Tour de France stage 5 LIVE result: Tadej Pogacar takes time from rivals as Simon Clarke wins stage

Oh no! The yellow jersey of Wout van Aert tumbles to the ground as he tries to navigate a central reservation rounding a right bend. He and teammate Steven Kruijswijk hit the road, but they are quickly back up on their bikes and pushed on their way. Van Aert appears to have sustained some kind of injury on his right side, holding his arm, but it doesn’t seem to be a major problem.

100km to go: The breakaway is around 3min 30sec ahead of the peloton. A reminder of their number:

Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies), Magnus Cort and Neilson Powless (EF Education-Easypost), Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux), Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) and Alexis Gougeard (B&B Hotels-KTM)

Here’s how the sprinters’ points classification is looking after that intermediate sprint earlier:

1. Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), 178

2. Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), 118

3. Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies), 86

4. Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), 73

5. Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost), 70

Here’s what’s to come in about 20km:

The breakaway were first through the intermediate sprint to collect most of the green jersey points on offer, but there’s still a little tussle for the remaining scraps at the front of the peloton. Christophe Laporte guides the yellow jersey of Wout van Aert towards the sprint line but Fabio Jakobsen darts around them both to get their first, reducing his points gap to Van Aert to 59.

Jakobsen remains in green while Van Aert wears yellow, but as soon as the yellow jersey passes on – which we might expect to do once we hit the Alps – then Van Aert will likely resume green given his healthy points advantage so far.

120km to go: The peloton is going at a fair lick so far but remains nearly three minutes behind the breakaway, and the gap is growing.

The peloton has left Lille – host of the Tour de France for the 18th time today – and is out in the French countryside. There is a six-man breakaway which seems to be sticking at the front:

Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies), Magnus Cort and Neilson Powless (EF Education-Easypost), Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux), Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) and Alexis Gougeard (B&B Hotels-KTM).

They lead the way from the peloton by around 2min 15sec.

Before the stage, there was a tribute to the British cycling journalist Richard Moore, well known for hosting the Cycling Podcast which became essential listening during the Tour, who died a few weeks ago. A posthumous trophy was presented to his widow Virgine ahead of the stage 5 start in Lille this morning.

Magnus Cort up at the front yet again, having swept up the King of the Mountains points on the minor climbs in his homeland Denmark in order to take hold of the polka dot jersey.

140km to go: Chris Froome’s teammate Simon Clarke (Israel-PremierTech) is the third rider in that chasing trio. What’s interesting here is that EF Education-Easypost have two riders involved in these two riders – Neilson Powless is chasing the group containing Magnus Cort and there are around 30 seconds between them. If Powless can join up with Cort and they can build a sustainable breakaway, then he could have a useful courier through the cobbles later in the day.