Tour of Qatar Stage 5: Camel Race Track > Al Khor Corniche, 160kms

Are Jos Van Emden and Graeme Brown thinking of becoming mechanics in their next lives..?

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On such a windy stage FDJ's riders are huddled in a serious team-talk before the start...

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Fortunately, Philippe Gilbert arrives to give them some more useful advice...

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A group of racing camels watched a bigger group of racing cyclists start the stage...

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With the peloton racing at 70-kilometres-per-hour, Taylor Phinney has chosen a bad time to get another flat-tire..!

Robert Wagner is leading a five-man escape away...

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Tom Boonen's Omega Pharma-Quick-Step team are leading a steady pursuit, but the gap will grow to over five minutes soon...

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Whether friends or rivals, Thor Hushovd and Gilbert are at least good teamates on BMC...

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Tyler Farrar needs a push from Dekker and Van Summeren to put his chain back on...

Winds have split the peloton - and Gilbert is in the back split..!

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The peloton settles down again - so time for Farrar to make his bike-change...

Beppu seems happy with life as one of Green Edge's domestiques...

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Fischer comes back for his Garmin bottles but gets one instead from Sky - the team car is still with Farrar at the back...

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The long road across the Qatari desert reveals a paced peloton still four minutes down on the escape...

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Blaise Sonnery has crashed, and his left collar-bone is broken...

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A bigger crash has taken about 15 riders to the stoney floor...

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Hushovd is one 'star caught up in the spill...

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Another 'star, Filippo Pozzato, has crashed too - and he's out of the race with a broken collar-bone..!

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Kuchynski and Bodnar have moved away in front, with about 35-kilometres to go...

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Team Sky has started a cautious pursuit, but Stannard has an easy time riding up to the front with water-bottles for Knees...

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Bernhard Eisel talks tactics with Mark Cavendish - surely a big sprint will end this stage..?

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Baden Cooke is all ears as Beppu discusses Green Edge's sprint tactics...

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Bonar is poughing into a nasty headwind, but they've held off the peloton until the last 10-kilometres...

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Rabobank take over the serious chasing, today's a big day for their leader, Mark Renshaw...

Tom Boonen will be trying to win this stage as well...

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Mark Cavendish wins stage five into Al Khor - he wins by quite a few bike-lengths as well..!

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