Tour de France 2025 LIVE: Stage 5 route and updates as yellow jersey contenders chase time trial glory – UK Times

The big winners, obviously, were Pogacar and Vingegaard, the Dane a little less so as he struggled to keep pace with his rival’s attack on the Rampe Saint-Hilaire – but did manage to make it back on, distancing all the other contenders in the process.

Remco Evenepoel lost another three seconds in the dash for the line but won’t be too concerned as that’s time he can make up in today’s specialist-friendly time trial.

Roglic fell off the back by 20 seconds in the final kilometres and now sits 1’27” down, with Felix Gall, Ben O’Connor, and Florian Lipowitz all losing time too.

But Oscar Onley has had another fine outing today, fourth on the stage and moving up to seventh overall. The young Scot is racing a ‘relaxed’ GC, according to his team, but is working nicely so far.

This year’s Tour de France is a real ‘Tour of France’, taking place entirely within French borders for the first time since 2020.

There are pitfalls throughout the route for any yellow jersey hopefuls to avoid, with crosswinds threatening to wreak havoc in a tricky, punchy opening week in the north of France, before the real mountains begin almost halfway through the race.

We’ve taken a look at five crucial stages the general classification contenders will have to escape unscathed in order to mount a real challenge – and which could spell the end of a tilt at the title.

It’s hard not to back Remco Evenepoel for this one. The Soudal Quick-Step leader will have bookmarked this stage from the minute the route was published as a golden opportunity to take the stage win, and amass such a margin of victory as to take the yellow jersey, too.

The world and Olympic time-trial champion is the fastest man in the world against the clock, and he didn’t look troubled yesterday by a minor crash on stage three, so should be in prime position to take the win today. Yellow might be a steeper ask as he has 58 seconds to make up on Mathieu van der Poel and Tadej Pogacar, but the Belgian is an absolute demon on a flat course like this one. His task has also been made easier by Filippo Ganna’s untimely exit from the race after a crash on stage one.

1) Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), in 16:46:00

2) Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), at same time

3) Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +8”

4) Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +19”

5) Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), +26”

6) Enric Mas (Movistar), +48”

7) Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL) , +55”

8) Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), at same time

9) Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +58”

10) Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), +1’02”

Mathieu van der Poel remains the overall leader of the Tour de France – but only by a whisker as defending champion Tadej Pogacar won stage four, his 100th career victory, to move level with the Dutchman on time.

The world champion bested van der Poel in an uphill sprint to the line in Rouen, with two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard coming third as the general classification favourites vied for the stage win.

The trio remain on the provisional overall podium, with last year’s third-placed finisher Remco Evenepoel losing another handful of seconds as a gap opened up at the finish, to now sit ninth, 58 seconds back. Primoz Roglic – the final member of the so-called ‘Big Four’ – was also distanced in the closing stages and sits 13th, 1’27” back.

No neutralised rollout today as it’s a time-trial. The first rider will roll down the ramp at 1.10pm local time, 12.10pm BST, with the final arrival into Caen scheduled for 5.42pm local time (4.42pm BST).

Yevgeniy Fedorov, the 181st of 181 remaining riders, will be the first to set off, with Mathieu van der Poel starting his race against the clock last.

The 2025 Tour de France will be broadcast live on ITV4 in the UK, in what is the last year of free-to-air coverage of the race before it is exclusively shown on TNT Sports and Discovery+.

Viewers can also stream the race online via ITVX app and website, and subscribers can watch the action on the TNT Sports and Discovery+ apps.

Each stage will packaged into hourly highlights shows on ITV4, typically starting at around 7pm BST. The highlights can be streamed on ITVX with the website and app.

1) Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), in 3:50:29

2) Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

3) Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike)

4) Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL)

5) Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ)

6) Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), all at same time

7) Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +3”

8) Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +3”

9) Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), +7”

10) Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels), +10”

In the hometown of the Tour’s first five-time winner Jacques Anquetil, Pogacar took a stride to what he hopes will be his fourth title with a show of strength on another classics-style stage, beating Van der Poel and his great rival Jonas Vingegaard in an uphill sprint.

It was Pogacar’s 18th career Tour stage win and one that put him on the same time as Van der Poel – who retains yellow on countback – with Vingegaard eight seconds back going into Wednesday’s time trial. Pogacar, 26, became the fourth youngest rider to reach 100 professional wins.