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2025-06-19T10:49:46.329Z<\/p>\n
The yellow jersey group is 22 seconds behind, but more attacks are coming in this aggressive start to start 5.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:48:59.663Z<\/p>\n
The front group has split up, with five riders getting away with the Julierpass’ summit approaching: Bilbao, Powless, Romo, Vlasov and Fortunato.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:48:19.821Z<\/p>\n
It’s now 19 riders in the lead with a slim advantage: Bilbao, Powless, Romo, Vlasov, Christen, Fortunato, Izagirre, Buratti, Bisiaux, Swift, L\u00f3pez, Simmons, Quintana, Barta, Vansevenant, Bettiol, Blackmore, Houle and Bax.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:46:06.225Z<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:43:36.731Z<\/p>\n
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 Two of them have dropped and been replaced by chasers, with more riders now trying to bridge across on the Julierpass climb.<\/p>\n
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2025-06-19T10:41:12.652Z<\/p>\n
Lemmen has now made contact in front, restoring the breakaway to its original size of 12 riders. Askey and Haller dropped, L\u00f3pez and the Dutchman replacing them on this first climb.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:40:29.188Z<\/p>\n
Another counterattack was tried by Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), but that was quickly caught back by the bunch.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:39:32.453Z
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Marco Haller is the next rider from the break to drop.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:38:44.973Z<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez has made contact with those in front. Lemmen is a bit further behind, but the peloton is now just 15 seconds in arrears.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:37:48.638Z<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:36:51.663Z<\/p>\n
It’s Juanpe L\u00f3pez (Lidl-Trek) and Bart Lemmen (Visma-Lease a Bike) who have attacked out of the peloton. They both lost time yesterday.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:35:48.688Z<\/p>\n
Askey is the first rider to drop from the 12-man move, with counterattacks now coming from the peloton.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:35:15.954Z<\/p>\n
The start of the climb has hurt the break’s chances, with the gap cut down already to 30 seconds.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:32:36.434Z<\/p>\n
At the foot of the Julierpass climb (7.3km at 6.5%), the gap from the peloton to the breakaway was at 50 seconds.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:28:00.425Z
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The gap to the 12-man break is growing, now at 45 seconds with the first categorised climb approaching.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:27:22.997Z<\/p>\n
Here’s the moment the original trio of Romo, Bilbao and Swift got away.<\/p>\n
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2025-06-19T10:25:37.137Z<\/p>\n
That large leading group now has 25 seconds on the chasing peloton.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:25:17.829Z<\/p>\n
With 174km to go, the new leading break is as follows: Bilbao, Swift, Romo, Felix Engelhardt (Jayco AlUla), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Nicol\u00f2 Buratti (Bahrain Victorious), L\u00e9o 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).<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:23:03.814Z<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:19:34.090Z<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:17:30.835Z<\/p>\n
Several early attacks are being launched in anticipation of the first climb, Julierpass.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:16:55.260Z<\/p>\n
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, Jo\u00e3o Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) the points, K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (Ark\u00e9a-B&B Hotels) is wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, looking after it on behalf of Romain Gr\u00e9goire (Grouapama-FDJ), who is wearing the race leader’s yellow jersey.<\/p>\n
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2025-06-19T10:13:59.290Z
\n183km to go<\/p>\n
Official start given on stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse!<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:10:39.696Z<\/p>\n
No abandons this morning, so all 141 riders who finished yesterday have taken the start of stage 5.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:09:42.694Z<\/p>\n
The riders are gone from the neutralised roll out and there’s been a crash for two riders and some mechanical issues.<\/p>\n
2025-06-19T10:07:59.107Z<\/p>\n
Here’s Gr\u00e9goire 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.<\/p>\n
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2025-06-19T10:05:34.450Z<\/p>\n
Romain Gr\u00e9goire (Groupama-FDJ) will start the day as the GC leader, but he’s faced some criticism from second-place overall K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (Ark\u00e9a-B&B Hotels) after riding defensively in yesterday’s final:<\/p>\n
‘You have to respect it, but it sucks’ \u2013 Tour de Suisse GC challenger K\u00e9vin Vauquelin criticises race leader Romain Gr\u00e9goire for lack of collaboration<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 2025-06-19T09:57:01.123Z There are four category 1 climbs awaiting the riders on the 183.8km route to Santa Maria in Calanca: 2025-06-19T09:54:11.071Z<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n (Image credit: Tour de Suisse)<\/p>\n 2025-06-19T09:53:06.482Z<\/p>\n Under 15 minutes until the start of stage 5 now.<\/p>\n 2025-06-19T09:50:32.575Z<\/p>\n Nice words from Bahrain Victorious DS Micha\u0142 Go\u0142a\u015b on an emotional day for Gino M\u00e4der’s team. They’ll be racing hard with him in mind, as always.<\/p>\n \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udded #TourdeSuisse | ST 5\ud83d\udea9 La Punt\ud83c\udfc1 Santa Maria in Calanca\ud83d\udccf 183.8km\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f SD @golasmichal : \u201cIt\u2019s an emotional day for us. Every day we ride for Gino \u2014 but today, even more so.\u201d @tds @rideforGino_ #RideAsOne pic.twitter.com\/edPmfP40zAJune 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 2025-06-19T09:48:16.160Z<\/p>\n If you missed yesterday’s stage in the mountains, catch up with the action and Jo\u00e3o Almeida beginning his comeback on GC with our race report:<\/p>\n Tour de Suisse: Jo\u00e3o Almeida goes solo on the Spl\u00fcgenpass for stage 4 victory<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 2025-06-19T09:41:04.833Z<\/p>\n An emotional moment from the start of stage 5, as a new memorial to Gino M\u00e4der is unveiled on the Albulapass. La Punt was the finish location of the stage where he tragically passed away two years ago.<\/p>\n We still miss you Gino\ud83d\udda4 But now we have a place to come by and always remember you as an inspiring person\ud83d\udd4a\ufe0f.#rideforgino pic.twitter.com\/0RSvyKmJ7hJune 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n 2025-06-19T09:33:50.353Z<\/p>\n Just over 30 minutes until the start of stage 5 in La Punt, near Switzerland’s border with Italy.<\/p>\n 2025-06-19T09:22:29.611Z<\/p>\n Hello and welcome back to Cyclingnews’ live coverage of the 2025 Tour de Suisse!<\/p>\n
\nClimbs on stage 5<\/p>\n
\u2013 Julierpass (7.3km at 6.5%)
\u2013 Passo del San Bernardino (7.5km at 5.9%)
\u2013 Castaneda (4.4km at 9.8%)
\u2013 Castaneda (4.4km at 9.8%)<\/p>\n![\"Tour](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/MmabQizUDjhZ3EDgeXhUfd.png\")
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