Dislocated shoulder for Roglič, bike swap musical chairs and yet Van Aert is still in yellow: Jumbo Visma’s big day on the cobbles

Vingegaard ended up losing just 13 seconds to Pogačar but team had a dramatic time

Jumbo-Visma
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There were ten to fifteen minutes of chaos on Wednesday's Tour de France stage, the kind of chaos that only action on the cobbles can provide. If it was hard for viewers to work out what was going on, imagine the difficulty for those actually riding stage five.

The panic that set in the Jumbo-Visma team when Jonas Vingegaard had a mechanical issue with his bike is a perfect example of this. It might have looked comical to the onlooker, but the terror that seemed to set in for the Dutch team's riders was palpable.

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