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00:00Now that the track is closed, there's still a lot of room.
00:02There's still a lot of room.
00:04It's good, it's good, it's good.
00:06And now with Bennet, come on, with Bennet.
00:26It's good, it's good, it's still too far.
00:28No, but it's going to get better.
00:30No, no, no, it's good.
00:34That's not possible.
00:58It's really difficult. I need to try for myself.
01:02He was allowed to surf the wheels today.
01:05I never dreamed to be part of Tour de France,
01:09but now, yeah, I can't believe it.
01:12To win in Tour de France,
01:14second year in the big bunch sprint,
01:16yeah, for me was unbelievable.
01:21If you win a stage here,
01:23you're the best sprinter of the world for one day.
01:25Jakobsen!
01:27So it will be hectic.
01:29There's not enough space for everyone.
01:31You have to make good choices and have good gaps,
01:33and then you can win the stage.
01:35Huge crash on the left-hand side.
01:37I need all the little details to be 100% to be able to raise my arms,
01:40especially in Tour de France.
01:44If you can predict everything, you'll be rich, probably.
01:58Stage 5 takes us north-west
02:00for the Tour's first ever visit to San Vulbar.
02:02Another bunch sprint on the cards,
02:04with some rain forecast in the final.
02:17There is no keenness for these riders to go on the attack.
02:23Ten minutes of racing, seven watts average power.
02:30Well, like on Stage 3, the peloton had decided to take it easy.
02:34Clément Rousseau attacked after 25k,
02:36and he was soon joined by Matteo Versi.
02:39The two riders both hail from Lyon,
02:41which is close to San Vulbar.
02:43They opened up a four-minute gap,
02:45with Lidl Trek and Alpecin Deceuninck
02:47setting the tempo in the main bunch.
02:52The last gap is 4.25 seconds.
02:57At the halfway stage, there was still no major urgency in the bunch,
03:00with the average speed below 40km an hour.
03:03The two local lads still leading by three and a half minutes,
03:07with the sprint teams taking turns on the front.
03:14The gap for now is good at 3.30.
03:17You don't have to pull it closer and closer,
03:21then they will extend and extend for sure.
03:26Oh, Taddei was very close.
03:28Oh, big crash.
03:30A number of riders have just hit the centre reservation.
03:42The speed and the tension increasing in the peloton,
03:45especially after that crash involving Peau Bilbao,
03:48and it would soon be game over for the two escapees.
03:57Hey guys, it starts to block now,
04:00so we have to pay attention now.
04:02GC teams are there, Jumbo is there,
04:04so I think it's now to take the position for the second line.
04:13End of breakaway.
04:14End of breakaway, the two have been caught.
04:19There's a peloton exploding in the back, guys.
04:23Excellent work, good job.
04:26And Astana doing a good job.
04:28Last week, on the other sprinter stage,
04:31I kept on saying they're too early, they're too early,
04:33and they were using a lot of their firepower way too early,
04:36but they're still very composed at the moment.
04:38Most of the team is there.
04:42Cavendish gets squeezed a little bit.
04:44Abrahamsson flat out, flat out.
04:46Abrahamsson flat out, 57 kilometers an hour,
04:501,000 meters of racing to go on stage five.
04:54And suddenly, Philipsen is in great position
04:57just there on the wheel of the world champion.
04:59A lot of movement again in the front.
05:01DSM, permanent personnel going quite early.
05:06Leaning over on each other,
05:08Philipsen is not prepared to give an inch here.
05:11He gets on the wheel of Mathieu van der Poel.
05:14Now he has a chance to sprint.
05:16Cavendish gets ready on the wheel of Philipsen.
05:19He's not with his lead.
05:21Cavendish bumps one rider out of the way.
05:23Gaviria Cavendish.
05:25This is really dicey now.
05:27400 meters to go.
05:29The sprint opens up with Ryan Gibbons on the left-hand side on his wheel.
05:33Here's Marijn Vandenberg, also Pascal Ackermann,
05:36a big swooping right-hand turn.
05:38Pascal Ackermann, Marc Cavendish.
05:40Marc Cavendish dives to the right-hand side.
05:42Oh, big crash.
05:43Marc Cavendish all the way to the line.
05:46Max Bissau, record breaker.
05:48Stage 35 in a Tour de France.
05:53You boys are great!
05:56Oh, yeah!
06:12Oh, I'm having a little bit of disbelief.
06:18The Tour de France is bigger than cycling, isn't it?
06:30Yeah, we...
06:32We gamble, come here and try and win at least one stage, you know.
06:37Yeah, we've done it.
06:42Yeah.
07:00We did it, mate.
07:02We did it.
07:03We move all together.
07:04Let's go.
07:05I don't know about you.
07:07Project 35 has succeeded.
07:09Cavendish is now the all-time record holder of stage wins
07:12on the Tour de France, one ahead of Eddy Merckx.
07:17Thanks to some nifty bike-handling skills,
07:19Pogacar stayed out of trouble and remains our race leader
07:22by 45 seconds from Evan Apolle.
07:26Gemay has taken the green jersey from Abrahamson.
07:29The Eritrean leads Pedersen by eight points.
07:37Abrahamson is still our king of the mountains, though.
07:40He is five points ahead of Pogacar.
07:46And Evan Apolle remains our best young rider,
07:49but today was all about one man.
07:52All hail Mark Cavendish, a true legend
07:54and now the record 35-time stage winner
07:57at the world's biggest bike race.