But just hours later, the team were left aghast after their leader Jonas Vingegaard shipped more than a minute to Pogačar. That wasn't in the script. Vingegaard had started the r

The defending Tour champion sped back into the yellow jersey in the stage 5 time trial, the 91st of his career, limiting his losses to stage winner, world and Olympic time trial champion Remco Evenepoel. Unexpectedly, he made huge gains on his great rival, Jonas Vingegaard, gaining 65 seconds.

Follow live text updates of Stage five of Tour de France from Caen. After four eventful days, we have hit the first individual time trial in this year's Tour de France. The race of truth is the first big opportunity for the general classification riders to lay down a marker so this should be intriguiing viewing.

Tadej Pogacar took the 100th victory of his stellar career on Tuesday, beating Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard to win stage four of the Tour de France.

Pogacar and Van der Poel have exactly the same overall time of 16 hours, 46 minutes after four stages, and count one stage win each, but Van der Poel kept the yellow jersey because of better finishing positions in the other two stages.