As it happened: Red jersey changes hands in Vuelta a España stage 5 team time trial

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Israel-Premier Tech's Vuelta a España team time trial effort disrupted by protestors

Israeli-based squad held up briefly by pro-Palestine protestors and finish 19th

Here are the results of stage 5.

Vuelta a España stage 5: UAE Team Emirates-XRG delivers commanding team time trial victory while Jonas Vingegaard slips back into leader's jersey

Visma-Lease a Bike edges Lidl-Trek by one second for second-best performance in race against the clock

Vingegaard is back in red with an eight-second lead over Ayuso. Almeida and Soler are in third and fourth, also eight seconds down. Giulio Ciccone is next in fifth at nine seconds down.

Groupama-FDJ come to the finish with a time of 25:50 in ninth place, 24 seconds down on stage winners UAE Team Emirates-XRG.

They had to dodge the police motos heading under the flamme rouge. It looks like the police were stopping another protester.

The French squad with four riders as they hit the final kilometre.

Just Groupama-FDJ left to finish now. It looks like Jonas Vingegaard will be back in the red jersey.

Visma improve on the run to the line. They finish at eight seconds down on UAE and slot into second place having been 10th at the second checkpoint!

17:57 for Groupama-FDJ at the second checkpoint. They're 27 seconds down there.

UAE set the quickest time! They go nine seconds up on Lidl-Trek with a speed of 56.845kph.

Ayuso leads them in.

Down to four now and Marc Soler is battling to stay in touch on the final run to the line.

UAE have five riders for the final 2km now.

QuickStep and Astana come to the finish in 14th and 19th places.

Visma-Lease A Bike only 10th at the second checkpoint. They're 18 seconds off Lidl-Trek.

UAE are five seconds down on Lidl-Trek at the second checkpoint.

Groupama-FDJ are fifth at the first checkpoint. They're six seconds off the lead and four off Visma.

Five teams left to finish.

Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe fall just three seconds short of Lidl-Trek's time at the finish. They slot into second place.

Visma-Lease A Bike three seconds down on Ineos and UAE at the first checkpoint.

Israel-Premier Tech come home in 14th place, 45 seconds down.

Second place for UAE at the first checkpoint. 7:56 and they're just one-hundredth of a second down on Ineos Grenadiers there.

Groupama-FDJ are starting now. They defend the red jersey of David Gaudu today.

They're down to fifth at the second checkpoint with a time of 17:41.

Matteo Sobrero hits the deck for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe after a touch of wheels at the front of the line.

Visma-Lease A Bike start now. Groupama-FDJ next as the last team.

Red Bull with a time of 8:01 at the first check, second quickest so far. QuickStep at 8:14.

They don't displace Lidl-Trek but do come in second place, six seconds down.

Ineos Grenadiers coming to the line now...

Juan Ayuso in the white jersey leads them off.

UAE Team Emirates-XRG are starting their ride now.

Ineos Grenadiers have Ganna, Bernal, Kwiatkowski, and Turner left for the final 3km.

Decathlon AG2R go into third place, just a couple of tenths down on Movistar.

Israel-Premier Tech last at the first checkpoint after losing time due to the protesters.

XDS-Astana now setting off. Just three to go after them.

Movistar now come to the line and they're in second place, eight seconds off Lidl-Trek.

Decathlon AG2R, meanwhile, lost 10 seconds on Lidl-Trek at the second checkpoint.

Ineos Grenadiers drop to second at the second checkpoint. They're a second down on Lidl-Trek there.

Soudal-QuickStep are next off, following on from Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe.

The riders all slowed down almost to a stop but picked their way through and got going again.

Israel-Premier Tech have been blocked out on course by a pair of protesters.

A new quickest time at the first checkpoint!

Ineos Grenadiers have put in a time of 7:56 and an average speed of 58.874kph.

Burgos-Burpellet-BH the slowest team so far. They come home 1:35 down on Lidl-Trek with an average speed of 53.323kph.

Decathlon AG2R second at the first check, just fractions of a second slower at 8:06.

EF come to the line in fifth place, 30 seconds down on Lidl-Trek.

Out on the course, EF have gone fifth at the second checkpoint, while Movistar have gone fourth at the first one.

Decathlon AG2R have set off and now it's Ineos Grenadiers down the ramp. Bahrain Victorious are up next.

Q36.5 with a very good time, too. They've just crossed the finish line in second place, 10 seconds off Lidl-Trek.

Arkéa-B&B Hotels with a good time at the first checkpoint. They're fourth at 8:17.

25:35 for Lidl-Trek at the finish, 18 seconds up on Lotto and the quickest time of the seven teams who have finished so far.

Lidl-Trek flying towards the finish line now.

Caja Rural and Movistar and now setting off.

Carlos Verona was the man who went down for Lidl-Trek.

Lidl-Trek out on course.

Right after the checkpoint, a Lidl-Trek rider overshoots a corner and goes down. He managed to slow down before hitting the barrier so the collision wasn't too hard.

Lidl-Trek head through the second checkpoint still in top spot. They're 13 seconds up on Lotto.

Q36.5 second quickest at the first checkpoint, four seconds off Lidl-Trek and 13 up on Lotto.

Burgos and Arkéa the latest teams to head out. Lotto remain in the hot seats as the quickest team.

Picnic are the third team home but well outside Lotto's time at 26 seconds down.

Lidl-Trek now quickest at the first check. 8:06 for them, so eight seconds up on Jayco-AlUla.

Their average speed so far is 57.752kph.

15 seconds down for Alpecin as they finish in second place.

Lotto and Alpecin have come to the finish with four riders.

Q36.5 and EF are next off as Alpecin-Deceuninck come to the finish.

Jayco-AlUla have put nine seconds into Lotto at the first checkpoint.

25:53 for Lotto at an average speed of 55.972kph.

The Belgian team are into the final kilometre now.

Lotto still the quickest at the first check after five teams have passed through. Cofidis second quickest.

56.206kph for Lotto at the second checkpoint. Their time is 17:43.

Jayco-AlUla now begin their ride. Lidl-Trek, one of the favourites, are up next.

Picnic-PostNL are a further second adrift with a time of 8:32.

Cofidis set off next. Alpecin-Deceuninck have gone eight seconds slower than Lotto at the first checkpoint.

Lotto now down a rider as Arjen Livyns drops back.

Intermarché-Wanty now setting off.

Lotto have passed through the first checkpoint at 7.8km with a time of 8:23 and an average speed of 55.760kph.

Picnic-PostNL now setting off as the third team to start.

Times will be taken on the fourth rider to finish for each team today.

Alpecin-Deceuninck are second down the start ramp.

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And they're off!

Lotto are on the start line now and about to get underway.

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10 minutes to the start!

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Here's a look at the current GC standings after stage 4.

Just over half an hour to go until the stage begins with Lotto.

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 5!

Here's a look at the profile of today's stage. All flat.