team car.

Lampre has sent a rider to the head of the ꦑpeloton.  He is followedd by two HTC-Columbias and a whole slew of Liquigases.

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Menchov makes a quick sꦛtop at the tea♎m car for further bike adjustments.

Get those cameras ready, folks,  We see ꦏmore sunflow♕ers approaching.

We are not real agricultural experts, but we think it looks lik💜e an excellent crop of sunflowers this year.

Menchov gets some help in his journey back to th൩e peloton.

Yukiya Arashiro of Bbox Bouyges Telecom had planned to be in today's break group. At least that is what 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he told us yesterday.

We still see quite a large number of bandaged ri𓃲ders.  We don't want to say Mummies on Bikes, but....

Congrat🎐ulations to Kim and Caroline Kirchen.  They are now the proud parents of Liam and Mika.  And everyone is grateful that the father has survived for ♛the birth.

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Now we have a dou❀ble dose of sunflowers -- bi𓆏g fields on both sides of the road!

Jens Voigt of Saxo Bank plays water carrier.

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Cervelo h💦as moved in to help wiཧth the lead work.  The gap is now 1:26.

Jonathan Vaughters told Christian Vande Velde to go home and forget about racing until he has the motivation to come back. The Garmin-Transitions rider crashed heavily on stage 2 and failed to start the following day due to his injuries.  168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Read more here.

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Here is an interesting piece of trivia from Carl0880 of the CN forum:

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Speaking of sprints, we had the final intermediate sprint of the day.  The𒀰 points go to van de Walle ahead of El Fares and Gutierrez.

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Lampre and Cervelo now helping at the front.

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Gu🐲tierrez refuses to give in to fate and takes off from his two comrades.

Gutier♒rez stays away while the field makes that first sharp 💟right hand turn.  Safely.

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So much for that lead.   They 👍will have him any second now. 💮 The peloton survives another sharp turn.

Tony Ma🍸rtin pulls the peloton past  Gutierrez.

Garmin in the lead with three km to go.

Lots of turns and cur🃏ves here, and we have a roundabout coming up momentarily.

Two km to go.  This is not the wide⭕s road we have seen.

Everyone wants to be on Julian Dean's wheel.

Final km.  There is a grop of 30 or𒊎 so in the lead.

The last curve, and they come through safely.

Cavendis🐻🐟h sees a hole and ploughs his way as first across the line!

Gerald Ciolek of💖 Milram and🅺 Edvald Boasson Hagen of Sky fill out the podium.

Cavendish raised his ams in cel🦄ebration.  No nasty gestures today!

Hushovd finished fifth, so he is stil comfortably leading the points r📖anking🥂.

Looks like a🐼bout two bike lengths between Cavendish and Ciolek.

No changes in the overall.

Marcus Burghardt of BMC leads a group over the line about three and a half mi꧑nutes down.

Great relief this afternoon for Cavendish and his HTC-Columbia team.  Thanks for joining us and ♔be sure to read along again tomorrow.

STAGE

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia 4:30:50
2 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram
3 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
5 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
6 Sébastien Turgot (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
7 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Team Katusha
8 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
9 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
10 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions

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