Tour de France 2025: stage five updates from the time trial from Caen – live

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Today’s time checks: Ivan Romeo (Movistar) is the quickest rider past the first checkpoint by some distance thus far, travelling the first 8.2 kilometres in 9min 51sec. The next time check is at 16.4km and the third one is at 24.8km. Romeo has already passed the two riders who started in front of him.

France’s Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa–B&B Hotels) is in the white jersey for best young rider and will be riding on his home turf of Normandy today. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) will wear the polka dot jersey for King of the Mountains today. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) is the current holder of the green jersey for best sprinter. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

An intriguing sub-plot: Still eligible for the best young rider (under-25) category, Remco Evenepoel is the odds-on favourite to win today’s stage but should the Belgian endure a rare bad day at the ITT office, there’s a decent chance Scotland’s very own Oscar Onley could take the white jersey.

Riding in only his second Tour de France, the 22-year-old from Perth is a highly commendable seventh overall on General Classification but is only 29 seconds behind Kevin Vauquelin, who is currently in possession of the garment and will have plenty of support as he rides today’s ITT on his home roads of Normandy. It’s a tall order but a big performance from Oscar (and a poor one from Remco) could see the Picnic PostNL rider wrestle the white jersey from the Frenchman’s shoulders.

Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL) pictured ahead of the first stage of this year’s Tour de France. Photograph: Shutterstock

An email: “Can you remind me please what Oscar Onley’s TTs are like?” asks Nick. “I know he’s a climber and so far an amazing GC top 10. Do you reckon he can hold that to Paris? Everything crossed.”

There’s a long way to go before Paris so it’s far too early to say if Oscar can stay in the top 10 but I read somewhere that his team’s plan is for him to hunt stage wins. To be honest, I don’t know much about his time-trialling prowess but he was part of the team that won the TTT during his first Grand Tour, the Vuelta, in 2023.

Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Yevgeniy Fedorov (XDS Astana) has rolled down the ramp and started putting the early stages of the course behind him. He’s followed 90 seconds later by Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies).

Remco Evenepoel: The last time the Belgian lost an Individual Time Trial was on the final stage of last year’s Tour, when he was beaten by the race winner Tadej Pogacar. He has since won the Olympic ITT, World Championship ITT and Belgian National ITT, among other races.

Ones to watch in today’s ITT

Currently in last place on General Classification, Yevgeniy Fedorov (XDS Astana) will be the first rider down the ramp at 12.10pm (BST) but here are a list of the main contenders for today’s stage and the times they are due to set off. Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease A Bike) could be the first rider to set a time that could prove hard to beat and he rolls out at 12.49pm. Of course there’s also every chance I have managed to omit the name of today’s winner from my list of contenders but we’ll find out in due course …

• 12.49pm: Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease A Bike)

• 2.58pm: Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike)

• 3.36pm: Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe)

• 3.44pm: Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step)

• 3.54pm: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease A Bike)

• 3.56pm: Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease A Bike)

• 3.58pm: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)

General Classification after stage four

• 1. Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 16hrs 46mins 00secs

• 2. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) Same time

• 3. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +8secs

• 4. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +19secs

• 5. Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +26secs

• 6. Enric Mas (Spa-Movistar) +48secs

• 7. Oscar Onley (GB/Picnic PostNL) +55secs

• 8. Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) Same time

• 9. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal Quick-Step) +58secs

• 10. Mattias Skjelmose (Den/Lidl-Trek) +7secs

Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) held on to the yellow jersey by the skin of his teeth yesterday but is expected to lose it in today’s Individual Time Trial. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

Pogacar secures century of wins in thrilling finish

Stage four report: Tadej Pogacar secured his 100th career win on stage four of the Tour de France, after the defending champion narrowly outsprinted the race leader Mathieu van der Poel just before the line. Jeremy Whittle reports from Rouen …

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard pull away from their rivals on the Rampe Saint-Hilaire, the final climb of yesterday’s stage into Rouen. Photograph: Bernard Papon/AP

Stage five: Caen to Caen (33km Individual Time Trial)

From William Fotheringham’s stage-by-stage guide: The first decisive day in the battle for the overall, a relatively long time trial on the rolling bocage north-east of Caen, largely on wide main roads that will suit the most powerful riders in the field. The favourites need to at least limit any losses; the winner should be a pure rouleur.

In the preview he submitted before the race started, m’learned colleague Lord Fotheringham originally tipped Filippo Ganna for the stage win today having failed to foresee that the big Italian Ineos Grenadiers rider would be forced to abandon the race with a concussion after crashing during the first stage. The Swiss Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale rider Stefan Bissegger is another man who would have had his eye on victory today but he was also forced to abandon the race on the opening day.