Stage Five of Tour

There was a five-man breakaway that gained 16:30 over the field, but the field got back four and a half minutes by the time the break crossed the finish line because there were strong winds keeping the peloton from going too hard.
Stuart O'Grady won the stage, but it was Thomas Voeckler (Brioches La Boulangere) that took the yellow jersey, who was fourth in the breakaway, and started the stage three minutes down on Lance, by more than nine and a half minutes. (Armstrong is not concerned about him, and will not fight to get the jersey back too soon.) It was another raining day, and there was a mass pile-up half-way through the stage, which took down three of Lance's teamates, two sprinters, Alessandro Pettachi and Robbie McEwen, Bradley McGee, and Roberto Heras, a rival of Lance, but Lance himself was not hurt.

Top: you can see that the wind was quite fierce in the picture here because of how the riders are all single-file across the road; bottom right: Portugal's Jose Acevedo, and the Spanish trio of Jose Luis Rubiera, Manuel Beltran and Benjamin Noval go down in a crash, bottom left: the new yellow jersey.