Tour de France 2024 Stage 5 Highlights
Tour de France 2024 Stage 5 Highlights
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00:0071 kilometers an hour pretty rapid at the front of the race
00:04Russo with his breakaway companion they're trying to up the tempo by the looks of things a little bit here
00:14on to the climb the first climb of the day the fourth category climb
00:19one point on offer at the top one and a half kilometers in length at 4.3 percent
00:25there's the vital statistics valentine parry plant is the king of the mountains here Nico
00:31but we reach the top of the first climb of today's stage huge number of fans the top of the
00:38Côte de Cheval Blanc fourth category climb Russo secures the one point the caravan is now arriving
00:46at the finish line everybody gets their gadgets and everything oh big crash a number of riders
00:52have just hit the center reservation not seen that and who is down about
01:01bilbao is down also down is uh
01:09oh today was very close there it was actually bagacha i think that
01:13kind of caused that crash i'd like to see that again he was held up
01:23yeah yeah it was um let's take another look here slow motion how how did he not crash
01:33that's incredible and my gets ready to fire his lead out train not doing a good job there
01:40and he kind of got washed away because his lead out held him up
01:44pedersen goes through to the front and it's bennett on the other side and it's pedersen
01:50from bennett with gamay just alongside phillipson
01:57a nice fist bump between these two riders
02:02nicely just move to the side let the peloton pass
02:06grief or crash here problem for one of the riders it's christoph christoph has crashed
02:15it's slick and a little bit dicey out here for the riders now on this running
02:21what happened uh you're like oh there's more up there's another crash one rider
02:27hits the deck looks a little bit like christoph laporte has gone down the european champion
02:35and the little bit of rain also is adding to the spice of this stage
02:38so
02:43nico another turn coming up another turn coming up it's like the company are taking the lead
02:51company has come through so aerodynamic opens up two or three meters already on the rest of the
02:56peloton looks around for he doesn't then christoph laporte's in the colors of the european champion
03:02bagatia is there the team of barhain victorious move up with phil bauhaus they know where they
03:07want to be and that's on the wheel of cavendish until 1k to go it still goes a little bit more
03:13to the left and then as you mentioned earlier on 200 meters to go the curve to the right
03:17what is going to be dangerous with all the swinging around from the riders when they've
03:21done their turns vander paul almost hit the wheel of the man here goes the attack attack from a
03:28ransom leaning over on each other phillipson is not prepared to give an inch here he gets on the
03:35wheel of matthew vander paul now he has a chance to sprint cavendish gets ready on the wheel of
03:42phillips and he's not with his cavendish bumps one rider out the way
03:48really dicey now 400 meters to go the sprint opens up with ryan gibbons on the left hand side
03:55on his wheel is marraine vandenberg also pascal ackerman a big swooping right hand turn pascal
04:02mark cavendish mark cavendish dives to the right hand side oh big crash mark cavendish all the way
04:08to the line record breaker stage 35 in a tour de france what an incredible sprint we saw the team a
04:18lot more composed than they were the last couple of days incredible finish when he sees the line
04:23he has an open straight there's no stopping him the record has gone mark cavendish the legend
04:32has been written cavendish is now the holder of stages in the tour de france
04:40he wins stage five to pure speed absolute class cavendish wins the stage
04:46great performance by christophe to come back to the sprint coca once again always there