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2025-06-19T10:49:46.329Z
The yellow jersey group is 22 seconds behind, but more attacks are coming in this aggressive start to start 5.
2025-06-19T10:48:59.663Z
The front group has split up, with five riders getting away with the Julierpass’ summit approaching: Bilbao, Powless, Romo, Vlasov and Fortunato.
2025-06-19T10:48:19.821Z
It’s now 19 riders in the lead with a slim advantage: Bilbao, Powless, Romo, Vlasov, Christen, Fortunato, Izagirre, Buratti, Bisiaux, Swift, López, Simmons, Quintana, Barta, Vansevenant, Bettiol, Blackmore, Houle and Bax.
2025-06-19T10:46:06.225Z
The group in front has grown again in size. Christen, Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Nairo Quintana, Will Barta (Movistar), Aleksandr Vlasov (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), Mauri Vansevenant (Soudal-QuickStep), Lorenzo Fortunato (XDS-Astana), Joe Blackmore and Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech) are the latest to jump across.
2025-06-19T10:43:36.731Z
A look back at the original 12-man break. Two of them have dropped and been replaced by chasers, with more riders now trying to bridge across on the Julierpass climb.
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2025-06-19T10:41:12.652Z
Lemmen has now made contact in front, restoring the breakaway to its original size of 12 riders. Askey and Haller dropped, López and the Dutchman replacing them on this first climb.
2025-06-19T10:40:29.188Z
Another counterattack was tried by Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), but that was quickly caught back by the bunch.
2025-06-19T10:39:32.453Z
165km to go
2025-06-19T10:38:44.973Z
López has made contact with those in front. Lemmen is a bit further behind, but the peloton is now just 15 seconds in arrears.
2025-06-19T10:37:48.638Z
Lots of riders are beginning to struggle at the back of the main bunch. This will be a very long day in the saddle for those forming the grupetto.
2025-06-19T10:36:51.663Z
It’s Juanpe López (Lidl-Trek) and Bart Lemmen (Visma-Lease a Bike) who have attacked out of the peloton. They both lost time yesterday.
2025-06-19T10:35:48.688Z
Askey is the first rider to drop from the 12-man move, with counterattacks now coming from the peloton.
2025-06-19T10:35:15.954Z
The start of the climb has hurt the break’s chances, with the gap cut down already to 30 seconds.
2025-06-19T10:32:36.434Z
At the foot of the Julierpass climb (7.3km at 6.5%), the gap from the peloton to the breakaway was at 50 seconds.
2025-06-19T10:28:00.425Z
170km to go
2025-06-19T10:27:22.997Z
Here’s the moment the original trio of Romo, Bilbao and Swift got away.
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2025-06-19T10:25:37.137Z
That large leading group now has 25 seconds on the chasing peloton.
2025-06-19T10:25:17.829Z
With 174km to go, the new leading break is as follows: Bilbao, Swift, Romo, Felix Engelhardt (Jayco AlUla), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Nicolò Buratti (Bahrain Victorious), Léo Bisiaux (Decathlon Ag2R La Mondiale), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ), Alberto Bettiol (XDS-Astana), Sjoerd Bax (Q36.5) and Marco Haller (Tudor).
2025-06-19T10:23:03.814Z
That trio had built a slim 10-second lead, but they have been joined by 9 more riders to form a leading group of 12.
2025-06-19T10:19:34.090Z
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Ben Swift (Ineos Grenadiers) and Javier Romo (Movistar) have broken away slightly as a trio, with more counters coming from behind them.
2025-06-19T10:17:30.835Z
Several early attacks are being launched in anticipation of the first climb, Julierpass.
2025-06-19T10:16:55.260Z
Here’s a look at the jersey wearers on stage 5. From left to right, Felix Engelhardt (Jayco AlUla) leads the King of the Mountains classification, João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) the points, Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) is wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, looking after it on behalf of Romain Grégoire (Grouapama-FDJ), who is wearing the race leader’s yellow jersey.
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2025-06-19T10:13:59.290Z
183km to go
2025-06-19T10:10:39.696Z
No abandons this morning, so all 141 riders who finished yesterday have taken the start of stage 5.
2025-06-19T10:09:42.694Z
The riders are gone from the neutralised roll out and there’s been a crash for two riders and some mechanical issues.
2025-06-19T10:07:59.107Z
Here’s Grégoire ahead of the stage start, chatting with compatriot Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor) after they worked well together to bring the yellow jersey back to his rivals.
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2025-06-19T10:05:34.450Z
Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) will start the day as the GC leader, but he’s faced some criticism from second-place overall Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) after riding defensively in yesterday’s final:
2025-06-19T09:57:01.123Z
Climbs on stage 5
2025-06-19T09:54:11.071Z
Here’s a look at the profile for the Queen stage, with climbing arriving soon after the start. It should bring quite the fight for the breakaway.
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2025-06-19T09:53:06.482Z
Under 15 minutes until the start of stage 5 now.
2025-06-19T09:50:32.575Z
Nice words from Bahrain Victorious DS Michał Gołaś on an emotional day for Gino Mäder’s team. They’ll be racing hard with him in mind, as always.
🇨🇭 #TourdeSuisse | ST 5🚩 La Punt🏁 Santa Maria in Calanca📏 183.8km🗣️ SD @golasmichal : “It’s an emotional day for us. Every day we ride for Gino — but today, even more so.” @tds @rideforGino_ #RideAsOne pic.twitter.com/edPmfP40zAJune 19, 2025
2025-06-19T09:48:16.160Z
If you missed yesterday’s stage in the mountains, catch up with the action and João Almeida beginning his comeback on GC with our race report:
Tour de Suisse: João Almeida goes solo on the Splügenpass for stage 4 victory
2025-06-19T09:41:04.833Z
An emotional moment from the start of stage 5, as a new memorial to Gino Mäder is unveiled on the Albulapass. La Punt was the finish location of the stage where he tragically passed away two years ago.
We still miss you Gino🖤 But now we have a place to come by and always remember you as an inspiring person🕊️.#rideforgino pic.twitter.com/0RSvyKmJ7hJune 19, 2025
2025-06-19T09:33:50.353Z
Just over 30 minutes until the start of stage 5 in La Punt, near Switzerland’s border with Italy.
2025-06-19T09:22:29.611Z
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