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Volta ao Algarve em Bicicleta 2019: Stage 5

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the final stage of the Volta ao Algarve. Today's stage runs 173.5km from Faro to the summit finish at the Alto do Malhão.

 

The stage is just about to get underway in Faro, where the temperature is a pleasant 23°C. Today's final stage sees an uphill finish, four climbs on the way, and the final chance for riders to affect the general classification.

Here's the map for today's stage, a twisting route inland to Malhão.

The final stage of the Vola ao Algarve is underway.

Six riders didn't take the start today: Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), Luke Rowe (Sky), Roy Curvers (Team Sunweb), Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), Sérgio Paulinho (Efapel) and João Matias (Vito-Feirense).

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We haven't had any updates since the sprint. It seems that the peloton is still together.

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The 13-man breakaway is 1:45 up the road.

The gap is edging up – it's 2:02 now.

The first hour was really fast – 47km covered. 

Not long to go until the first climb of the day, the third category climb of Picota.

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The advantage for the break is up to three minutes now.

The gap is still rising. It's up to 3:40 now, meaning Küng is the virtual race leader.

We're well inside the final 100km of the stage now and the gap is out over four minutes.

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UAE Team Emirates are leading the peloton, defending the lead of their man Tadej Pogačar. They're three minutes down on the break.

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The break are on Malhão now – it's the first time up the climb that we'll see again at the end of the stage.

Team Sky are leading the peloton up the climb.

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The peloton has really closed in now. They're just 1:20 back.

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There are around 40 riders left in the peloton now.

CCC Team and Sky are on the front of the peloton. Amaro Antunes will be the man for CCC today.

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And now Mas has gone!

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De la Cruz seems to have dropped back from the peloton to work for Wout Poels.

Zdeněk Štybar, not Mas, is on the attack with Kragh Andersen.

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De la Cruz and Cummings are with the Kragh Andersen group now.

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Raúl Alarcón (W52-FC Porto) ups the pace. Nobody is escaping from the peloton at the moment, though.

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Tao Geoghegan Hart (Sky) tries a move too.

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The leaders are just 30 seconds up on Pogačar now! A bit of a shock given previous time gap reporting.

It looks like Pogačar might save the race win here!

Štybar leaves Kragh Andersen behind! he's struggling on these slopes.

Pogačar needs to finish within 29 seconds of Kragh Andersen here.

Zdeněk Štybar (Deceuninck-Quick Step) takes the stage win!

Kragh Andersen is second, third is Poels, fourth is Mas.

And Pogačar has saved it! He finishes within 20 seconds of Štybar to take the overall victory!

Some quotes from the overall winner Pogačar:

And from the stage winner Štybar:

Here's the top ten on the stage, as well as the top ten on GC

That's all from us today. Thanks for following along this week and for this dramatic final stage!

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