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The race begin seems to be a contact delayed. Riders having some points with their bikes, little doubt.
Pidcock is the one non-starter however six riders did not end yesterday so the peloton is down to simply 146 riders.
The riders roll out of the beginning within the centre of Berga and start the impartial zone.
With about 5 minutes to the beginning of the neutralised zone, Vingegaard and everybody else have signed on for the day. Will the brand new race chief proceed the dominance he confirmed yesterday with one other win right this moment?
Some extra data about Pidcock after he annouced on Pinarello-Q36.5’s Instagram that he has left the race with a broken knee that may see him out for a while…
The impartial begin is because of occur in about half an hour.
One rider additionally not beginning right this moment is Pidcock with a „ballooned knee“. The Yorkshireman voices his frustration on not with the ability to race the ultimate climb of yesterday with one of the best and never with the ability to stick with it this weekend, however apparently he’ll want „a little bit of time for it to heal“ after crashing on the ultimate descent of yesterday…
Jerseys after stage 5
Two riders did not begin yesterday and 6 did not end. They had been:
However onto right this moment, it’s the last mountain stage. The riders will roll out of Berga and head throughout the 158.2km route that takes in 4 categorised climbs, together with the Especial climb of the Coll de Pradell, in addition to two intermediate sprints and a summit end on the class 1 ascent of the Queralt.
Patrick Lefevere has voiced his opinion on his former rider, Evenepoel, but once more saying how the Belgian star ought to give attention to one-day races slightly than week lengthy stage races and Grand Excursions…
>>> ‚It could properly prove that he is a one-day rider‘ – Former supervisor Patrick Lefevere questions Remco Evenepoel’s racing priorities
It was a blended day within the GC combat for Pink Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe as their large title chief, Remco Evenepoel, faltered on La Molina. Nonetheless, their different GC man, Florian Lipowitz, shone brightly and completed fourth on the day and is properly within the combat for a GC podium. His first since his shock podium end finally yr’s Tour de France.
>>> ‚No motive to panic‘ – Remco Evenepoel drops down Volta a Catalunya standings as Florian Lipowitz closes in on podium
It was a really scary finale descent for Tom Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) as he midjudged a nook and fell right into a ravine.
Let’s have a look again on the wonderful motion of the primary summit end yesterday with our put up race report…
Hola and welcome to the penultimate stage of the Volta a Catalunya 2026 stay right here on Cyclingnews‘ stay report web page.
Signal on and rider presentation is properly underway in Berga. The race does an enormous loop right this moment and we’ll see Berga once more proper earlier than the ultimate climb to the Santuari de Queralt the end of the stage.
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