Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 5

Breaking down what we learned on a crucial early time trial at the 2025 Tour de France

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After ripping over the flat roads around Caen in northwest France, Remco Evenepoel added to his already-impressive time trial palmares by winning the 33-kilometer individual TT ahead of Tadej Pogačar and Edoardo Affini. While Evenepoel won the day, Pogačar’s runner-up ride was the story of the day after he put over a minute into his key GC rival Jonas Vingegaard, and pulled the balance of power at this race into clear focus after signaling to other challengers that he is far and away the strongest rider at this race.

Stage Top Five:
1) Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) +0
2) Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates XRG) +16
3) Edoardo Affini (Team Visma-Lease a Bike) +33
4) Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +35
5) Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +49

Current GC Top Five:
1) Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates XRG) +0
2) Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) +42
3) Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +59
4) Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) +1’13
5) Matteo Jorgenson (Visma–Lease a Bike) +1’22

Select GC Gaps Produced on Stage 5:
Evenepoel +0
Pogacar -16
Vauquelin -49
Lipowitz -58
Almeida -1’14
Jorgenson -1’19
Roglic -1’19
Vingegaard -1’21
Skjelmose -1’46
Onley -2’02
Mas -2’57

Stage 5 Race Notebook

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Remco Evenepoel (64t chainring w/165mm cranks)
31km: The moment Evenepoel, the double Olympic-World TT Champion, rolls out of the gate, his extremely aero position is on full display as he flies over the mostly flat course at over 50km/hr (despite putting out less raw power than his rivals).

20.1km: Evenepoel is second at the first time check, two seconds down on Luke Plapp, but is slowly picking up speed while Plapp is losing time at each subsequent check.