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Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) cemented his lead on the Tour de Suisse by soloing to victory on the summit end at Carì on stage 5.
The Briton was teed up for victory by a outstanding stint of pace-making from his teammate João Almeida, who helped himself to second place on the day, simply 5 seconds down.
Egan Bernal (Ineos) took a battling third place at 15 seconds forward of a formidable Matthew Riccitello (Israel Premier Tech) and Enric Mas (Movistar) on a day when Tadej Pogačar’s key mountain domestiques underlined their readiness for the Tour de France.
After Ineos had been to the fore for a lot of the afternoon, UAE Team Emirates took over on the climb to the end, with Isaac del Toro starting the winnowing course of for Yates. The entrance group started to be whittled down in earnest as soon as Almeida took over with 6.5km to go.
Soon afterwards, dangermen like Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) have been distanced, leaving solely ten riders in rivalry with 5km remaining.
Almeida continued to dial up the tempo thereafter, and solely three riders – Mas, Bernal and Riccitello – remained involved with the UAE duo come the ultimate 3km of the climb.
Yates’ inevitable assault lastly got here with 1.7km to go. Bernal and Mas tried to observe, however the Colombian quickly tapped out to observe his personal tempo. Mas managed to remain in contact with Yates into the ultimate kilometre, however he too needed to yield when the Briton kicked once more 800m from the road.
On the strategy to the road, Almeida underscored his power by catching and passing Bernal and Mas to take second place on the stage.
In the general standings, Almeida stays in second place, now 35 seconds behind Yates, whereas Bernal strikes as much as third at 1:11.
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