Today's Tour stage is short and sweet – and which of t✨he sprinters will be rejoicing at the𒁏 end of the day?
Hell𝐆o and welcome back to our live coverage of the Tour de France. Our stage today is only 158 km, and is expected to end in a mass sprint. But we will spend some time on the English Channel coast and that means wind! And echelons!
We do have💙 a climb today, though, the Cote de Gurunheul, category 4, at km 45.5. The day's inter﷽mediate sprint is at km 70.
The stage hasn't actually started yet, bu🎀t they should be underway any second now. 💮; The "sharp" start will be then in about 10 minutes.
Everyone ridinꩵg ll together through a lovely wooded area.
Philippe Gilbert drops back to the team cars for a chat -- but with the Garmin-Cervelo🌳 team car!
So far this Tour we have only had one masꦆs sprint, which was won by Tyler Farrar. And the American won on the Fourth of July, no less....
And now we have the real start! KM 0.
A handful of riders jump but don't get away.
Three riders have a handful ꧋of seconds on the field, but we are not at all ready to declare them a break.
A fourth rider has joined them, and the field has given this group its ༺blessing to go. Now let's see if we can't get some names for you.
Jose Gutierrez (Movistar), Triꦜstan Valentin (Cofidis), Sebastien Turgot (Europcar) and Antony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun) are today's Fab Four.
154km remaining from 158km
Weather! We have weather today! And not in a good sense. The temps are ok, at aboout 20° Celsius. But other than that we will probably have that wet stuff coming down again. And wind, ranging from 30 to 40 km per hour.
Th꧂e sun is shining at the momဣent but there are a lot of very dark clouds up there....
Yesterday's finale couldn't have been more thrilling, and really couldn't have been much closer. It took a look at the finish-line photo to determine that Cadel Evans (BMC) had beaten Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-SunGard).Those last few kilometres are quite unforgettable.
Garmin-Cervelo is firmly in charge of things here, being at the front of thꦜe peloton.
Delaplace𓃲 has the honour of being not only the youngest rider in the break group, he is also the youngest rider in the whole Tour. He is only 21 years old, with his next birthday coming up in September.
Just in case you have forgotten, we still have Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervelo) in yellow, one whole second ahead of Evans. with Fränk Schleck (Leopard Trek) in third at four s🌳econds.
Two Cofidis riders are working the🅺ir way back to the peloton tꦺhrough the team cars.
Jose Rojas of Movistar leads the points classification narrowly over Evans, with Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) third🌜.
And now a puncture for Cavendish. H🌸🌄e is cool and starts rolling his way back up.
133km remaining from 158km
Don't really know what the problem is for Cancellara. He get🍷s off and watches as 🍸the mechanic fixes something or other. He doesn't look particularly stressed about it.
It's nat♓ure break time! For lots of riders! Lots and lots.....
Ca✃ncellara is now back in the peloton. He dragged a little group along with him.
The sun had disappeared for a while, but now it has come back again. No 🦂doubt the riders would all be very happy if it would stay there.
Gutierrez is having some problem🌠s with his handlebars and is attempting to fix them himself. Whilst riding full-out....
To return to our look at the various 💯rankings: Cadel Evans is covered in red polka-dots today, having a whopping two points in the mountains classification.
Best young rider is s✨till Geraint Thomas of S🦂ky, and Garmin-Cervelo is top team.
122km remaining from 158km
Are you playing along with our Easton Trivia Challenge? Our question yesterday was, “Which current Tour de France rider won stage 4 of the 2007 Tour de France?” The answer, of course is, none other than World Champion and Yellow Jersey Thor Hushovd.
Join us later on for today's question.
The day's climb is approachi🎐ng: Côte de Gurunhuel -✅ 2.3 km climb with a maxium gradient of 5.1 %.
Lots and lot of people on the s⛄𒅌ide of the road on this climb!
Delaplace 👍jumps out and claims the one mountain ﷺpoint for himself.
A pair of bagpipers, 𒐪accompanied by an accordianist, celebrate the mountain ranking.
This means that C✤adel Evans will continue to wear the KOM jersey for another stage.&nbs🍬p; He has two whole points, and everyone else in the ranking has just one.
The peloton now crests this fearsome climb.
How tight are things still? Well, we still have 2💧2 riders within one minute of the lead.
A bit further back is defending champion Contador, who is currently 𝓀41st, at 1:42.
106km remaining from 158km
Speaking of sprinters – well, we think we mentioned them earlier at some point – Romain Feillu of Vacansoliel had a few words to say about Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia), calling him as arrogant as Riccardo Ricco. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Read more here.
A crash!&nbs🌸p; seven or eight rꦇiders have really all gone down in a big knot.
Sylvain Chavanel was holding h🌺is shoulder but seems to be ok. Several Rabos were involved, as was Bradley Wiggins to some extent, but no fears, everyone is back on 🎀their bikes and catching up with the peloton again.
101km remaining from 158km
Geraint Thomas, or “G” as he is called, is doing video blog for the Tour.168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Catch the lateꦚst update here.
Bradley Wiggins stops and gets a new bike. He 🌠also ⛦takes off his jacket.
The four escapees approach the day's intermediate sprint. As far as the green jersey is concerned, it doesn't matter which ⛦of them goes across f🙈irst.
Turgot take🦹s the hon🌊ours, ahead of Valentinand Gutierrez.
Movistar and HTC at the head of the field -- the intermediate sprint is approachin🐲g for the peloton...
Juan Antonio Flecha hangs around at the back of the field and looksꦦ back to see w𝔉here Wiggins is.
Roj🌳as, Gilbert, Cavendish, BMC 🀅all looking to get in position for the sprint.
The sprinters 𝓡are all over the road, and Cavendish aapparently feeꦆls like he was unfairly blocked.
Bozic of Vacansoleil takes it.
BRajkovic is still down, but is conscious.
Gesink is only now getting a new bike.
An ambulance is there now.
Brajkovic is now standing up.
The next crash. Contdor involv✱ed. He takes his helmet off.
He seems to be ok, altho his j🀅ersey is pretty ripped up.
Brajokovic is 🧸still being doctored. We do not see Gesink and assume he i🌊s back in the race.
The gap has fallওen by the way, and is 💞now just under four minutes.
Contador is now in a group chasing the field.
Contador gives a thumbs up to say he is ok.
Wait, stop, we take that back. Ges🅰ink is 🃏ok and riding. It is Brajkovic who is in the ambulance.
Contador alꦐnd Gesink are now in a group of 20 or so which is chasing the field.
The gap continues to fall, and is now at 3:28
It loo💛ks 𒈔like the Contador/Gesink group has now caught the end of the field.
77km remaining from 158km
And another crash. Nicki Sorensen of Saxo Bank is the𒈔 victim.
He slide🍃s along a long way on the grass at the side of the road. Ouch.
Two RadioSHacks behind the♐ field, trying to catch up.
The g𒁏ap has really plummeted, despie the crashes. It is no🐬w down to 1:40.
Looking at the replay, it looks like 🏅a race motorcycle was involved in Sorensen's crash.
Garmin-Cer🍷velo back in the lead, with Hushovd right there w🔯ith them.
72km remaining from 158km
Popovych apparently was involved in one of the crashes, t🃏hough. He is also pretty far back and seems to be favouring one of his wrists.
70km remaining from 158km
Nicki Sorensen is moving his way back up, too.
He lost his water bottles i🎃n his tumble, so he picks up several new ones.
Popovch is again -- or still -- at the medic'🌳s car, getting his left hand or wrist tended to.
Time for me to hand things over to Steve Farrand, who 🔜will take you up to the finish.
65km remaining from 158km
The break is slowly gaining more time as the peloton rolls stead🎃y on the narrow roads.
Garmin-Cervelo and ♛Leopard Trek are oജn the front, with Alberto Contador also keeping out of trouble by riding at the front.
John Gadret (Ag2r) has punctured but is quickly going aga🍃in and now riding through the team cars and back to the peloton.
Ano🦋ther crash! This time Boonen and Steegmans are down.
Boonen is sat in the road and ൲seems a little stunned.
Boonen's race seems to be over. It l🌊ooks like he's fractured his collarbone.
Boonen is bravely back on his bike.
🅠He landed on his right shoulder and his jersey is ripped to shreds.
He's four minutes down on the peloton and seems to be stru𒁃ggling🗹 to hold the bars.
Garmin is on the front again. Race statis🐟tics has shown the US team has been on the front for 88% of the stage today.
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The 🅷race is passing through Saint Brieuc and will soon pass through Bernhard Hinault's home town. ♊;
Rღobert Gesink isജ at the back of the peloton. He seems a bit battered and bruised after his crash.
Tom Boonen is struggling fiv𓂃e minutes behind. He is on his own and blood is coming through his shorts on his right hip. 💝He's struggling to hold onto the bars with his right hand.
46km remaining from 158km
The pelotꦉon is lined out now. This is going𓆉 to be a crazy last hour of racing.
John Gadret is at the back agai📖n now. He's bene struggling with punctures and other proble♋ms today.
Addy Engels is now helping to pace Boonen but he is still suffering and off the back. He's 6:30 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbehind the peloton.
Remi Di Gregorio (Astana) flatted b♎ut🎶 is quickly away and chasing back on.
The peloton is in a woods but will soon hit the exposed coast road. The wind is ex♒pected to be a head/sidewind.
Tjallinghi now gets a new bike. While up front we ಞhave the first attack.
32km remaining from 158km
Rabobank sports director Erik Breukink informed Cyclingnews this morning that he wanted his riders to be as conservative as possible until the course turns right and crosswinds will torture the riders. “The most important thing for us is to protect Gesink. Taking the initiat𒁏ive in the formation of echelons fits into that plan as well,” Breukink told Cyclingnews. With Gesink hitting the asphalt earlier today that plan got disturbed. “There are a couple of good teams in this discipline like BMC, Leopard, Sky and maybe even Astana. They have nothing to lose in stage🐠s like this.”
28km remaining from 158km
24km remaining from 158km
The peloton is lined out.
Boonen is now eight minutes back.
Liquigas and Leopard Trekꦚ now on the front. This finale will be about protecting the big-name team 𓄧leaders.
Tension will be high in the peloton.
🐟The race is on narrow village roads. That helps the two breakways and slows the peloton.
Voeckler is giving it big licks on th🦩e front but surely the two can't hold off the chase for a further 20k🦄m.
A rider has hit the barriers.
It's an Euskaltel rider
18km remaining from 158km
15km remaining from 158km
Thor♚ Hushovd is near the front, trying to🐲 stay protected and avoid any crashes.
Fabian cancellara isalso on the front, tucked over his ha🅘ndlebars.
10km remaining from 158km
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The gap is down 💝to 30 second🐼s now. Roy is fading after being in the break yesterday.
♚Ryder Hesjedal has just done a massive turn for Garmin-Cervelo.
Astana put a trio of riders on theꦏ front now. the gap is now just 18 seconds.
Voeckler's tongue is hanging out of his m🎃outh now. He's suffering.
The peloton can see the two up the road.
Burghardt is൩ again protecting Cadel Evans. The Aussie is wearing the plka-💧dot jersey today.
5km remaining from 158km
Team Sky are riding to set up Swift or Boasson H💞agen today. and protect Wiggins.
HTC are riding for Cavendish and Goss.
Roy sits up but Voeckler goes again!
2km remaining from 158km
It has split behind but th☂ere are about 80 riders in the peloton.
Hondo leads the peloton to Voeckler. All togethe𝓰r.
A down hill section now. this is super fast.
Martin is off the front. gonig for it.!
Boasson Hagen blast past him. Can he hold on?
No.
It's a sprint finish.
Cavendish gets it ahead of Gilbert and Rojas.
That i♈s his 16th stage vic✨troy at the Tour de France.
That was a tough finale but Cavendish timed his move perfectly.&nb🍸sp;
He cameꦏ off Geraint Thomas' wheel and then powered to the line.
Thor Hushovd was up there too and so kept the yellow🐲 jersey.
Provisional results:
General classification after stage 5
1 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Team Garmin-Cervelo
2 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team 0:00:01
3 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:00:04
4 David Millar (GBr) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:00:08
5 Andreas Klöden (Ger) Team RadioShack 0:00:10
6 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling
7 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling 0:00:12
8 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling
9 Andy Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek
10 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Leopard Trek
As Cavendish celebrates and thanks his teammates, 𒐪that about wraps it up for our live coverag✅e today.
There will be full reu𝓰lts, reports, interviews and photo galleries💜 on Cyclingnews very soon.
A demain for stage six 💞from Dinan to Lisieux. At 226.5 it is the longest stage of this year's race.
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