Stage 5 of the Critérium du Dauphiné was neutralised after two mass crashes with 21km remaining that noticed an enormous variety of riders fall, together with yellow jersey Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep), Primož Roglič (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Juan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates).
The commissaires introduced the race to a halt after the peloton was hit by two nearly simultaneous crashes on a stretch of moist street on the run-in to the end in Saint-Priest.
Up to 50 riders seem to have come down within the two crashes. Evenepoel was among the many fallers, and the Belgian spent a while sitting on the roadside earlier than rising gingerly to his toes. Roglič was rapidly again to his toes after the crash, as was his Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Jai Hindley.
The lengthy record of fallers additionally included Tao Geoghegan Hart (Lidl-Trek), in addition to the Visma-Lease a Bike pairing of Dylan van Baarle and Steven Kruijswijk. Van Baarle appeared to have sustained a shoulder harm within the crash.
Evenepoel and Chris Froome had been later concerned in discussions with their fellow riders and with the commissaires over whether or not the stage would proceed in any respect.
Speaking to the host broadcaster, Romain Combaud (dsm-firmenich PostNL) signalled his doubts concerning the stage’s resumption.
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