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Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 5

Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 5

Breaking down how the 2023 Tour's opening mountain stage drastically altered the race's GC landscape

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Jul 06, 2023
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Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 5
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Jai Hindley turned the 2023 Tour de France on its head by sneaking into the massive early breakaway, before dropping the rest of the escapees and holding off a furiously chasing Jonas Vingegaard-led group to win the opening Pyrenees mountain stage and taking the race’s overall lead.

As Tadej Pogačar’s UAE team took up the chase behind Hindley’s early mo…

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