Profile, timetables, a trunty time pronounced for Remco Evenepoel? The 5th stage around Caen in questions

The first individual time in this large loop will have the Norman countryside for theater, with a 33 -kilometer loop around Caen on Wednesday.

Are we going to attend a change of yellow jersey at the end of this timed exercise? In the aftermath of the victory of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) in Rouen, the first time trial of this 112nd Tour de France awaits the runners for the 5th stage, Wednesday July 9. The leader's tunic of Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is threatened by the Slovenian, his dolphin returned in the same second, before this day around Caen, who celebrates his millennium in 2025.

What is the profile?

On the program, we will have the right to a 33 -kilometer loop in the Calvados campaign with a globally flat route, which should allow pure and powerful specialists to illustrate. After a passage in front of the Caen memorial, museum in particular dedicated to the landing in Normandy, Large flat roads will offer a privileged playground for large rollers. We will have a total of three intermediate points, placed every eight kilometers, in Cambes-en-Plaine, Thaon and Gruchy.

What favorites?

Like specialists Filippo Ganna (ineos grenadiers) and the Swiss Stefan Bissegger (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale) have abandoned, we head straight for a fight between favorites for the gain in the stage. Starting with Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma-Lease A Bike, 3rd to 8 “), who can dispossess Mathieu van der Poel of the yellow jersey.

Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step, 9th to 58 “) should not be outdone either on a route that suits him perfectly. But it is not at best at the start of the round, after being slowed down in a fall on Saturday and fell on Monday. If the double world champion and Olympic champion of the discipline was borrowed, Wout Van Aert (Team Visma-Lease A Bike) or Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG) appear as two candidates credible to victory.

Main departures

12h57 : start of broadcast on France 3 and france.tv.

First departure: 1:05 p.m.