Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: Wout Van Aert Answers Doubts with Commanding Stage 5 Victory
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Taking three heavy uppercuts, getting back up fighting and... still winning (a lap)? Only the very greatest can do that. In this case: Wout van Aert (31). Day five of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes was his. Relief! But even now: not a shred of euphoria. There is still work to be done, he realizes. And there is also that other worry. “Something to keep an eye on, though. Hopefully it will evolve in a favourable way.”
The Belgian Wout Van Aert won in the sprint the fifth stage of the Tour d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ex-Dauphiné), on Thursday in Villars-les-Dombes. Alex Baudin keeps the yellow jersey.
Belgian bike star Wout van Aert won the fifth stage of the Tour Auvergne Rhone-Alpes, defeating the strong German sprinter Phil Bauhaus.
Montreal, 11 June 2026 (Sportcom) – After having missed the train of the breakaway in Wednesday's stage by a little, Hugo Houle (Alpecin – Premier Tech) managed his shot on Thursday at the fifth stage of the Tour Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes. But unfortunately for him, the sprinters' teams were determined not to be played the same time as the previous day when the peloton had not been able to return to the fugitives by a few seconds. Quebecer finished…
Bauhaus Sprints to Third Place on Stage 5 of the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes - Team Bahrain Victorious
Bahrain Victorious secured another podium finish at the Tour Auvergne–Rhône-Alpes as Phil Bauhaus sprinted to third place on Stage 5 (Saint-Chamond – Parc des Oiseaux Villars-les-Dombes, 195.8 km), behind stage winner Wout van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike) and Hugo Hofstetter (NSN Cycling Team). After several days dominated by successful breakaways, Stage 5 finally...
Van Aert faster than everyone else, Baudin always in yellow. Thibault Guernalec's last honor baroud, accompanied in his Felix Engelhardt wheel, did not give anything, if it is to definitely blow up a Hugo Houle anyway already at the edge of the break.

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