La 5e et dernière étape de l'AlUla Tour, qui était aussi l'étape reine de cette édition 2024, a été remportée par Simon Yates ! Comme attendu, une bonne partie de la course s'est jouée dans Harrat Uwayrid, une terrible ascension de 2,8 kilomètres à 12,5% de moyenne. Quatre hommes ont franchi ensemble le sommet, situé à 8 bornes de l'arrivée, à savoir Finn Fisher-Black, Rafal Majka (UAE Team Emirates), William Junior Lecerf (Soudal Quick-Step) et Simon Yates (Team Jayco AlUla). Le quatuor a résisté au retour des poursuivants, et c'est au sprint qu'ils se sont expliqués à l'issue des 150,2 kilomètres de course. À ce jeu-là, le plus rapide a donc été le Britannique du Team Jayco AlUla, qui s'est dressé sur les pédales à plus de 200 mètres de la ligne et a tenu le choc jusqu'au bout.
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00:43 It's been a tricky couple of days just to
01:00 get here on a crosswind, a lot of stress in
01:02 the front. Quite a dangerous sprint
01:04 yesterday as well, so managed to come
01:06 through unscathed. I'm expecting
01:08 quite an aggressive start, I think a lot
01:10 of guys got nothing to lose. And yeah,
01:13 we'll try and do the stage, try and get
01:15 the stage, but we never know.
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01:20 What we see is the first race for me and
01:30 the guys up here. I mean, I was training
01:32 quite good at home and I still have good
01:35 numbers, so I will do my best and we'll
01:38 see if the top will be fourth, second,
01:39 third or tenth. I don't know.
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01:44 It's hard, but it's just stay there. Like
01:58 we did it a couple times just before the
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02:03 was easier to walk up it at our pace
02:04 going up in recon, so it's that steep.
02:07 We've got the smallest gears on and
02:09 hopefully we can get up there without
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02:13 It's only my first race and to be
02:18 directly in the mix for the GC, it's
02:20 quite special. And also we have some big
02:23 names here, so it will be nice to race
02:25 along them and try to beat them.
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08:26 Yeah, I was a bit nervous. I was not sure because I thought Finn was second on the stage.
08:37 I was not sure. Somebody was coming really quickly on my left-hand side in the sprint.
08:41 And, yeah, I wasn't sure. So, yeah, if that's the case, yeah, job well done.
08:48 Very important race for us. Like I've been saying all week, we come here for Lula now, a big partner of ours as well.
08:54 So, yeah, fantastic we can pull it off.
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