Tadej Pogacar rides through cobbles and chaos to lay down Tour gauntlet - The Guardian

Tadej Pogacar, the defending Tour de France champion, threw down the gauntlet in a chaotic fifth stage, the UAE Emirates rider leaving his major rivals in the distance in the heat and dust of the cobbled roads of northern France

Chaos reigned in the Hell of the North as the fifth stage of the Tour de France hit the dreaded cobbled roads of the Franco-Belgian border, with crashes, punctures and panic, plus a stray hay bale, g… [+3632 chars]

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