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Tour de Suisse Men Standings 2024

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from  Rüschlikon  to  San Gottardo

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Commentary David Loosli

The first mountain finish is on the program and with it the battle for the General Classification really gets underway. Starting with the Albis Pass the stage then heads over flat terrain. From Silenen onwards however it is practically all uphill. First through the mystical Schöllenen Gorge and then via Andermatt to the Gotthard Pass. Will a breakaway be able to escape or will the climbers make the most of this opportunity?

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Its position on Lake Zurich makes Rüschlikon an ideal recreational area.

The queen of the mountains standing like a cliff between the lowlands and the majestic Swiss Alps is always worth a visit.

Schöllenen Gorge

With the Devil’s Bridge, the Schöllenen Gorge is the historic landmark at the entrance to the Ursern Valley and the Gotthard region.

Gotthard Pass

Crossing the Gotthard Pass is an adventure, regardless of whether it is by the legendary yellow Gotthard stagecoach or by bike.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Campus Moos, Feldimoosstrasse, 8803 Rüschlikon

Public transportation

• By train: S8 & S24 to Rüschlikon station, 15 minutes on foot to Campus Moos
• The number of parking spaces is limited. More detailed information will follow soon.
• Bike skills course: 10:30 – 13:00
• Riders Sign-In: 11:20 – 12:20
• Start of advertising convoy: 11:30
• Start of the race: 12:30

Passo del San Gottardo, 6780 Airolo

By train to Airolo, from there a shuttle bus runs from the early afternoon to the finish area

Parking available in Airolo, from there take the shuttle bus to the finish area

• Entertainment: from 14:30
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• Award ceremony: afterwards

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Tour de Suisse 2024: GC Favourites

The 1st stage is a flat ITT of 4.8 kilometres, in which the first time gaps – albeit small – are opened up. Following two hilly stages, the GC action intensifies in the race to the Gotthard Pass. It’s the first proper uphill finish on an ascent that stretches for 30 kilometres. The final 10.1 kilometres climb at 6.3%.

The Gotthard stage opens a series of mountain-top finishes. The 5th stage race packs in over 3,200 metres of climbing before the finish climb throws in 11.2 kilometres at 8%. The 6th stage originally would have included the massive Nufenen Pass, but it has been taken out for security reasons. Now it comes down to a short run-up on the valley floor before a 6.9 kilometres uphill dash at 9.3% to the mountain village of Blatten.

Arguably the toughest stage of the week is served up on the penultimate day. It’s an explosive test of 118.1 kilometres with an elevation gain of 3,021 metres. The final 8.6 kilometres rise at 8% to the line.

That’s it in terms of GC stages, but there is still an important test on the menu: the final stage is an ITT that runs predominantly uphill. Following a flat run-up, the last 10.2 kilometres of the Tour de Suisse climb at 8% to the line in Villars-sur-Ollon.

Skjelmose, Carapaz, Bernal, and Costa are the former winners at the start. The Dane is the title holder, the Olympic champion took the win in 2021, and the Colombian came out on top in 2019. The Portuguese rider is the record holder of the quartet, having won the Tour de Suisse in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

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Joao Almeida: I can't wait for my first Tour de France - it's the pinnacle of cycling

Uae team emirates rider on taking on the challenge of a giro-tour double.

UAE Team Emirates rider Joao Almeida says his main focus now in the Tour de France but the World Championships and Olympics are also big goals this year. SprintCyclingAgency

Looking back at last season, I think I got off to a great start. Competing with the world’s best at Grand Tour level is what we train so intensely for and seeing that hard work pay off with a second-place finish at Tirreno-Adriatico was extremely satisfying. Moments like that fuel my passion and drive. The result filled me with determination and a real hunger to keep pushing harder.

Tirreno-Adriatico set me up really well for the Giro d’Italia where I felt incredible, especially on Stage 16 . I had great sensations and knew I had to give it everything. When I attacked, I decided to push hard and went full gas to the line. It was pure adrenalin.

Crossing the line and beating a legend like Geraint Thomas to take my first Grand Tour stage win was one of the sweetest moments of my career so far. A Grand Tour stage win is a big deal in cycling, and to get that first one under my belt felt absolutely amazing.

Finishing on the podium, as well as winning the Youth Classification was further confirmation of all the hard work put in by myself and the team over those three weeks.

The feeling crossing the finish line – given the high level of competition we went up against – was amazing. The Giro is, and always will be, a special race for me. Although I missed it this year, I’m more excited than ever to be working towards the Tour de France.

To make my debut in the biggest race in the world is massive. We’re currently preparing at altitude, then I’ll race in the Tour de Suisse which will be my main preparation. The team is super strong, and of course we are confident. Tadej [Pogacar] is in great form, and the team is coming off a great Giro d’Italia performance.

We know the Giro-Tour double is a huge challenge, and there will be big rivals at the Tour, but we are ready for it.

We understand that anything can happen over twenty-one stages, so we need to stay fully focused and give our best every single day. The belief in Tadej and the strength of our team gives us the drive to aim high and push for this monumental achievement.

As a kid growing up watching cycling, the Tour de France is the pinnacle – it’s the biggest race and it rightly gets the most attention. To say I’m excited is an understatement. This will be my first Tour and I can’t wait to experience it first-hand.

We’ve done reckons of some of the mountain stages and there are definitely some challenging days ahead. Right from the start in Italy, on Stage 1, we’ll be right into the General Classification battle. Teamwork will be absolutely crucial, especially with the level of competition expected this year.

From a personal standpoint, I see my role being one of the last guys in the mountains, when it’s really hard, supporting Tadej and ensuring we stay in contention.

UAE Team Emirates rider Tadej Pogacar, centre, celebrates his overall victory in the Giro d'Italia with second-placed Daniel Martinez, left, and third-placed Geraint Thomas on the podium after the final stage in Rome on Sunday, May 26, 2024. AP

It’s about working together, staying focused, and executing our strategy perfectly. I’m ready to give my all for the team.

Of course, the Tour is my main focus for now, but the World Championships and Olympics are on the horizon and are both big goals for me.

They’re major events that every cyclist loves to compete in. The chance to represent my country at the Olympics is a huge honour. Each race presents its own challenges and opportunities, so I’m eager to continue to compete at the highest level all season long.

The support of our fans all around the world means everything to us. We are immensely proud to represent the UAE on the world stage. The success of our team is largely down to the amazing support we receive from our fans and sponsors back in the UAE. We can’t wait to see you all very soon and will keep pushing to make you proud!

Tour de France 2024 Rider Power Rankings

Less than a month out from the start of the men’s Tour de France, we ranked the top yellow jersey threats in the peloton.

This is the latest edition of Bicycling’ s Power Rankings for the 2024 Men’s Tour de France, where we rank the top contenders leading up to July’s race. This continuously updated list will give you an in-depth look at the riders that have the best shot to stand atop the podium at the end of the Tour—and how they’re performing in the races leading up to July.

These rankings will be constantly refreshed, so you can see who’s up and who’s down on the road to the 2024 Tour de France.

The 2024 Tour de France was expected to bring together the sport’s four best grand tour riders: Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), winner of the last two Tours de France; Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), winner of the 2020 and 2021 Tours de France and the recent Giro d’Italia; Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), winner of the 2022 Vuelta a España; and Slovenia’s Primož Roglič (BORA-hansgrohe), a 3-time winner of the Vuelta and the champion at last year’s Giro d’Italia.

Each rider was taking a different route to the Tour de France, with each choosing to mix race days with extended periods of time spent at training camps. And while some of their paths crossed at select races throughout the first few months of the season, they weren’t expected to all race together until the Tour. For fans, it was a dream scenario.

But the dream became a nightmare in early-April after a scary, high-speed crash during Stage 4 of Spain’s Tour of the Basque Country took down several riders, including Vingegaard, Roglič, and Evenepoel. Two of them–Vingegaard and Evenepoel–suffered serious injuries, and all of them had their Tour preparations interrupted.

That was almost eight weeks ago, and they’re all back on their bikes and training again. But with the Tour de France beginning in Florence, Italy just four weeks from Saturday, one big question still remains: Will Vingegaard–who suffered the worst injuries of the three–be on the starting line, and if he is will he have the form he needs to defend his title? This storyline is the one we’ll be watching the most in the month leading up to the start of the Tour, but it’s not the only one.

We’re also excited to see if Pogačar can become the first rider since 1998 to win the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France in the same season (spoiler alert: we think he can). And last but definitely not least, we’re eager to learn which other contenders–if any–will be ready to challenge him.

So with four weeks left before the Tour’s “Grand Depart,” here’s our latest–and perhaps most optimistic–Tour de France contender Power Ranking.

Tadej Pogačar

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Previous Ranking : 1

Race Days : 31

Race Wins : 14

Best Result : 1st-place, General Classification - Giro d’Italia

Next Race: Tour de France, June 29-July 21

With about four weeks until the start of the Tour de France, there are still no questions about who the Tour’s top contender is. Pogačar just wrapped-up a three-week training camp in Italy. You may have heard it–it’s called the Giro d’Italia.

We’re kidding, right? Well, not really. Pog absolutely dominated the Italian grand tour, winning the maglia rosa by almost ten minutes over the next-closest rider on the Giro’s General Classification. Along the way he won six stages–finished second or third on three more–and won the Giro’s King of the Mountains prize. But more importantly, he finished the race healthy and reasonably fresh for a rider who just won a three-week grand tour. 

He only crashed once–near the end of Stage 2 when he flatted and his front wheel slipped out from him. It was a minor fall, and Pogačar quickly quickly got back on his bike and promptly won the stage. Otherwise, he escaped the race injury-free.

He also stayed healthy, which–considering the terrible weather that the race encountered at the beginning of the third week–was another blessing for the Slovenian. Staying safe and healthy during a three-week is often a greater challenge than overcoming the competition, and Pog came through that battle unscathed. 

And speaking of the competition, between a relatively gentle course and a rather weak (sorry, guys) start list, Pogačar was never really pushed to defend his lead. With the exception of the Giro’s two individual time trials, he basically won the race with a series of quick, uphill accelerations that no one else could follow. Then he simply rode a steady tempo to the finish line, extending his advantage as he pedaled. 

Pogačar’s near-perfect Giro–plus the fact that he raced minimally in the months before it–means that he probably ended the Giro stronger than he was when he started it. That’s bad news for the men he’ll be racing against at the Tour de France. 

With the Giro behind him, Pogačar will rest for a week and then head to a ski station in the French Alps for nineteen days of altitude training. He won’t race before the Tour de France, but with a grand tour in his legs, he doesn’t need to. 

At this rate, we’ll be eating some humble pie in late-July. At the beginning of the season, we didn’t have much faith in his chances of winning the Giro and the Tour in the same season. But given the way things are shaping up, now we’ll be more surprised if he doesn’t. 

Primož Roglič

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Previous Ranking : 2

Race Days : 11

Race Wins : 1

Best Result : 1st-place, Stage 1 - Tour of the Basque Country

Next Race : Critérium du Dauphiné, June 2-10

Roglič also went down in the crash that took out Vingegaard and Evenepoel, and like the other two, he abandoned the race immediately. But after a series of medical examinations, BORA-hansgrohe reported that the 34-year-old suffered no major injuries. Compared to the others, the Slovenian dodged bullet.

He was initially expected to take part in Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège last week, but the team changed plans to give him extra time to heal. That was a good call, as the weather in the Belgian Ardennes was atrocious that week, and the risk of getting sick or worse–another crash–just wasn’t worth it. In fact, he probably made more gains by training than he would have by racing. 

The Slovenian spent the past five weeks training–which was always the plan–and now he’s heading to the Critérium du Dauphiné–which starts this Sunday–for his last big test before the Tour de France.

The Dauphiné is essentially an 8-day mini-Tour de France with several stages that mimic key stages from the upcoming Tour. It’s also early enough in the month that riders have time for one more small block of training before the start of the Tour. That makes it a popular dress rehearsal for Tour contenders, and Roglič will be going head-to-head with several of his rivals. And it’s a race he knows well: he won it in 2022. 

That’s why anything worse than a top-5 finish would be bad news for the Slovenian. He doesn’t need to win it; after all, the Dauphiné ends four weeks before the start of the Tour, and he needs to be at his best in July not June. 

But a poor performance against many of the men he’ll be racing against at the Tour will raise some eyebrows, putting even more pressure on a 34-year-old rider who might be staring down his last reasonable chance to win the Tour de France. 

Remco Evenepoel

Previous Ranking : 3

Race Days : 17

Race Wins : 4

Best Result : 2nd place, General Classification - Paris-Nice

Another victim of the crash at the Tour of the Basque Country, Evenepoel broke his right clavicle and scapula in Spain and had surgery a few days later in Belgium to address the broken collarbone. The injury meant the Belgian missed a chance to become only the fourth rider to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège three years in a row. 

But his injuries have healed and he’s been on his bike for several weeks. He even attended a recent training camp with his team in Sierra Nevada. So he’s back on schedule in terms of his training for this summer’s Tour de France. 

This sets Evenepoel up for an important showdown with Roglič–and others–at the Critérium du Dauphiné–the Belgian’s last race before the Tour de France–and the pressure he’ll face there will be intense. 

The winner of the 2022 Vuelta a España, Evenepoel is Belgium’s best chance to win a Tour in several decades (a Belgian hasn’t won the Tour since 1976), so he already carries the weight of a nation of passionate cycling fans on his shoulders.

So there’s really no way for the 24-year-old to come out of the Dauphiné without facing even more pressure: if races well–let’s say, finishes on the podium–everyone will start talking about him as if he’s bound to win the Tour. But a bad Dauphiné will fire up the naysayers, putting the wrong kind of pressure on a rider who sometimes struggles to handle adversity. It’s an unenviable position, but that’s life as when you’re Belgium’s first grand tour winner since 1978. 

Egan Bernal and Carlos Rodriguez

Previous Rankings : 4 (Bernal) and 5 (Rodríguez)

Race Days : 28 (Bernal) and 24 (Rodríguez)

Race Wins : 0 (Bernal) and 2 (Rodríguez)

Best Result : 3rd place, General Classficiation - Volta Ciclista a Catalunya (Bernal) and 1st-place, General Classification - Tour de Romandie (Rodríguez)

Next Race : Tour de France, June 29-July 21 (Bernal) and Critérium du Dauphiné, June 2-10 (Rodríguez) 

We’re hedging our bets with this one because–at the moment–we can’t find a reason to put one ahead of the other. But that could change after the Critérium du Dauphiné, which Rodríguez will be starting this weekend.

The Spaniard flew a bit under the radar at last year’s Dauphiné, but in hindsight he shouldn’t have: he finished ninth overall against some tough competition and won the white jersey as the race’s Best Young Rider. The then-22-year-old went on to finish fifth overall and win a stage at the Tour de France. Perhaps we should have seen it coming.

But Rodríguez won’t sneak up on anyone this year, and his performance will indicate if he’s ready to become a true Tour de France podium contender. If he is, he’ll likely bump Bernal–who last raced in late-April and is currently training in Colombia–down a notch in the team’s leadership hierarchy. And that might not be a bad thing: we like the chances of “Bernal the Dark Horse” better than those of “Bernal the Pre-Tour Podium Contender.” 

Jonas Vingegaard

Previous Ranking : Under Consideration

Race Days : 14

Race Wins : 7

Best Result : 1st-place, General Classification - Tirreno-Adriatico

Next Race : TBD

Given some recent news, we’re optimistically moving the Tour’s two-time defending champion back into our top-5—well, 6 if you consider the INEOS tandem above. 

One of the worst victims of the crash at the Tour of the Basque Country, Vingegaard lay motionless along the side of the road for a few minutes before finally being placed in an ambulance and taken to a local hospital, where tests revealed a broken collarbone and a few cracked ribs. Later the team shared that Vingegaard also suffered a pulmonary contusion and a collapsed lung. He stayed in the hospital for 12 days. 

At first, Visma-Lease a Bike wouldn’t discuss the Dane’s chances of racing the Tour de France. But now they are–albeit in uncertain terms–because Vingegaard is back on his bike and training. He was first spotted on a bike path in Denmark, and this week, he arrived in Tignes, France for altitude training camp.

At the Giro d’Italia last week, his team manager Richard Plugge confirmed that Vingegaard has indeed resumed training but would only head to the Tour if he is 100 percent ready to defend his title. And he didn’t sound as if the possibility of the Dane being ready in time was as far-fetched as it seemed a month ago.  

He won’t ride the Dauphiné, but his teammates racing it will meet him in Tignes afterwards. Things are clearly going better than they were in April for Vingegaard, and we think there’s about a 50% chance that he starts the Tour de France. 

Vingegaard started the season in dominating fashion. In fact, he was so strong that some wondered how he could possibly maintain such a high level of fitness all the way through the Tour. Assuming he’s able to get anywhere close to the form he had before the crash–and he starts the Tour–he’s good enough to break back into our Power Ranking. It’s an optimistic take, but we’re going with it–for now.

Under Consideration

If Vingegaard is ultimately unable to start the Tour de France, American Sepp Kuss (Visma Lease a Bike) –the winner of last year’s Vuelta a España–will likely lead the team instead. Kuss hasn’t raced since the Tour of the Basque Country, but he’s starting the Critérium du Dauphiné this Sunday. With three summit finishes to close out the race, it’s the perfect chance for Kuss to assert himself as a Tour de France contender.

Spain’s Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) is also riding the Dauphiné and likely racing to win it. The 21-year-old finished third at the 2022 Vuelta a España and is set to start his first Tour de France this summer. He’ll be riding in support of Pogačar, but the Spaniard could be a contender himself–both as a domestique (UAE put two riders on the podium last year) and as a back-up plan (should something happen to Pog).

Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) has been training since his last race, April’s Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The 31-year-old is racing the Tour de Suisse–which takes place one week after the Dauphiné–as his final race before the Tour. And he’ll be racing with a chip on his shoulder: the reigning Olympic champion was not selected to represent his country at the games this summer. Jhonatan Narváez (INEOS Grenadiers)–who won Stage 1 at the Giro d’Italia–was chosen instead.

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• Date: 19 June 2022
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Tom Pidcock will set his own targets for Tour de France

Tom Pidcock will not let anyone else tell him what a successful Tour de France will look like this summer.

Pidcock’s stage win on the Alpe d’Huez defined his Tour debut in 2022, but last summer he cited the lack of a clear goal after fading in the second half of the gruelling 21-stage race, finishing 13th overall.

The Olympic mountain bike champion aims to one day win the Tour, but that ambition is some way off for a rider who admits right now he is built for one-day racing, not targeting the general classification in major stage races.

So what would a good Tour look like?

“I am going to decide what I want my Tour to be this year,” Pidcock told the PA news agency. “Nobody else. Otherwise you don’t get anything from me. I need to be able to believe in my mission at the Tour.

“I completely understand where I want to be and what I need to do to achieve it. It’s not always simple but the people in my corner, they know how I work.”

After a break from racing since April, Pidcock returned to win the XCO Mountain Bike World Cup race in Nove Mesto for the fourth straight year a little over a week ago. He will be back on the road at the Tour de Suisse starting this Sunday.

That is preparation for the Tour, where he is due to join former winners Geraint Thomas and Egan Bernal, plus Carlos Rodriguez, fifth last year, in a powerful Ineos Grenadiers squad facing up to defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and the irrepressible Tadej Pogacar.

Thomas just rode to third place at the Giro d’Italia, turning 38 midway through the race. Luke Rowe, another rider who has been with the team for more than a decade, will retire at the end of the season.

“I think the team is going through a big transition period,” Pidcock said. “And you do notice that…It’s strange that some of these guys are soon not going to be here anymore. That is weird…

“It’s nice to have their experience. But I’ve realised I need to gain that experience in their outlook on things and not just leave it to other people.”

It means Pidcock will need to take on more of a leadership role, but he will do it his own way.

“I’m not used to taking the lead,” he said. “I don’t like to kind of lead from a forward position. I kind of like to lead from the back, if you like, to be a bit more quiet, just getting on with my own thing.

“I’m not the sort of person to hype everyone up and give the big talk. They can either believe in me or not.”

Pidcock is a youngster by cycling’s long-standing definition – still eligible for the young rider’s classification at the Tour.

But this is a world in which Pogacar has just won his third Grand Tour by the age of 25, while Remco Evenepoel , 24, has the 2022 Vuelta a Espana and a world title to his name.

“It’s a pain in the arse,” Pidcock said with a laugh. “Everyone’s so good now.”

Pidcock’s palmares includes the Amstel Gold Race and Strade Bianche, but given the incredible record he boasted at junior level and the achievements of some of his contemporaries, there has been criticism he has not won more on the road.

“I think it’s fair enough,” he said of that criticism. “I haven’t had those big wins on the road.

“But if you look at what I have done, OK, everyone is really young now. By 24, I’ve won Strade, Amstel, a stage of the Tour. I’m an Olympic champion and world champion in cyclo-cross and on the mountain bike.

“At the end of my career, if I can win a Monument or the world championships on the road, or get a podium at the Tour, that’s a career no one else has ever had.”

:: Tom Pidcock is a Red Bull athlete. You can see more about his races and achievements at https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/athlete/tom-pidcock

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Tour de Suisse stage 5 - live coverage

Steve Williams defends overall lead on road to Novazzano

Tour de Suisse race hub Tour de Suisse: Daryl Impey wins stage 4 Jumbo-Visma pull out of Tour de Suisse due to COVID-19 outbreak Tour de Suisse: Peter Sagan surges to sprint victory on stage 3

- Major pre-stage news as Jumbo-Visma, Adam Yates (Ineos-Grenadiers) pull out because of a COVID-19 outbreak. A further 10 riders are DNS today, for various reasons, including Gino Mader (Bahrain Victorious) and Soren Kragh Andersen (DSM).

- Stage win for Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) and overall lead as race shredded on final climbs

- Remco Evenepoel (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) loses 2 minutes.

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Hello and welcome to the live coverage of stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse

Today's stage is a 190.1 kilometre hilly run from Ambri to Novazzano, and the riders are due to roll out on the depart fictif in about 10 minutes time at 1230 CET

However, the key race news so far today is to do with a team, Jumbo-Visma, that won't be at the start-line of stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse, as they have had to pull out en masse because of a COVID-19 outbreak. My colleague Stephen Farrand has all the latest details here.

The riders are heading through the neutralised section of stage 5 as there's breaking news of another high-profile abandon because of COVID-19: Britain's Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers).

The news broke through a Tweet from the team.

In line with team and UCI protocols, @AdamYates7 has withdrawn from #TourDeSuisse2022 this morning after experiencing mild symptoms and returning a positive lateral flow test. pic.twitter.com/QLn7Lr0PDf June 16, 2022

And the race is underway. Multiple more reported none-starters, details shortly.

127 starters today in stage 5. Race website has officially confirmed that the following riders are DNS today:  all of Jumbo-Visma, Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers), Gino Mader and Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain Victorious), Yevgeniv Fedorov (Astana-Qazaqstan),  Otto Vergaede (Trek-Segafredo) and Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Fenix). And race radio has just added  three more DSM riders out, Soren Kragh Andersen, Michael Gogl and Casper Pederson.

That's a huge number of abandons in one day, 16 in total. Only Jumbo-Visma and Adam Yates are known  for now to be out for COVID-19, but we'll bring you further updates as the information comes through.

Amid all the tumult of the mass non-start news, a bike race breaks out as well. Five riders ahead with 34 seconds on the bunch: Johan Jacobs (Movistar),  Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Claudio Imhof (Switzerland).

Just while the stage is beginning to get underway, here's a reminder of the stage 4 results and current overall standings. Although there are obviously some significant gaps in that now after the mass DNS today.

The gap between the five leaders and the bunch has expanded enormously to 3-55. Looks like we have the break of the day.

A reminder of the five breakaways: that's Johan Jacobs (Movistar),  Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Claudio Imhof (Switzerland).

More updates on the various abandons from earlier today: Gino Mader and Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain Victorious) quit because of gastro'. Otto Vergaerde (Trek-Segafredo) quit because of fatigue. And on stage 4, also worth remembering that Thymen Arensman (DSM) quit midway through because of heat exhaustion. 

And DSM have just confirmed that their three abandons, Soren Kragh Andersen, Michael Gogl and Casper Pederson, have all quit with COVID. So of the 16 DNS, four confirmed cases in total at the Tour de Suisse including Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers) and an unspecified number of cases in Jumbo-Visma (which could be team staff and/or riders). 

Here's the official Tweet from DSM regarding their 3 positive cases

Unfortunately @kraghsoren, @pedersencasp & @ceesbol1995 have returned positive results on routine lateral flow tests & will leave #TourdeSuisse2022. In consultation with the race organiser & UCI the team will continue as we monitor the situation & continue our protective efforts. pic.twitter.com/bQhejFDwm9 June 16, 2022

And the gap is now up to a whopping 7-37 for our breakaway. Lotto-Soudal are doing some chasing behind, but it seems pretty nominal for now.

So what's coming up for the 121 riders on today's stage? The first real test is at km 66, (roughly 20 kilometres on from now), the 2nd cat. Monte Ceneri, not excessively difficult, but the toughest climb of the day. A further 60 kilometres further on, though, we hit the first of three ascents of the 3rd category Pedrinate, close to the finish town of Novazzano. The race tackles the Pedrinate three times on a large finishing circuit at kms 125, 153 and 181.7. The last  time over the summit is a fraction under 9 kilometres from the finish.

Cycling history buffs will be pleased to note that there's also a hot spot sprint in the town of Mendrisio at km 139 and km 166 in the Via Stefano Franscini.  Mendrisio was the scene of the 2009 World Championships, and part of the circuit used will feature on today's finishing circuit as well. For the record, the elite men's road-race was won in a lone attack by Cadel Evans for Australia. If you want to delve down memory lane a bit, the report from Cyclingnews is here.

The gap has finally stabilized at around 7-30 for the five riders in the break. And they are, let's remember, Johan Jacobs (Movistar),  Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Claudio Imhof (Switzerland).

A quick note on the newly absent faces from the Tour de Suisse peloton. Two of them were top ten overall, Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) in 7th place at 10sec on Stephen Williams (Bahrain Victorious; Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers) in 10th place at st; Sam Oomen and Pascal Eenkhorn (Jumbo-Visma) were both just over a minute adrift, as was Gino Mader (Bahrain Victorious). Of those who've quit, the only top three finisher overall was Rohan Dennis (Jumbo-Visma), who claimed second overall in 2019, as well as  having three stages in his palmares, but who was more than half an hour down already this year when he had to abandon.

And we're now at the foot of the first classified climb of the day, the second category Monte Ceneri. The hardest climb of stage 5, it peaks out at km66 after a 5.2 kilometre ascent averaging 6 percent. (And yes, I did have to look all that  info. up).

At the foot of the Monte Ceneri, the break has a gap of 6-35 as EF Education-EasyPost join forces with the chasers behind.

And here is a video of the Tour de Suisse director Oliver Senn run by our colleagues at Cyclingpro.net talking about the Jumbo-Visma mass abandon

if you don't succeed at first...

In the interview, the race director says that Jumbo-Visma reported 4  COVID-19 cases amongst their riders that abandoned the Tour de Suisse prior to stage 5. Which means there were 8 reported cases in total amongst those 16 DNS for stage 5.

The Tour de Suisse stage 5 breakaways have reached the summit of the 2nd cat. Ceneri. Their advantage is 6:40, about a minute less than their maximum, and the first rider across the top was Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo).

And here is a picture of the day's break. Warm weather again as you see, but at least according to the official race ticker 25 degrees right now, so nothing too out of the ordinary.

And we're getting confirmation through of yet another DNS this morning, Joey Rosskopf (Human Powered Health) because of a positive test for COVID-19.

You can read our full report on the numerous withdrawals from the Tour de Suisse here  while the link to the Tweet from Human Powered Health about Rosskopf's abandon is here. 

Following the guidance of our medical team and in line with UCI protocol, having returned a positive antigen test this morning, @joeyrosskopf did not take to the start of stage 5 at the #TourdeSuisse2022.#HumanPoweredHealth pic.twitter.com/Ah7SzDeZcC June 16, 2022

And the gap on our five breakaways is now at 5-50.

Just a brief round up of the number of DNS riders we have news of so far in this stage of the Tour de Suisse. Rosskopf was not officially confirmed but it's been announced by his team.

Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers), Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana Qazaqstan), Gino Mader and Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain-Victorious); Otto Vergaerde (Trek-Segafredo); Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Fenix), Rohan Dennis, Robert Gesink, Pascal Eenkhorn, Sepp Kuss, Sam Oomen,  Timo Roosen and Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma); Soren Kragh Andersen, Casper Pedersen, and Cees Bol (DSM), Joey Rosskopf (Human Powered Health). That's 17 in total.

And the gap on our five leaders, Johan Jacobs (Movistar),  Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Claudio Imhof (Switzerland), is beginning to drop. Now down to 4:30.

Seems  the current temperature is higher than race organisation estimates, by the way. According to at least one team temperatures are over 30 degrees again, much higher than the 25 degrees on the live race ticker and more in keeping too with previous days' scorchers.

And on the TdS live ticker, the current temperature has now been switched upwards to 31 degrees. Anyone would think they'd be reading this live blog.

Claudio Imhoff (Swiss Cycling) and Johan Jacobs (Movistar) are both dropped from the lead group.

That leaves us with Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo), Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) out front

And now Turgis is getting dropped

Turgis gets back on. So we have three riders out in front, Sylvain Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) and Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo) with a gap of 4:05. Ineos Grenadiers drive the peloton, meanwhile, which is steadily losing units off the back. 

The race is now on the final, lengthy, finishing circuit of which it'll complete three laps.

The race is at the foot of the Pedrinate, the third cat. climb it'll tackle three times on the finishing circuit. It's a 2.4 kilometre ascent with a stiff-ish gradient of around 8.2 percent.

4:00  gap for the break, which is splitting up again as they scale the upper slopes of the Pedrinate for the first time. Kamp and Dillier lead.

It's worth noting that even though we're well over two thirds of the way through the stage, the riders still have more than half the day's ration of vertical climbing yet to come. 1,400 metres remaing of about 2,600 metres in total. 

Yellow jersey Stephen Williams is struggling on the Pedrinate.

Gap from the break to the bunch is now 3:40

In the break which has now shrunk from five to two, Dillier led Kamp over the summit of the 3rd category Pedrinate.

While former breakaway Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) sits up and waits for the bunch,  Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo) and Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) push on at the head of the race. But their advantage is ebbing away, and currently stands at 2:30.

The two race leaders cross the finish line at Novazzano for the first time. They've got two laps of 27 kilometres left to go, and a lead of 2:30.

And the gap for our two remaining breakaways of the day, Alexander Kamp (Trek-Segafredo) and Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix), has now risen a little to 3:05.

Race leader Stephen Williams (Bahrain-Victorious) grinds his way through the finish in a bunch of stragglers, his time at the top of the GC definitively over.

Official hot spot sprint classification from km 139: Dillier ahead of Kamp, while Andreas Kron (Lotto-Soudal), currently lying second overall, has snatched a second's time bonus with third. With race leader Stephen Williams (Bahrain Victorious) currently 8 minutes back, if there were no further changes in the stage from this point onwards, Kron would currently lead  overall by 2 seconds over Geraint Thomas (Inoes Grenadiers). Watch this space.

And the time gap for the breakaways remains at 2:25. Roads on this finishing circuit, by the way, seem technical, including at least one very steep descent, but all well-surfaced. 

Riding on home soil, reigning Swiss National Champion Dillier is logically unwilling to throw in the towel without putting up a major fight and the former Paris-Roubaix runner-up and fellow breakaway Kamp are still leading by 2:00 as they reach 40 km to go  

Time for the second ascent of three of the Pedrinate third cat. climb (2.4km at 8.2 percent).

Ineos Grenadiers lead in the main bunch, cheerfully shredding the advantage of the duo ahead to 1:35.

Kamp is dropped and Dillier presses on in the break

Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) heaves his way up the final sunbaked part of the Pedrinate to reach the summit alone and with an advantage of 1:24 on the bunch.

Kamp, meanwhile crosses the summit some 50 seconds back, and is then quickly sucked in by the peloton.

The solid chasing by Ineos Grenadiers in general and  Dylan van Baarle in particular on the Pedrinate and then on a very twisty descent is paying off dividends as Dillier's advantage drops to 1-15.

The climb has flattened out and after a spell of riding along a rather unappealing mish-mash of industrial estate roads, the gap stays the same: 1:15.

After 2,000 metres of vertical climbing, the bunch, it should be said, is a fraction of its full size and is down to 40 riders at most. 

Onto the final kilometre for a second last time, which is uphill but not too hard. It's mostly  a gently rising series of urban highways with a broad 'A' road leading up to the finishing gantries.

Dillier's advantage as he went over the finishing line, by the way, was still around 1:15. But he's still got one more ascent of the Pedrinate to go and a leader's jersey is now up for grabs...

Dillier ploughs on resolutely. 1-15 the gap. He's got about 10 km to the foot of the Pedrinate.

Lots of cheers for the man out front with the Swiss national colours on his back. If Dillier should win, by the way, it'd be his first since he took that title just under a year ago.

Evenepoel is struggling, according to race radio.

Dillier's lead is shrivelling away. Just 40 seconds now on a series of draggy little climbs.

Evenepoel, plugging away at the head of a small delegation of QuickStep-AlphaVinyl riders, is around 15 seconds adrift of the main group. 

He's not going down without a fight. 25 seconds of freedom left for Dillier, while Evenepoel is back on. 

Crash for Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates) on a short but technical descent.

Covi is back up after his fall on a sweeping righthand bend, jiggling his handlebars to try and straighten them out.

17 seconds between the stage leader Dillier and the main group. 

Israel-Premier Tech drive the main group and Dillier is caught at last.

A quick reminder of what's coming up: one more fast descent and then we're onto the 3rd category Pedrinate for a last time. 2.4 kilometres at 8.7 percent. Then there's 8.4 kilometres left before the finish, mostly downhill but with a steady little kick up in the last kilometre.

The main group is starting the final KoM of the day. Israel-Premier Tech still lead. 

Two Israel-Premier Tech riders leading at a ferocious pace and stretching out the peloton with a number of Ineos Grenadiers closely shadowing them behind. Meanwhile Evenepoel is dropped again.

Half-way up the climb, and Jakob Fuglsang and Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech) still lead the string. Or what's left of it.

Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) also reported dropped.

Fuglsang accelerates

Still a group of 20 riders at the summit of the Pedrinate despite Fuglsang's late surge.

Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) gets a few metres on the fast opening section of the descent off the Pedrinate.

And right behind Schachmann on the un-nervingly fast descent is Ineos Grenadiers Tom Pidcock. Though the gap is 50 metres at most.

Schachmann and Pidcocki brought back by a group of 15 riders. 

The road is flattening out now and they're all looking at each other.

Finally Fuglsang makes a move

50 metres for Fuglsang as a small chase group with Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) tries to catch him.

Fuglsang is still ahead, with Andreas Kron (Lotto-Soudal) trying to chase but getting reeled in.

Fuglsang still leads on a group of three chasers headed by Alexandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Thomas.

Thomas and Vlasov reach Fuglsang

And Schachmann and Neilson Powless (EF) are also there in a front group of five with Thomas, Fuglsang and Vlasov. 

Another four riders are almost getting across as the lead five swing over a short section of cobbles.

Schachmann leads into the final corner, driving away hard, but then Fuglsang accelerates and Vlasov comes over the top for the win.

Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) wins stage 5 of the 2022 Tour de Suisse.

Schachmann did a great acceleration there for his teammate, before Vlasov powered round him in the last 150 metres, dug deep and just held off a surging Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) with Fuglsang in third and Thomas fourth.

Already the winner of Switzerland's other WorldTour race, the Tour de Romandie this year,  we await official confirmation that Vlasov is now the new leader of the Tour de Suisse and the man to beat on the three showdown stages this weekend. 

Evenepoel, meantime, finishes more than 2 minutes down.

And there we have it, Vlasov now leads by 6 seconds on Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) and 14 seconds on Andreas Kron (Lotto-Soudal).

Some brief words from the new race leader and stage 5 winner: "I like Switzerland, it's a nice place and I'm happy to win again. But important days are coming for GC. The lead means more work for our team tomorrow [Saturday], and we will try to keep it of course. We will do our best."

A brief look at what's coming up on Friday's first mega-mountain stage of the 2022 Tour de Suisse.  It's 177.5 kilometres long from Locarno to Moosalp, and has a whopping 4,208 metres of vertical gain. There are only two classified climbs of the day, but the big catch is they're both Hors Categories.  The first, the Nufenenpass, peaks out at km 93 after 21 kilometres of climbing. The final climb to Moosalp is 18 kilometres long and with an average gradient of 8 percent. Sounds like a bunch sprint, then.

And here's a picture of Vlasov taking his fifth win of the season, and the one which sets him up as new leader of the Tour de Suisse. 

And a link to our full report and results for stage 5 of the Tour de Suisse can be found here.

Here are some more photos from the finish

Ok, that's it from the Tour de Suisse live for today, on a day which began with 17 riders down as DNS, and ended with a dramatic overhaul of the GC, just in time for the three big stages of the weekend. Worth noting that although Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe) now leads overall, Quin Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) remains atop the KoM ranking, Andreas Krön is still in charge of the Best Young Rider classification, and Andrea Leknessund (DSM) has another day in control of the points jersey. More tomorrow.

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