{"id":2031690,"date":"2026-07-07T17:39:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031690"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:39:36","slug":"tour-de-france-stage-5-preview-the-sprinters-get-their-first-true-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2031690","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Stage 5 Preview: The Sprinters Get Their First True Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stage-5.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 7, 2026 11:39AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Lannemezan \u2013 Pau: 158.3km \/ 1,600m+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bunch sprinters will wake up with a smile on the morning of stage 5.<\/p>\n<p>After four days of TTs and hills, the fastest finishers of the\u00a0Tour de France\u00a0will see their chances on a stage that\u2019s almost as flat as a crepe.<\/p>\n<p>Race officials hinted they made this stage as easy as possible to apologize to the sprinters for making them wait this long. So prepare yourselves for a by-the-numbers sprint stage: doomed French breakaway, a late chase, a crazy final 5K \u2014 you know the routine.<\/p>\n<p>The final kilometer is flat, straightforward, and very fast. First to the line takes early bragging rights in the sprinter battle and possibly also the green jersey from stage 4 winner and overnight points competition leader Mads Pedersen. Though he will be looking to hold onto the jersey for a good while<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"u-text-transform--upper u-font-weight--bold u-letter-spacing--1\"><strong>Start<\/strong>: 8:05 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<li class=\"u-text-transform--upper u-font-weight--bold u-letter-spacing--1\"><strong>Est. Finish:\u00a0<\/strong>11:37 a.m. ET<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published July 7, 2026 11:39AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france\/tour-de-france-stage-5-preview-2026\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/stage-5.jpg&#8221;] Jim Cotton Published July 7, 2026 11:39AM Lannemezan \u2013 Pau: 158.3km \/ 1,600m+ The bunch sprinters will wake up with a smile on the morning of stage 5. After four days of TTs and hills, the fastest finishers of the\u00a0Tour de France\u00a0will see their chances on a stage that\u2019s almost as flat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2031690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2031690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2031690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2031690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2031690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}