2024 Tour de France Stage 5 Live Coverage
Welcome to our live coverage of Stage 5 of the 2024 Tour de France! Our live profile and commentary are below, followed by a preview of the technical aspects of the route.
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The 5th stage of the Tour de France is 177 kilometres long and travels from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to a likely bunch sprint in Saint-Vulbas.
Saint-Vulbas saw its last pro-peloton finish in the 2016 Criterium du Dauphiné. Two riders who retired in 2023 battled for the win. Nacer Bouhanni bested Jens Debusschere by a tiny margin, while Sam Bennett sprinted to third place.
The people in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne are more used to large groups of superfit men in lycra. The town in the foothills of the Alps saw two Tour de France stage starts in the last decade. On both occasions, the riders were up for a day of hardships in the high mountains. The race went to La Toussuirre in 2015 (Romain Bardet won) and to Tignes in 2019 (Egan Bernal won).
This time, the riders leave the Alps and head in the opposite direction. Saint-Vulbas is situated on the west bank of the Rhône.
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