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Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) narrowly avoided disaster on Stage 5 of the Tour de France as he crashed and then nearly hit a team car. The race leader first got into problems with 96km to go with some road furniture bringing him down.
Belgian Wout Van Aert celebrated his latest Tour de France trick by flapping arms as he crossed the line, claiming: “The Yellow Jersey gives you wings.”
The wait is almost over. The riders are taking in the sights of Copenhagen; all Covid tests have been taken and eleventh-hour substitutes drafted in; Quick-Step have finished toying with fans over their lamentable will-they-won’t-they selection of Mark Cavendish (they won’t); at least seven teams have released new or limited edition Tour kits; even EF Education-EasyPost have awoken from their dreams of dragons and deigned to make their cutesy eight-man squad selection known a few seconds before the deadline… Some 3,328km of rampant riding over the roads of Denmark, France, Belgium and Switzerland now lie in store, along with 20km of cobbles, 18km of exposed sea bridge, over 53km of time trialling, 61 categorised climbs and no fewer than six mountaintop finishes.
It’s time for the big one. The race to which everyone in cycling will be glued for three weeks, but that even your mum will hear something about on the Radio 4 news bulletin that precedes Gardeners' Question Time. With the Grand Depart in Denmark fast approaching, you’ve got just enough time to prepare your answers to the questions that will inevitably come your way from the casual… Why is that man who’s seven minutes in front not going to win the race? Who’s that lovely sounding Irish chap? What do the riders do when they need to pee? Ad/> The circus comes to Copenhagen on July 1 and the gladiators will parade the fabled Avenue des Champs-Elysees some 23 days later.
A fortnight on Friday, if all goes according to plan, Filippo Ganna will start his first Tour de France. When he does so, the Italian will have more pressure on his shoulders than most.