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Le Tour 2020 – Stage 5 — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2020 – Stage 5

by Bryan

Tour de FranceGap > Privas

Distance: 183 kilometers.

A “Flat” stage with two minor climbs. It starts at 930 meters and descends to 183 meters at the finish.

  • Col de Serre Colon 130.0 km (cat 4: 4.1km @ 3.7%)
  • Côte de Saint-Vincent-de-Barrès 167.0 km (cat 4: 2.7km @ 4.2%)

The intermediate sprint is at 47.5 km at L’Epine.

Cycling News has the story of Julian Alaphilippe’s loss of the Yellow Jersey:

Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) is the new race leader of the Tour de France, after race commissaires handed down a time penalty to Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) for an illegal feed in the final 20km of stage 5 to Privas.
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Post-stage replays showed Alaphilippe taking a bidon from a Deceuninck-QuickStep soigneur with 17.1km to go during an otherwise quiet stage 5.

If you are not up on your cycling-French – one of the go-fors (soigneur) for his team gave Alaphilippe a fresh water bottle (bidon) when he was less than 20 kilometers from the finish. The race judges (commissaires) saw it on the replay and dinged him 20 seconds for violating race rules.

Yellow Jersey Adam Yates ( GBr – MTS – 161 ) [Yellow] 22h 28′ 30″
Green Jersey Sam Bennett ( Irl – DQT – 043 ) [Green] 123 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Benoit Cosnefroy ( Fra – ALM – 033 ) [Polka Dot] 23 points
White Jersey Tadej Pogacar ( Slo – UAD – 131 ) [White] 3

Stage winner: Wout van Aert ( Bel – TJV – 018 )
Combative: Wout Poels ( Ned – TBM – 067 ) [Red numbers]
Team: EF Pro Cycling ( EF1 – 071-078 ) [Yellow numbers]

Top 30 below the fold

1 Adam Yates ( GBr – MTS – 161 ) –
2 Primož Roglic ( Slo – TJV – 011 ) + 00h 00′ 03″
3 Tadej Pogacar ( Slo – UAD – 131 ) + 00h 00′ 07″
4 Guillaume Martin ( Fra – COF – 121 ) + 00h 00′ 09″
5 Egan Arley Bernal Gomez ( Col – INS – 001 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
6 Tom Dumoulin ( Ned – TJV – 014 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
7 Nairo Quintana ( Col – ARK – 081 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
8 Esteban Chaves ( Col – MTS – 164 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
9 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno ( Col – AST – 141 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
10 Romain Bardet ( Fra – ALM – 031 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
11 Bauke Mollema ( Ned – TFS – 104 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
12 Mikel Landa Meana ( Spa – TBM – 061 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
13 Thibaut Pinot ( Fra – GFC – 051 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
14 Rigoberto Uran ( Col – EF1 – 071 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
15 Richie Porte ( Aus – TFS – 101 ) + 00h 00′ 13″
16 Julian Alaphilippe ( Fra – DQT – 041 ) + 00h 00′ 16″
17 Emanuel Buchmann ( Ger – BOH – 022 ) + 00h 00′ 22″
18 Enric Mas Nicolau ( Spa – MOV – 094 ) + 00h 00′ 22″
19 Alejandro Valverde ( Spa – MOV – 091 ) + 00h 00′ 34″
20 Richard Carapaz ( Ecu – INS – 003 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
21 Sergio Andres Higuita Garcia ( Col – EF1 – 074 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
22 Damiano Caruso ( Ita – TBM – 063 ) + 00h 00′ 41″
23 Davide Formolo ( Ita – UAD – 134 ) + 00h 01′ 10″
24 Pierre Rolland ( Fra – BVC – 218 ) + 00h 01′ 10″
25 Pello Bilbao ( Spa – TBM – 062 ) + 00h 02′ 19″
26 Marc Soler ( Spa – MOV – 097 ) + 00h 02′ 40″
27 Domenico Pozzovivo ( Ita – NTT – 197 ) + 00h 02′ 42″
28 Greg Van Avermaet ( Bel – CCC – 111 ) + 00h 03′ 17″
29 Luis León Sanchez ( Spa – AST – 147 ) + 00h 03′ 35″
30 Fabio Aru ( Ita – UAD – 132 ) + 00h 03′ 37″

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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