Video: Froome gives stranded Bernal a front carry at Catalunya

When Team Sky said Chris Froome was going to be working for Egan Bernal at Volta a Catalunya neither realised just how far the four-time Tour winner would have to go for the young Colombian.

Dan Martin has retained his 5th place overall at Volta a
Catalunya after stage 5 on Friday failed to bring about any re-ordering of the
general classification.

The stage was won from a breakaway by Bora-hansgrohe's
Max Schachmann; the German holding off the reduced peloton.

He was claiming his second win of the year after taking
GP Industria & Artigianato (1.HC) in Italy earlier this month.

Schachmann spent the day in a four-man breakaway on the
188km stage to Sant Cugat del Vallès. But he managed to get clear of them on
the penultimate uncategorised climb.

Stage 2 winner
Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb)
claimed the sprint for 2nd place at 13 seconds.

And though a
two-second gap emerged behind Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Merida) in 6th it wasn’t enough to impact on the
general standings.

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Yesterday’s
winner Miguel Ángel López (Astana)
still leads overall, with two stages to come, by 14 seconds from Adam Yates
(Mitchelton-Scott).

Egan Bernal (Team
Sky) is next, another three seconds back. Dan Martin (UAE Team Emirates) is 5th
at 46 seconds.

Saturday’s stage
6 is undulating but features just two cat 3 climbs before the race concludes on
a very lumpy circuit in Barcelona on Sunday.

Bernal was forced
to walk over the line today when he suffered a late mechanical that completely
disabled his bike.

Team mate Chris
Froome then stuck the young Colombian on his handlebars and gave him a front
carry back to the team bus in what were comical scenes.

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However, because Bernal’s bike problems occurred well within 3km to go, he lost not time in the general classification.

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