Tour de France 2022 stage five live: Peloton hits cobbles as riders enter ‘hell’

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Primoz Roglic is chasing back on, attempting to weave his way through the team cars. He has no team-mates though as they have all dropped back to assist Jonas Vingegaard. The Dutch squad's Tour de France could be unravelling here.

Primoz Roglic has crashed, as has Caleb Ewan. Tadej Pogacar, meanwhile, remains the best placed of the general classification riders. Roglic is, as it stands, riding on his lonesome alongside his team car.

Wout van Aert is playing a team role and has dropped back out of the peloton and is waiting for team-mate Jonas Vingegaard who he will then help chase back on. Vingegaard currently has Tiesj Benoot and Nathan Van Hooydonck riding for him. If he cannot close this gap, he will be losing an age of time.

Jonas Vingegaard is having a nightmare. The Dane takes a bike from the team car, but it was way too big for him and he is forced to stop and take another one from a Jumbo-Visma team-mate Steven Kruijswijk. The breakaway leads by 1min 51sec, while the big unit that is Nils Politt sits at the head of the chasing peloton. Tadej Pogacar is looking supreme on these cobbles, the absolute picture of serenity while all around him chaos ensues.

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) has been dropped. I repeat, Mathieu van der Poel has been dropped. Wow. Utter chaos out in northern France right now where the wind has picked up and the riders are having to deal with huge plumes of dust on each sector of cobbles.

Note: always stand upwind when spectating on a dry Paris-Roubaix day pic.twitter.com/PJZHo2CGtn

Dylan van Baarle leads the peloton on to sector