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00:00We were expecting a demonstration from Visma Lisebaeck yesterday on the first summit finish
00:06of this Paris-Nice, but in the end, João Almeida stole the show as UAE Team Emirates
00:12XRG conquered La Luge des Garde for the second time in three editions.
00:16The yellow jersey remains with the Dutch outfit though, Vingegaard taking it from his team
00:20mate Jorgensen, and the dame will have an opportunity to bounce back in today's punchy
00:25fifth stage.
00:27I mean, of course, I would have liked to win the stage already yesterday.
00:31It was very close, but yeah, of course, today there is another chance, but we'll see,
00:36also depending on how the race unfolds.
00:39Today is another hard finish and we'll do everything we can to keep the yellow jersey.
00:44Today has a real classics feel to it, with lots of climbs in the final, it'll suit the
00:48punchy sprinters and the GC men.
00:51It's a long stage, it's going to be cold for everyone.
00:55It's not a race just for the last climb, probably for the last 50k, we have plenty
00:59of climbs, left, right, up and down, I expect big action.
01:05It could also be one for the breakaway ahead of a busy weekend, we can certainly expect
01:10a lively start.
01:11I can't see really a team really committed to control today.
01:16I mean, I think it's easier for other teams to just send a breakaway today.
01:26Stage 5 is a shade over 200km between Saint-Just-en-Chevalier and Le Côte-Saint-André.
01:32There are seven climbs in total, five of them inside the last 50k, and there are some pretty
01:37gnarly gradients, especially on the final hike to the finish line, 1.7km at 11.1%, with
01:44maximum pinches of 18%.
01:47May the best man win.
01:53After a ferocious battle for the breakaway, sadly before the cameras started rolling,
01:57only two men managed to get away.
01:5920-year-old Thibaut Gruel of Groupama FDJ, the youngest man in the race, and Ben Swift
02:05of Ineos already on the attack yesterday.
02:08The average speed was over 48km an hour for the first two hours, and the peloton were
02:13keeping the pressure on the two leaders.
02:17The gap was down to a minute and a half as they approached the first of the steep kickers
02:21in the final, with Vingegaard hanging back a bit in the bunch.
02:25The race leader had crashed early in the stage, apparently without any major consequences.
02:33Onto the Côte du Chateau-June, and after 150km of effort, the first riders began to
02:39drop.
02:40The peloton closing to within around a minute of the two leaders.
02:45Gruel leading the way over the summit ahead of Swift, with the roads set to get narrower
02:50and the race set to get harder.
02:58Well, he's at it again.
02:59Tobias Foss of the Ineos Grenadiers is trying to go long and he's trying to go early.
03:04This was exactly what he tried yesterday.
03:07Foss attacking from the peloton for the second day of running, and the Norwegian soon linked
03:11up with his teammate Swift up at the front.
03:18Further back, Michael Matthews tried to counter with Ivan Romeo and Oskar Riesebeck, but they
03:23were soon reeled back in by the peloton, being paced by Decathlon 82R on behalf of Felix
03:29Galle and Aurelien Paripanche.
03:36On the day's fifth climb, the Côte de Chavagne, Foss pushed on alone, dropping Swift and Gruel.
03:42The Ineos man increasing his lead to around a minute as they entered the last 30km, still
03:48two climbs to go.
03:55The big Norwegian resisting superbly, and he was still leading solo as they hurtled
04:00towards the final wall of a climb.
04:03The gap had come right down though, with the pace in the peloton causing a couple of splits.
04:08Foss was finally caught with 4km to go and the road soon began to rise.
04:131.7km to go until we get to the finish on the Côte de Notre-Dame de Sierre.
04:22Wismar-Liesebeck looking to set things up for Matteo Jorgensen as the gradients really
04:27began to sting the legs.
04:29UAE Team Emirates XRG also setting a high tempo in what was quickly turning into an
04:34elimination race, and one of the men being eliminated was Jonas Vingegaard in yellow.
04:41That's a huge blow for Wismar-Liesebeck.
04:43That's a huge blow for Jonas Vingegaard.
04:46Or Vingegaard gone as the peloton was whittled down to a select group of potential stage
04:50winners led by Jorgensen.
04:54Sheffield, Tejada, Champuzat and Martinez all on his tail.
04:59But could they get the better of the American in the final few metres?
05:03Here comes Lennie Martinez who's having to come the long way round.
05:07Can he find his way through?
05:08Martinez, it's Champuzat.
05:10Here goes Martinez, Lennie Martinez in his new colours of Bahrain Victorious.
05:15He kicks, he punches, he starts to open up a gap.
05:18Jorgensen can't respond.
05:20Lennie Martinez wins on home soil and he wins his first ever Paris-Nice stage.
05:26There was bitter disappointment for Bahrain Victorious yesterday as Santiago
05:30Buatrago crashed out.
05:32But today they saw off all comers with Lennie Martinez, the 21-year-old Frenchman
05:37landing his 7th career win, the very first at World Tour level.
05:43Today was just incredible.
05:45The whole team did a fantastic job.
05:47On the last climb, I knew I wanted to go at 150 metres.
05:51I saw there were three of us and I was like, I can't mess this up now.
05:54So I went all in.
05:56I attacked, then I looked behind me and saw the gap and I couldn't believe it.
06:00Raising my arms on the line was a great moment.
06:02Martinez winning by three seconds from Jean Poussin,
06:05who snuck ahead of Jorgensen on the line.
06:07Lipovic and Almeida, 5th and 6th.
06:09Vingegaard was 26 seconds back in 16th.
06:14That means that Jorgensen is back in the yellow jersey,
06:17leading his team-mate by 22 seconds.
06:19Lipovic is up to third ahead of the last two stage winners, Almeida and Martinez.
06:26Tim Moliere, who was in the yellow jersey,
06:29Tim Moliere still has a comfortable lead in green
06:32and the Belgians should be back in action in tomorrow's sixth stage.
06:37Almeida holds on to the polka dot jersey,
06:39although Gachignan has closed to within two points.
06:42Martinez is third.
06:45And yet another change in white.
06:47Lipovic is once again the best young rider after Schjelmozer, lost 28 seconds.
06:54After two days of GC action,
06:57there's another sprint stage on the menu tomorrow
06:59in what will be the longest outing of this 83rd edition.
07:02Join us for that on Friday and thanks for watching.