Critérium du Dauphiné stage 5 live – A lumpy day for the breakaway?

After yesterday’s time trial, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) is leading the GC, but only by four seconds over second-placed Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe).

After a super strong TT, green jersey Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is also only 14 seconds away from yellow, so he might be looking at today’s profile and thinking a stint in the maillot jaune is possible.

Today is a hard stage to predict. The start and finish are both flat, but the four categorised climbs in the second half of the day could lend themselves to late attacks, or a breakaway survival.

12.2km of neutral today – long! And then 183km of the real stage.

Neutral start

And they’re away for the neutral

Hi everyone, I’m Matilda and I’ll be taking you through today’s stage.

The riders are about to roll out for the neutral.

Hello and welcome to Cyclingnews’ live coverage of stage 5 of the Critérium du Dauphiné!