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>>> Tour de Suisse: Tadej Pogačar powers to stage 5 win and seals commanding total victory
There have been some actually good good points within the GC on the ultimate day, the most important being from Lemmen who jumped up eight locations to take tenth place within the ultimate standings. Sergio Higuita (XDS-Astana) up 4 to ninth, Enric Mas (Movistar) up eight to twelfth, Riccitello up three to seventh plus Foss and Van Wilder each going up two to fourth and fifth. Bagioli the large loser dropping 16 positions from fourth to twentieth.
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High 10
1. Pogačar (UAD) 4:10’41″2. Martinez (TBV) +7″3. Lemmen (TVL) +1’33″4. Widar (LOI) +1’53″5. Riccitello (DCT)6. Mas (MOV) all S.T.7. Carapaz (EFE) +2’00″8. Foss (NCI) +2’05″9. Van Wilder (SOQ) +2’07″10. Quintana (MOV) +2’12“
Remaining GC
1. Pogačar (UAD) 15:08’43″2. Carapaz (EFE) +6’32″3. Vacek (LTK) +6’53“
Lemmen does, certainly, end in third on the day with no signal of Quintana or every other riders.
Martinez crosses the road very quickly after him and nearly collapses throughout the road. Lemmen ought to take third on the day.
Tadej Pogačar wins stage 5 and the general title of the Tour de Suisse 2026. Three stage wins to his title and he goes to the Tour de France because the undisputed head and shoulders above the remaining favorite.
500 metres to go and it’s yet one more win for Tadej Pogačar incoming.
Tadej Pogačar catches Lenny Martinez with about 800 metres to go and he simply drops him instantly.
Flamme Rouge!
Pogačar accelerates but once more and he’s going to catch Martinez inside the ultimate 1000 metres of the race. Simply 7″ hole, now. 2’26“ again to Carapaz, Vacek and co.
I feel the race chief went sooner than he wished when Scotson unintentionally cut up the group leaving the yellow jersey and Carapaz off the Riccitello led bunch.
Pogačar appears to now be struggling to get to Martinez however he ought to. He has dropped into the small cog for the primary time this week.
2km to go now for Martinez with Pogačar, now swaying on the bike a bit, is simply 15″ from the race lead on the stage.
Martinez is doing an outstanding journey however he’s all around the bike and is grimacing.
3km to go for Martinez and the hole to Pogačar is now at 28″.
Vacek is closing in on the Carapaz group. He’s on some very good kind. They’re over 2 minutes down on the leaders however it’s nonetheless an enormous combat.
4km to go for Martinez however he’s unlikely to take the day as Pogačar is now 34″ away.
Pogačar floats by Quintana and he about to catch Lemmen. He’s completely flying up this climb. The velocity he’s going at is astonishing.
5km to go
Lemmen is now 28″ behind Martinez with Pogačar at 48″, Quintana in that hole as properly.
Martinez is holding a minute on Pogačar with 6km to go.
Lemmen and Quintana are nonetheless pushing on however Pogačar is closing. He catches Schmid, Gaffuri and Fisher-Black.
Martinez extends his hole to Pogačar who seems to be overheating as he pours a complete bidon over his again.
Pogačar catches and passes Mollema.
Assault out entrance
Martinez kicks on with Lemmen making an attempt to comply with. Quintana simply using his personal tempo.
Assault in peloton!
Tadej Pogačar (UAD)Richard Carapaz (EFE)
However the Ecuadorian is already gapped by the race chief.
Assault in chase
Louis Vervake (SOQ)
The inexperienced KOM jersey goes solo from the chase group and is closing in on the leaders relatively rapidly.
Benoot returns to the entrance for Riccitello. Very attention-grabbing that Decathlon-CMA CGM are being so aggressive.
Again within the peloton, Wellens has returned and is pushing arduous for Pogačar. 1’56“ between them and the leaders.
10km to go
The leaders now have 22″ on the chasers with the peloton at 1’49“.
The chasing group now begin chasing however this will already be too late as Lemmen takes the dash in Ollon.
Assault
Bart Lemmen (TVL)
He follows a bike because the break utterly sat up. Lenny Mattinez and Nairo Quintana comply with him.
20km to go
The hole sits at 2’00“ but once more. The riders are near the intermediate dash in Ollon (Route d’Aigle) that comes on the base of the climb.
It’s all coming right down to the ultimate climb to Villars-sur-Ollon on the ultimate stage of the Tour de Suisse Males 2026.
Again onto correct descending once more and the hole drops as soon as extra at 1’40“.
30km to go
The peloton are actually nearly again to 2 minutes from the breakaway.
The race is on the plateau of the descent now. It’s seeing the hole to the peloton develop once more to 1’44“.
That final ascent of the climb was devoted to the late Gino Mäder who died after crashing at this race in 2023. An excellent expertise who was misplaced far too quickly and is missed by many.
KOM (Col de la Croix 3)
1. Martinez (TBV) 20pts2. Mollema (LTK) 14pts3. Vervaeke (SOQ) 8pts4. Quintana (MOV) 6pts5. Schmid (JAY) 4pts
Double caught by the peloton.
Martinez leads excessive of the ultimate full ascent of the Col de la Croix forward of Mollema and Vervaeke.
Reminder of the leaders
Lenny Martinez (TBV)Bauke Mollema (LTK)Nairo Quintana (MOV)Finn Fisher-Black (RBH)Louis Vervaeke (SOQ)Mauro Schmid (JAY)Mattia Gaffuri (TPP)Bart Lemmen (TVL)
Callum Scotson and Tiesj Benoot of Decathlon-CMA CGM are pushing the tempo with the time hole dropping to 1’22“ to the break and so they have additionally dropped Wellens from UAE.
Fourth on GC, Bagioli, has been dropped by the peloton. He is not made for the large mountains and that’s exhibiting. His teammate, Vacek, continues to be within the peloton on Carapaz’s wheel.
Decathlon-CMA CGM come to the entrance of the peloton for Matt Riccitello. Attention-grabbing transfer to probably ship him on the assault earlier than the height of the Col de la Croix.
50km to go
The hole at 2’04“ again to the peloton as Politt additionally peels off and is distanced by the bunch.
Double has been distanced by the break for the second. He has executed a variety of work for Schmid.
As a result of Vervaeke took 2nd within the 2nd Tissot dash after successful the first, it means he wins the Tissot watch. I am certain you are all thrilled by that information.
Additional abandons
Domen Novak (UAD)Ben Swift (NCI)
Novak mainly did his job for Pogačar and simply determined to cease after the beginning/end line.
Lemmen dropped by the break as Martinez can also be out of the again however he gave the impression to be having points with the bike relatively than his legs.
The tempo is upped by the peloton led by Nils Politt (UAD).
One lap to go
The break head over the beginning/end line and head into the final lap.
August caught by the peloton.
Eulálio has been dropped by the break.
Extra abandons
Artur Kluckers (TUD)Jonas Rutsch (LOI)Milan Vader (PQT)Colby Simmons (EFE)
The hole continues to go up and is now at 2’34“.
It’s round 37 levels Celcius within the valley backside.
Vervaeke and Schmid share the wins within the Tissot KM as Mollema will get again in once more.
Mollema, Eulálio, Lemmen and Fisher-Black are struggling off the again of the breakaway.
Crash
Aleksandr Vlasov (RBH)
Only a contact of wheels and down he goes. He hit the highway on his personal.
UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG are pushing arduous within the peloton and Novak has simply swung off the entrance. Nevertheless, The hole has grown to the biggest of the day at 2’21“.
The hole goes past two minutes for the break once more.
A number of riders getting dropped out of the again of the peloton.
Double appears to be working for Swiss nationwide champion and teammate, Schmid. The brand new impetus means the hole goes again as much as 1’57“.
Onto the climb and August has been distanced from the lead group with Fisher-Black additionally beginning to lose contact.
60km to go
Peloton now 1’41“ off the break.
The riders are about to begin the ultimate full ascent of the Col de la Croix. Will Pogačar have a go this time up?
The riders attain the underside of the descent for the penultimate time. There may be yet one more full ascent to return which additionally consists of the Tissot KM, not that the bonus seconds actually matter to the break, and even the peloton other than for the riders sitting across the podium positions behind Pogačar.
There appears to be an easement on the quantity of riders abandoning.
Now the riders are on the plateau the hole has dropped once more to 1’31“ as Tim Wellens and Domen Novak of UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG prepared the ground.
80km to go
The breakaway now has 2’00“ on the peloton for the primary time.
Eulálio is struggling to comply with on the steep and technical bits of the descent however he’s again on once more now.
Vervaeke now has 44 factors and leads by 26 factors over Mollema. He’ll win the KOM jersey if he finishes within the time restrict.
KOM (Col de la Croix 2)
1. Vervaeke (SOQ) 20pts2. Mollema (LTK) 14pts3. Double (JAY) 8pts4. August (NCI) 6pts5. Schmid (JAY) 4pts
90km to go
The hole goes again out to 1’50“ for the riders out entrance.
The hole drops to 1’35“.
Presently 12 riders both did not begin or have deserted the race immediately.
Abandon
Felix Ørn-Kristoff (LOI)
The break head excessive of the Col de la Croix for the second time and so they maintain roughly the identical benefit as they did on the descent of the earlier lap.
Abandon
Oscar Riesebeek (APT)
That is simply brutal.
The riders are nearing the highest with 1’50“ splitting the break and bunch.
5km from the highest of the climb.
Yet one more abandon
Clement Russo (GFC)
Into the ultimate 100km and the small hole seems to counsel that Pogačar needs to exit with a bang and take one other stage win in addition to the general title.
Two laps to go
The peloton are nonetheless simply sat round two minutes down on the 11 man break.
Abandon
Davide De Pretto (JAY)
One other one gone. That is brutal.
The warmth is baking down on the riders and a variety of them are actually struggling on the market.
The riders roll via the beginning/end line in Villars-sur-Ollon for the primary time since roll-out earlier this afternoon.
Extra abandons
Markel Beloki (EFE)Marijn van den Berg (EFE)
The problem of the stage coupled with the warmth is proving an excessive amount of for lots of riders.
Mathieu van der Poel (APT) placed on a terrific exhibiting within the ITT yesterday, lacking out on the win by 0.7 of a second. However, the UCI has deemed that former world highway race champion confirmed an excessive amount of to viewers after showing topless on the ’scorching seat‘ and fined him 500 CHF regardless of the temperatures being within the excessive 30s…
>>> Mathieu van der Poel fined for ‚inappropriate apparel‘ whereas on scorching seat in Tour de Suisse stage 4
Abandons
Menno Huising (TVL)Dion Smith (NSN)
These two riders have rather a lot to race for immediately. Carapaz holds onto 2nd place by simply 5″ over Matthias Vacek (LTK). Nevertheless, the Czech rider will not be a climber. Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how the very best younger rider copes with the terrain immediately. His teammate, Andrea Bagioli (LTK) is simply 19″ behind him with Brandon McNulty (UAD) the following closest at 49″.
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110km to go
The hole is just under 2 minutes for the leaders. They want far more hole if they are going to have an opportunity of being concerned on the finish of the stage.
And onto the climb they go! This full ascent is nineteen.6km lengthy with a mean of seven% and a max of 17.9%.
The race has nearly reached the underside of the descent. They’ve a really transient interval on the valley backside after which they’re again to climbing the Col de la Croix once more. This time it’s the first of two full ascents with our first passage of the end line.
August is the very best positioned rider within the break. He sits in 14th place at 7’36“ down on Pogačar.
Lead group:
Afonso Eulálio (TBV)Lenny Martinez (TBV)Andrew August (NCI)Bauke Mollema (LTK)Nairo Quintana (MOV)Finn Fisher-Black (RBH)Louis Vervaeke (SOQ)Mauro Schmid (JAY)Paul Double (JAY)Mattia Gaffuri (TPP)Bart Lemmen (TVL)
Peloton +1’40“
It appears to be like like Bart Lemmen (TVL) can also be on this lead group…
130km to go
The hole expands to 1’25“ between the break and the peloton with Schmid, Double, Vervaeke, Mollema and Martinez the one confirmed riders within the group of 11 riders.
The group comes again collectively as 11 riders once more with 55″ on the peloton. They’re on a plateau round midway down the descent in the meanwhile.
There are two different riders with Schmid now as they appear to push on away from the remaining.
Mauro Schmid (JAY) is out entrance and has simply pushed away from the remainder of the break on the descent.
KOM (Col de la Croix)
1. Vervaeke (SOQ) 6pts2. Mollema (LTK) 4pts3. Martinez (TBV) 3pts4. Schmid (JAY) 2pts5. Double (JAY) 1pt
How early is simply too early for Pogačar to go on the assault?
The hole does appear to be coming down once more. UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG do not appear to wish to let this go.
140km to go
The primary climb of the day is finished and dusted with 11 riders away from the peloton.
The inexperienced KOM jersey of Louis Vervaeke (SOQ) has made it into the group that slimmed right down to 11 riders as they went excessive with simply 15″ on the peloton.
A number of strikes now popping out of the peloton with this rapidly changing into tough to regulate. There may be now a lead group of round 15 riders as they’re about to peak the climb.
The seven leaders have simply 10″ on the peloton.
Seven riders are clear as the highest of the primary ascent of the Col de la Croix.
A number of assaults within the peloton
There are round 6 riders making an attempt to interrupt off the entrance of the peloton.
Abandon
Alexander Kamp (UXM)
Unhappy to see. The Danish rider did not final very lengthy.
Mechanical
Attila Valter (TBV)
This occurred similtaneously Haller’s crash and could also be associated.
Make certain to learn the report of the final stage of the ladies’s Tour de Suisse, it was fairly the finale to an outstanding race…
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Crash
Marco Haller (TUD)
Undecided how that occurred. Hopefully he’s okay to proceed.
UAE Workforce Emirates-XRG have taken up the pacing with no strikes going away simply but as they tackle the steepest a part of the climb.
Non-starters
Matthew Brennan (TVL)Julian Alaphilippe (TUD)Alec Segaert (TBV)Lucas Hamilton (NCI)Sjoerd Bax (PQT)
151.1km to go
Racing is underway and it’s all collectively for the second.
The neutralised begin is in simply a few minutes.
The riders have yet one more very sunny day to race in with temperatures anticipated at a max of 29°c in Villars-sur-Ollon, will probably be hotter within the valley backside.
Here’s what the riders have on the menu immediately. Over 4000 metres of climbing on only one climb that’s taken on 3 times, twice in full with the third being cut up. The riders begin in Villars-sur-Ollon and journey the second half of the Col de la Croix after which on the end they journey the primary half, ending in Villars-sur-Ollon.
It’s honest to say that, along with his lead of 4’22“ over Richard Carapaz (EFE) in 2nd place, Pogačar appears to be like like he has gained this 12 months’s race, ticking off yet one more WorldTour race off the record. That mentioned, something can nonetheless occur!
It was a dramatic ending to the time trial yesterday with Tadej Pogačar (UAD) taking the stage by lower than a second from Mathieu van der Poel (APT).
>>> Tour de Suisse: Tadej Pogačar denies Mathieu van der Poel stage 4 victory and extends total lead with 53.4 kph time trial
Good day and welcome to the ultimate stage of the 2026 males’s Tour de Suisse. Now we have already had the ladies’s race come to a dramatic finish on the course round Villars-sur-Ollon. Now it’s the flip of the boys.
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