"I have no explanation," Visma DS, Grischa Niermann, said at the finish. "Before the time trial everything was good, there were no problems, but in the time trial he’s not able to talk to me, and I'm only able to talk to him.

The defending Tour champion sped back into the yellow jersey in the stage 5 time trial, the 91st of his career, limiting his losses to stage winner, world and Olympic time trial champion Remco Evenepoel. Unexpectedly, he made huge gains on his great rival, Jonas Vingegaard, gaining 65 seconds.

Follow live text updates of Stage five of Tour de France from Caen. After four eventful days, we have hit the first individual time trial in this year's Tour de France. The race of truth is the first big opportunity for the general classification riders to lay down a marker so this should be intriguiing viewing.