Tour de France 2022 stage five live: Cobbles await as peloton prepares to enter ‘hell’

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There is a second trio on the road made up of Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech), Alexis Gougeard (B&B Hotels-KTM) and Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) and they are closing in on stage leaders Edvald Boassen-Hagen, Magnus Cort and Taco van der Hoorn. Just 11sec separates the two small groups, while the peloton is a minute down. Theis stage is being contested at breakneck speed.

Crash in the peloton, but thankfully just one rider – Max Walscheid (Cofidis) – went down. The German lost a handful of seconds, but after taking a bike change he was soon up and running, he enevn managed to give the TV cameras a thumbs up.

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