Tour de France 2025: Evenepoel wins stage five time trial as Pogacar takes yellow jersey -as it happened

28m ago 18.00 CEST The top five on GC 1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 17hr 22min 58sec (B16sec)

2. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) +42sec

3. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +59sec

4. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 13sec (B8sec)

5. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +1min 22sec Tadej Pogacar now holds the yellow, green and polka-dot jerseys.

Remco Evenepoel is in the white jersey.

Places six through to 10 are occupied by Mathieu van der Poel, Joao Almeida, Primoz Roglic, Florian Lipowitz and Mattias Skejlmose.

The Scottish rider Oscar Onley has dropped four places to 11th on GC and is 2min 41sec off the pace. Share

36m ago 17.53 CEST The top five in stage five 1. Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) 36min 42sec

2. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +16sec

3. Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease a Bike) +33sec

4. Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale)+35sec

5. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +49sec Share Updated at 17.53 CEST

42m ago 17.47 CEST General Classification: I’ll have all the official times shortly but suffice to say for the time being that Tadej Pogacar is the race leader from Remco Evenepoel by 42 seconds. Kevin Vauguelin has moved up to third, just 59 seconds off Pogacar’s time. Jonas Vingegaard drops to fourth and is 1min 13sec behind Pogacar. Matteo Jorgenson is a further nine seconds back, just ahead of Mathieu van der Poel. Scotland’s Oscar Onley drops out of the top 10. Share

49m ago 17.40 CEST Mathieu van der Poel: The maillot jaune finishes 1min 44sec down on Evenepoel, which is very decent performance, all things considered. He’ll lose the yellow jersey tonight but might fancy his chances of getting it back in the coming days. Remco Evenepoel wins the stage, Tadej Pogacar is second and in yellow, Edoardo Affini finishes third. Share Updated at 17.40 CEST

51m ago 17.38 CEST Remco Evenepoel wins the stage ... In the yellow jersey he is about to surrender to Tadej Pogacar, Mathieu van der Poel is still out on the road but he won’t be getting near Evenepoel’s time. The Belgian justifies his heavy favouritism for this stage and looks pleased with himself as he warms down on a stationary bike while shooting the breeze with his wife Oumaïma. Share

53m ago 17.36 CEST Tadej Pogacar riders into yellow ... The Slovenian takes the lead on General Classification and takes some serious time off Jonas Vingegaard, more of which anon. Share

54m ago 17.34 CEST Jonas Vingegaard: The Danish Visma-Lease A Bike team leader has had a shocker and finishes with a time of 38min 03sec, a full 1min 21sec down on Remco Evenepoel. Share

1h ago 17.31 CEST Kevin Vauquelin: The local lad finishes 49 seconds behind Evenepoel and will lose the white jersey to the Belgian but he should be very proud of himself today. That was a terrific performance. Share

1h ago 17.29 CEST Jonas Vingegaard: As things stand out on the road, Tadej Pogacar is taking about a minute out of his main GC rival. Share

1h ago 17.28 CEST Kevin Vauqeulin: The white jersey is in his native Normandy, is enjoying a terrific ride and overtakes Enric Mass, who started two minutes before him. Share

1h ago 17.26 CEST Jonas Vingegaard: The Dane is having a bad day at the office and is over a minute down on a Remco Evenepoel. A minute and five seconds, to be exact and it could get a lot worse before his afternoon is out. View image in fullscreen Jonas Vingegaard is really struggling out there. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 17.33 CEST

1h ago 17.24 CEST Joao Almeida: The Portuguese finishes over a minute down. Share

1h ago 17.22 CEST Remco Evenepoel is in the lead!!! The Belgian takes over in the lead, beating Edoardo Affini’s time by 33 seconds after a near perfect ride against the clock. The time to beat is 36min 42sec but will it be enough to get him into yellow? It seems unlikely, given how well Pogacar is riding. Share

1h ago 17.20 CEST Kevin Vauquelin: “You’re quicker than Roglic! Quicker than Vingegaard! Quicker than Jorgenson!” The young Frenchman’s directeur sportif is giving him a hell of a pep-talk over the radio but despite his heroic effort, Vauquelin looks nailed on to lose the white jersey to Remco Evenepoel. Share

1h ago 17.18 CEST Tadej Pogacar: The Slovenian is 30 seconds quicker than Jonas Vingegaard at the second checkpoint. View image in fullscreen Tadej Pogacar is flying! Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Share Updated at 17.20 CEST

1h ago 17.17 CEST Tadej Pogacar: Cycling on the limit, Pogacar is 10 seconds behind Evenepoel as things stand, while Vingegaard is 50 seconds down on the leading time out on the road. Evenepoel is heading for the stage win while Pogacar looks set to take the yellow jersey. Share

1h ago 17.13 CEST Remco Evenepoel: The Soudal-Quick Step rider gains 20 seconds between the first and second checkpoint. Share

1h ago 17.12 CEST An email: “Every time I see a TT stage it reminds me how damned ugly and ungainly TT bikes are,” writes James Davison. “For a mere mortal like me they look unrideable. But then I’m still a fan of the pre-carbon roadbike and will maintain they still look like proper racing bikes (I have a 1998 Bianchi replica of Pantani’s Tour/Giro double bike). However, having seen TT bikes in the carbon, so to speak, at a few Tour of Britain stages in the past few years, they do make an intriguing and very impressive noise at full chat.” Share

1h ago 17.11 CEST Mathieu van der Poel: It is safe to say that the yellow jersey will be changing hands in 30 minutes or so, as Van der Poel is not having a good day in the saddle. Share

1h ago 17.09 CEST Tadej Pogacar: The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider, race favourite and defending champion stops the clock at the first checkpoint with a time just one second slower than that posted by Evenepoel. Share

1h ago 17.07 CEST Tadej Pogacar: Early estimates suggest Pogacar is 15 seconds faster than Evenepoel but he has yet to hit the first checkpoint. Vingegaard was seventh fastest through the first checkpoint, 20 seconds slower than Evenepoel. Share

1h ago 17.06 CEST Jonas Vingegaard: The Dane is 14 seconds down on Evenepoel at the first checkpoint. Share

1h ago 17.03 CEST Remco Evenepoel: The Belgian is eight seconds slower than Affini at the second checkpoint. Share Updated at 17.04 CEST

1h ago 17.01 CEST Mathieu van der Poel is away ... On his third day in the yellow jersey, our race leader flies down the start ramp and today’s GC battle is on in earnest. Share

1h ago 16.59 CEST Tadej Pogacar is away ... He sets off wearing a polka-dot skinsuit. Just one rider to go … Share Updated at 16.59 CEST

2h ago 16.58 CEST Jonas Vingegaard is away ... And now there are just two riders left to start: Tour favourite Tadej Pogacar and the maillot jaune Mathieu van der Poel. Share

2h ago 16.55 CEST Remco Evenepoel: The stage favourite passes the first checkpoint four seconds quicker than our leader, Affini. Share Updated at 16.55 CEST

2h ago 16.53 CEST Primoz Roglic: The five-times Grand Tour winner (Vueltas x 4 and a Giro) is well off the pace out on the road and was almost 30 seconds down on the best time posted at the first timecheck thus far. The last of the riders are cycling into a strong headwind, which is excellent news for our clubhouse leader Edoardo Affini. In fifth place on GC and wearing the white jersey, Kevin Vauquelin is next down the ramp of the starting hut. Share

2h ago 16.48 CEST An email: “Some pundits get overly reminiscent as they get older but Sean Kelly is still top of his game, up to date on tech, riders and tactics, and deadpan in his delivery of his more outlandish cycling prizes,” writes Matthew Lysaght. “Long may he remain on the mic.” Share

2h ago 16.47 CEST Joao Almeida: The Team Emirates-XRG rider from Portugal sets off. Share

2h ago 16.45 CEST Remco Evenepoel is away ... Now we’re sucking diesel – the white-hot odds-on favourite for this stage from the Soudal-Quick Step team sets off like a bat out of hell. View image in fullscreen Remco Evenepoel takes to the road… Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Share Updated at 17.00 CEST

2h ago 16.40 CEST Edoardo Affini: We’re finally getting to that point of the stage where the Italian will be getting twitchy in that leader’s throne of his. The faint hope that his time might actually be good enough to win this ITT, clouded by the near certainty that it almost certainly won’t be because the Big Boys have yet to start. Primoz Roglic is next to go … Share

2h ago 16.34 CEST An email: “The short answer to Mark from Florida’s question about team cars following each rider is: no,” writes Ailsa. “Riders further down the rankings can sometimes end up with a publicity-caravan vehicle instead. I’m not sure how the cyclist’s performance is affected by having a motorised saucisson in their wake, but I’d love to know.” Share

2h ago 16.33 CEST Happy birthday Harry Sweeney: The Aussie EF Education-EasyPost rider, whose 27th birthday it is today, finishes almost four minutes down on our leader Eoardo Affini. We’re down to the last 16 riders, who will start at two-minute intervals. Share

2h ago 16.17 CEST An email: Ted Raney writes: “I think it was the great Indian pundit Gaurav Modgil who observed that the reason Europeans never took to cricket was that if they needed a sport which took days, where very little happened and that allowed them to doze on the sofa for hours listening to rambling commentary they already had cycling,” he says. Share Updated at 16.17 CEST

2h ago 16.13 CEST Wout van Aert: The Visma-Lease A Bike rider passes the first checkpoint 1min 47sec down on the best time so far. Share Updated at 16.13 CEST

2h ago 16.12 CEST An email: “Is there an official team car behind every cyclist?” asks Mark From Florida. “What with 20 or so cyclists on the ITT course at the same time, that would be a lot of official vehicles. Do teams ever run out of cars to follow their cyclists? One team could have like 4 cyclists on the road at one time.” That is a very good question and one to which I do not have an answer. My educated guess is that if there’s a possibility a team can’t follow each of its riders, they’ll focus on the one they have highest hopes for and the “lesser” rider will have to rely on a floating official Tour de France race car and mechanic to deal with any issues. There don’t seem to have been too punctures or other mechanical issues this afternoon. Share

2h ago 16.06 CEST Sepp Cuss: The latest Visma-Lease A Bike rider to take his turn sets off, which means there are just 32 riders left to take to the course. Share

2h ago 16.04 CEST The provisional top five on stage five 1. Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease a Bike): 37min 15'sec

2. Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale): +2sec

3. Ivan Romeo (Movistar): +29sec

4. Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla): +44sec

5. Pablo Castrillo (Movistar): +45sec View image in fullscreen Edoardo Affini is our current clubhouse leader Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters Share

2h ago 16.01 CEST Wout is out! Wout van Aert rolls down the starting ramp and is away. Even in these very early stages, you can tell he’s taking it handy and not going for victory in this stage. He came into this race on the back of an illness that ruled him out of the Belgian Championship and is probably using today as a recovery day. Share

3h ago 15.50 CEST TNT Sports: With the big guns yet to get going, they’re pasing the time as best they can on the network’s commentary. Race analyst Sean Kelly has just recounted the time he won a spot prize of a live cow in a criterium he was competing in after the Tour de France back in the day. Living in Belgium at the time, he tells commentator Carton Kirby that he opted to have it killed, butchered, freezer-wrapped and sent to his home, so that he and his pals could dine like kings. I’m not sure that was the happy ending to the story that Kirby was hoping for. View image in fullscreen Top marks for effort. Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA Share Updated at 16.49 CEST

3h ago 15.45 CEST Julian Alaphilippe: The Frenchman rolls over the finish line over three minutes down on the leading time of 37min 15sec after a leisurely trip around the circuit. Tobias Foss won’t be unseating stage leader Edoardo Affini from the Big Chair either. The Norwegian champion finishes almost 53 seconds off the pace. View image in fullscreen Julian Alaphilippe finishes a little off the pace. Photograph: Martin Divíšek/EPA Share Updated at 15.59 CEST

3h ago 15.35 CEST Tadej Pogacar: The reigning Tour de France champion sets off on his race of truth at 3.58pm (BST) and will be seeking to win his second consecutive stage in this year’s race. Following his win yesterday, he was in an understandably good mood. “I couldn’t dream for a better finish than today’s,” he said. “To beat one of the best of the world in road cycling, especially in this kind of finishes and to reach [career] 100 victories in the Tour de France with the rainbow jersey, it’s incredible. “The plan was to go full on this climb. I didn’t know exactly how long it would be so maybe I could have put in a little bit more towards the top but I think Jonas [Vingegaard] would have been with me anyway. I expected him to follow. In a way, it was perfect, because everyone’s legs were tired and the next attacks were not as strong as they would have been. “Joao [Almeida] did an amazing job to lead me out until the very end. I’m super happy and proud with the team. With so many good riders in such a finale, you’re always a bit on the edge, you never know what’s gonna happen. It gives you adrenaline, it’s beautiful racing and I enjoy it. Tomorrow is the real test. It’s about having the legs. It’s not Formula 1, it’s cycling, and you need the legs to push.” Share Updated at 15.36 CEST

3h ago 15.18 CEST Tobias Foss: The Ineos Grenadiers rider, a World Champion at this discipline three years ago, is out on the course wearing the Norwegian national team jersey. Share

3h ago 15.15 CEST Normandy American Cemetery: Today’s stage takes place near the Normandy American Cemetry, which contains the graves of nearly 9,400 war dead and nearly 1,600 names on the Walls of the Missing. It overlooks Omaha Beach, where many of those interred in the cemetery lost their lives on D-Day. Normandy American Cemetery Share

3h ago 15.06 CEST An email: “Purely by chance, I was in Pisa in May when it hosted the finish of the Giro’s ITT,” writes Gary Naylor. “Apart from the usual Tuscan rain I always seem to catch, it was noticeable that the road surface was pretty ropey and looked scary even in the dry. I was also surprised that many riders pretty much coasted in, which made the ones going full gas (like Josh Tarling) look like they were on motorbikes. A minute or two on the road looks like a helluva lot more than that when the rider is a low barrier and four feet away at 45mph.” View image in fullscreen You absolutely love to see it. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images Share Updated at 15.10 CEST

3h ago 15.05 CEST Julian Alaphillipe: The mercurial Frenchman and Tudor Pro Cycling veteran rolls the ramp and is sent on his way by a raucous crowd who clearly adore him. Share

3h ago 14.59 CEST Bruno Armirail comes up just short!!! The clock turns red 2.47 seconds before the French ITT champion crosses the line. Edoardo Affini remains in the Big Chair and 37min 15sec is still the time to beat. Share

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