• 2009 champion back in yellow jersey after finishing second on stage five
• Team Sky’s Wout Poels wins challenging stage in PenninesIt is six years since Edvald Boasson Hagen wiped the floor at this race,winning the overall standings and four stages, and the Norwegian turned the clock back a itsy-bitsy when he ended up in the yellow jersey by a single second after the toughest stage of this year’s event. He was overhauled for the stage win high up in the Pennines by Team Sky’s Wout Poels but fought tough to stay within a few metres of the Dutchman and was duly rewarded.
The pair fought out a slow-motion finish on the exposed final kilometres through the moorlands on the spine of England, or with Poels attacking repeatedly as the peloton was whittled down remorselessly by the gradient and a stiff breeze. Poels – who played a key role in Chris Froome’s Tour de France win in July – had the acceleration to get absent each time but Boasson Hagen pegged him back before finally going clear just before the kilometre-to-travel board.
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Source: theguardian.com