Tour de France Stage 5: Arras > Amiens, 190kms

Nicolas Edet and Pierre-Luc Perichon have attacked right away...

Perichon is alone in front as he passes the Canadian WW1 memorial on Vimy ridge...

The peloton is passing the Canadian memorial in ones and twos after a huge crash earlier...

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Jack Bauer went down in the crash and has some nasty leg injuries that make pedalling hard impossible...

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Michael Matthews is suffering alone after being left behind by the pace of the fractured peloton...

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Alex Dowsett hasn't crashed, he's just having a grim time of it today...

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Dani Navarro is in severe pain from his crash injuries, and he's lost Nacer Bouhanni as team-leader...

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Another crash halfway through the stage brings down 20 riders or more...

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Stijn Devolder paces a bruised Bauke Mollema back to the peloton...

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Tour de France 2015 - Stage 5

The peloton is a lot smaller after yet another crash on some wind-swept plains...

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Perichon is still out in front, but only because of the crashes slowing the peloton behind...

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Australian fans cheer the Tour as it nears their nation's WW1 memorial at Villers-Bretonneux...

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Nathan Haas livens up the racing soon after the feed-zone, will this stage now come alive..?

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Koren, Van Baarle and Talansky join Haas at the front, this is looking good..!

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Wouter Poels brings Sky up to the front and kills the Cannondale move - this will be the last attack of the day..!

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Bauer hasn't given up yet, but he's unable to pedal properly and after another crash will stop for good...

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Matthews is dangling off the back after another small crash - he'll get in a big gruppetto and lose 14-minutes, but still be in the Tour...

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Tour de France 2015 - Stage 5

The peloton first passes the South African WW1 memorial at Bois Delville...

Andrew Talansky has suffered his second crash of the day and needs a bike fixed - in a hurry, please..!

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The peloton passes the Australian National monument at Villers-Bretonneaux with 20-kilometres to go...

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Tour de France 2015 - Stage 5

Andre Greipel easily wins stage five from Sagan and Cavendish..!

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Tony Martin remains race-leader for another day after a thoughtful day amongst the battlefields of World War 1...

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