“I think I should have some stitches in it right away, but I’m not in pain,” she said to the NOS. ,,I do not know what happened. There were a lot of riders on the ground at once and I had no choice but to drive straight into them. It wasn’t going fast at that moment, everyone was relaxing for a while. It was a boring race and then suddenly they are there. It’s a bit of concentration.”
Emma Norsgaard seems to be the biggest victim of the crash. The Danish from Movistar, an important support of Annemiek van Vleuten, was taken to a hospital in an ambulance with a shoulder injury.
The fifth stage was won by Lorena Wiebes. She also won the opening stage over, among other things, the Champs-Élysées in Paris.