After the Mountains of yesterday, it's back to the flats today in a stage which should favour the sprinters.
2 different stage winners so far in the sprinters. Will we see a repeat winner or a new one this time around?
We have a 5 rider breakaway established as we go over the first of 2 Cat 3s. Kangert White Mottin Mendoza Oram
None of these riders have any KOM points at the moment but that doesn't mean it's not worth the fight as Kelly just takes the first ahead of Kangert.
Kangert takes the 2nd of the 2 KOMs ahead of White.
No interest in the sprint for the breakaway as they roll through together. Their focus is on the stage win. The gap with 100km of flat road remaining is at 3'08.
The same story through the 2nd intermediate sprint. No more distractions today. 65km to go and the gap has come down slightly to 2'22.
With 25km still to go, the gap is down to 1'12. It's not looking too promising for the breakaway at this point.
The breakaway finally being caught with 5km remaining. Bianchi, Le Creuset and Tryg are the 3 teams who have been doing the chasing.
3km to go and a lot more sprinters in strong positions today as opposed to the other 2 stages. Gibbons has 2 in front of him while Boivin has just the 1.
Under the kite and Gibbons still has Silva in front of him. The line of riders just off his wheel are: Boivin Dzervus Nizzolo Krieger Major Berger Moschetti Stepniak
400m and Gibbons still leads with Dzervus closest. The other sprinters in here are running out of room to succeed.
In the closing meters as Gibbons starts to celebrate but it might be too early! Krieger is moving quicker and may be able to get past!
But he runs out of road! Ryan Gibbons pays back his teams work at the front and in the sprint to deliver the stage win! Krieger has to settle for 2nd.
Dzervus takes 3rd with Berger 4th and Stepniak 5th. Nizzolo is 6th, Major 7th and Moschetti last of this group in 8th.
Molard is best of the rest in 9th with Boivin rounding out the Top 10 ahead of Silva.
No GC changes today so it's still a comfortable 32 seconds for Kuss. Stepniak maintains a 6 point lead in the Green Jersey race. Kuss and Stussi share the KOM lead. Revard leads the U25s. Jura have more than a 2 minute lead in the Teams.
Tour of Vancouver - Stage 5 Report 
