2022 Tour de Romandie – stage 5 preview

Stage 4 didn’t show us the expected fight. The weather was better than expected, and the leaders mostly watched each other.

Only Ion Izagirre, who was significantly behind in the general classification, took risks by participating in the big breakaway of the day. Finally the favorites arrived grouped, and Sergio Higuita narrowly won over his teammate Aleksandr Vlasov, grabbing a few bonus seconds at the same time.

Let’s hope for the two teammates that it won’t be missing seconds for a possible final victory in the general classification.

STAGE 5

A mouth-watering ending time trial of 15.84 km which will not necessarily benefit a time triallist with a 10km of climbing at an average of 8.1%.

Weather

Sunny until noon, becoming cloudy, but probably no rain.

Predictions

Of course it’s a TT stage, but it’s a climbing one, and the motivated riders are those battling for top classification.

Rohann Dennis has never been in difficulty since the start of the event, he is a specialist in solo effort, and he starts last.

Aleksandr Vlasov will do his best but probably no better than Dennis.

Luke Plapp, a good climber, a good time trial specialist, can perform very well.

Ethan Hayter has the qualities to make a good place.

Juan Ayuso will give his all to hope to stay in the top 5.