Tour de France 2023 – Jai Hindley soars into yellow with Stage 5 win as Jonas Vingegaard cracks Tadej Pogacar

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).

The Dane also had a day to remember – attacking his big rival Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) on the Col du Marie Blanque to take over a minute from the two-time winner from Slovenia. Ad On a day to forget for UAE Team Emirates, Britain’s Adam Yates conceded the yellow jersey to Hindley and dropped to fifth place on the new-look GC, one place ahead of Pogacar, who saw his 11-second lead over Vingegaard morph into a deficit of 53 seconds.

Tour de France'We laugh about it' — Van Aert on rumours of Jumbo-Visma tensions03/07/2023 AT 13:05 The damage was done on the third and final climb on the first of two days in the Pyrenees when Vingegaard rode clear of Pogacar after some expert pacing from his American team-mate Sepp Kuss. As the white jersey of Pogacar dug deep to limit his losses, Vingegaard – who had three Jumbo team-mates up the road as satellite riders – soared past remnants of the day’s large breakaway in pursuit of lone leader, Hindley.

Hindley crested the summit of the Marie Blanque with a 20-second lead over Austria’s Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroen), the new polka dot jersey, and had to keep his cool on a technical descent ahead of the fast run into the finish at Laruns. Vingegaard joined forces with Gall, Italy’s Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and Hindley’s Bora team-mate Emanuel Buchmann, the German champion, to set up a