Hello and welcome to live coverage of Stage 5 of the Tour de France - a 160.5km ride from Vittel to La Planche des Belles Filles. It's the first mountaintop finish of the Tour as the race enters the Vosges mountains for what should be an explosive finale and what was - frankly - a pretty uneventful finale yesterday in Vittel...

Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) have joined this break - as has Luke Rowe (Team Sky) and a BMC rider. A frantic start in north-east France.

There's an attack from the outset from French veteran Thomas Voeckler of Direct Energie, who is joined by birthday boy Philippe Gilbert (Quick-Step Floors) and Jan Bakelants (Ag2R-La Mondiale).

They're off! Race director Christian Prudhomme waves the flag and this first mountaintop finish stage is under way.

Right, on to today's stage - and here is what the riders have on the menu...

And despite a protest from Sagan and his Bora-Hansgrohe team, the race jury upheld their decision to kick the world champion off the race...

Dimension Data sprint Cavendish was forced to withdraw from the race following his crash after tests showed that he had broken his shoulder.

Yesterday, Arnaud Demare won a chaotic sprint in Stage 4 as Mark Cavendish suffered a nasty crash following a collision with world champion Peter Sagan, who was later disqualified from the race. Geraint Thomas also hit the deck in an earlier pile-up but retained the yellow jersey. So, yeah, as we said, it was fairly uneventful...