It should be a day for the sprinters and with Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) out, it could be down to a British showdown between Ethan Vernon (Israel-Premier Tech) and Matthew Brennan (Visma-Lease a Bike), with Pavel Bittner (Picnic-PostNL) and others having a go.

There is some debate on what the length of today’s stage is with some saying as little as 165.8km and others going as far as 172km. The road book says that the race is taking place between Paüls and Amposta over 172km, so we are going with that.

Hello and welcome to CyclingNews’ live report of stage five at the Volta a Catalunya 2025.

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