Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) ended Jonathan Milan’s hopes of a UAE Tour hat-trick as he overpowered the Lidl-Trek rider in a detailed dash on stage 5.
Matteo Malucelli (Astana-XDS) produced an excellent throw on the road to push the inexperienced jersey of Milan down into third, whereas Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) was caught out by a late crash within the ending straight.
Two crashes within the closing 3km marred the technical finale at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, with a number of GC riders caught exterior the neutralisation zone and combating to restrict their time losses, earlier than a crash underneath the flamme rouge break up the bunch in half.
Tadej Pogačar ripped up the rulebook for flat levels by spending greater than 100km in a breakaway, and the pink jersey prolonged his general lead over second-placed Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) to 21 seconds by successful the day’s first intermediate dash, choosing up three bonus seconds within the course of.
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