Tour of Qatar: Stage 5 Al Zubara Fort > Madinat Al Shamal, 154kms

Servais Knaven conducts a team talk with his Sky riders before the stage-start...

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Dirk DeMol conducts his team talk with Radio Shack riders - something's being planned...

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No 1 target is Mark Cavendish, No 1 in the race and the race-leader...

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Edvald Boasson Hagen has attacked alone, but now has Marco Haller with him...

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Mark Cavendish is alert to any moves against his leadership...

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BMC is doing all the chasing, led here by Lawrence Warbasse...

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Cavendish looks very comfortable behind his Omega teamates and those of BMC...

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Heinrich Haussler gets a wheel change from a mechanic struggling with the forks...

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Bernhard Eisel is the next Sky rider to attack - he is chased down by BMC's Taylor Phinney...

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Boasson Hagen attacks again, he too is chased down by Phinney..!

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Ian Stannard makes a big surge now, but he is tracked by another BMC rider..!

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After about 60-kilometres, Martin Elmiger gets an escape going - Sky and BMC have called a truce, for now..!

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Fumiyuki Beppu may be injured from yesterday's crash, but he's still fetching water bottles...

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The peloton passes the fort of Al Zubarah near the northern coast of Qatar...

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The wind has split the peloton now, ejecting the weaker riders out the back...

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Four clear groups are visible from behind the peloton that includes a Boasson Hagen caught up in a crash earlier...

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Surprise, surprise, it is BMC leading the race into the wind and hurting Team Sky the most...

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The peloton has regrouped as it passes a very modern fort at Al Shamal...

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Stijn Devolder has got back to the peloton after a nasty fall near the Al Zubarah fort...

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Bernhard Eisel and Taylor Phinney have escaped on the finish circuit, they have Niki Terpstra marking them...

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Phinney takes the lead, knowing Omega will chase...

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Sure enough, Omega are chasing - each and every one of them..!

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Mark Cavendish wins stage five from Yauheni Hutarovich and Aidis Kruopis...

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Cavendish signals stage-win number three with one more flat stage to come..!

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