Eddie Dunbar digs deep as Pogacar, Yates turn the screw on Jebel Hafeet

Adam Yates, leading, and Tadej Pogacar took turns at attacking the select group all the way up the final climb. While Alexey Lutsenko thought he had won, Pogacar pipped him on the line

Eddie Dunbar slipped out of the top 10
overall at UAE Tour after the Irish rider finished 13th but lost time on today’s
stage 5.

The race returned to the 10.8km Jebel Hafeet climb where the strongest men in the field, Tadej Pogacar and Adam Yates, rode a very aggressive finale to the summit finish.

Dunbar remained in the front group on the lower slopes but when race leader, and stage 3 winner, Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) and Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) began their battle, that front group split to pieces.

In the end, the stop-start racing of Yates and Pogacar saw them pull clear of a handful of other riders only to see the men they dropped claw their way back on.

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However, Eddie Dunbar (Team Ineos) was not close enough to Yates and Pogacar to get back to them at any point.

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The Irish cyclist finished in 13th place, some 48 seconds down on the front group of riders. That resulted in Dunbar slipping from 10th overall to 11th, some 2:58 down on leader Yates.

At the finish today Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) and Ilnur Zakarin (CCC Team) were with Yates and Pogacar.

Lutsenko really attacked the technical
finish and on the line he believed he had done enough to win the stage.

However, just as he raised his hand to
begin celebrating Pogacar lunged for the line and pipped him to win, with Yates
in 3rd place.

The final two stages of the race,
tomorrow and Saturday, should suit the fast men and may see Sam Bennett
(Deceuninck-QuickStep) take a victory.

Result: Stage 5 UAE Tour

  1. Tadej POGACAR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 3:48:53
  2. Alexey LUTSENKO ASTANA PRO TEAM
  3. Adam YATES MITCHELTON-SCOTT
  4. David GAUDU GROUPAMA-FDJ 0:04
  5. Ilnur ZAKARIN CCC TEAM 0:07
  6. Davide FORMOLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 0:23
  7. Alejandro VALVERDE MOVISTAR TEAM
  8. Wilco KELDERMAN TEAM SUNWEB 0:24
  9. Victor DE LA PARTE CCC TEAM
  10. Rafal MAJKA BORA-HANSGROHE 0:27
  11. Diego ULISSI UAE TEAM EMIRATES 0:37
  12. Geoffrey BOUCHARD AG2R LA MONDIALE 0:47
  13. Edward DUNBAR TEAM INEOS 0:48
  14. James KNOX DECEUNINCK-QUICK-STEP 1:04
  15. Wouter POELS BAHRAIN-MCLAREN1:09
  16. Victor CAMPENAERTS NTT PRO CYCLING TEAM
  17. Jai HINDLEY TEAM SUNWEB
  18. Patrick KONRAD BORA-HANSGROHE
  19. Gianluca BRAMBILLA TREK-SEGAFREDO
  20. Niklas EG TREK-SEGAFREDO
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