Remco Evenepoel is clearly the man to beat in stage five. The Olympic and world time trial champion was superb at the Dauphine where he took 20 seconds out of Jonas Vingegaard and was 48 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar. And with no Filippo Ganna or Stefan Bissegger after their stage one crashes it is hard to look beyond the big three.

The Belgian, world and Olympic champion in the discipline, showcased his prowess against the clock to catapult himself right back into general classification contention, gaining back 16 of the seconds he had lost to Pogacar through a hectic opening four days of racing.