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Former Giro d'Italia champion Jai Hindley seized the Tour de France's yellow jersey on Wednesday after claiming the first mountain stage of this year's race during an eventful ride in the Pyrenees.
LARUNS, France: Tadej Pogacar was expected to attack in the Tour de France's first mountain stage, yet it was defending champion Jonas Vingegaard who struck first, leaving the Slovenian worried and hoping he will regain his best form before it is too late.
Jonas Vingegaard's biggest rival for the yellow jersey at the 2023 Tour de France is Jai Hindley (Bora-hansgrohe), not Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), EF Education–EasyPost boss Jonathan Vaughters claimed on The Breakaway after a Stage 5 thriller. Hindley grabbed the overall race lead with a brilliant solo win on Wednesday, with Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) obliterating Pogacar on the final climb to suggest the pre-race script of a two-horse race was all wrong.
Jai Hindley ripped up the script for the Tour de France as he took the yellow jersey from Adam Yates with a breakaway victory in the Pyrenees while Jonas Vingegaard left chief rival Tadej Pogacar in his wake when he set off in pursuit. All the talk in the build-up to this Tour has been on the battle between defending champion Vingegaard and two-time winner Pogacar, but Hindley slipped into a strong breakaway on the road out of Pau and so ensured the general classification had been ripped up 163 kilometres later in Laruns.
Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard won a tactical battle with key rival Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates as Australian Jai Hindley won Stage 5 of the Tour de France on Wednesday.
Never underestimate a Giro d’Italia winner – and on the first day in the Pyrenees, the big general classification favourites did just that, allowing debutant Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) into a dangerous break and paving the way for the Australia’s glorious win and the yellow jersey. Hindley, the 2022 Giro winner, now leads the Tour by 47 seconds on defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma).
LARUNS, France : Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard laid down an early marker on the Tour de France with a brutal attack that left his main rival Tadej Pogacar gasping for air in the first mountain stage on Wednesday.
It could be a day for a breakaway as the Tour de France heads into the Pyrenees for the first time on Stage 5. It's been a hugely eventful start to the Tour, with Tuesday's stage seeing three crashes in the finale, to go with the early dominance of UAE Team Emirates. Ad And after a couple of days for the sprinters, it's onto more hilly terrain as we get our first look at the mountains in this year's edition.