Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has opened his account at this year’s Tour de France. The Manx missile took a crash-marred bunch sprint to win Stage 5 of the 2013 Tour, a flat, 228. 5-km run from Cagnes-sur-Mer to Marseille in 5:31:51. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) took second, and Peter Sagan (Cannondale) finished third. Simon Gerrans (Orica-GreenEdge) remains the maillot jaune.

Team Omega Pharma-QuickStep's Mark Cavendish powers to victory in stage 5 of Tour de France 2013; Team GreenEdge's Simon Gerrans maintains overall Tour de France lead.

During the chaotic finish to Stage 1 of the Tour de France 2013, Ted King (Cannondale), who was riding his first Tour de France, crashed. Among other injuries, the American suffered a separated shoulder. Today, King rode Stage 4, a 25-km team time trial in Nice, using a regular road bike instead of his time trial bike because of the pain in his shoulder.

Orica-GreenEdge is the surprise winner of the 2013 Tour de France’s team time trial. The Australian squad, which furnished yesterday’s winner in the person of Simon Gerrans, powered over the flat, 25-km course in Nice in 25:56. World team time trial champion Omega Pharma-Quick Step finished second at 0:01, and Sky took third at 0:03. Gerrans is the new maillot jaune.

Team GreenEdge powers to victory in stage 4 team time trial of Tour de France 2013 ahead of Omega Pharma-QuickStep; Simon Gerrans takes overall Tour de France lead.

Orica-GreenEdge has won its first Tour de France stage. Simon Gerrans did the honors for the Australian squad, using a bike throw to pip Peter Sagan (Cannondale) and take Stage 3 of the Tour de France 2013, a hilly, 145.5-km ride from Ajaccio to Calvi, in 3:41:24. Jose Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) took third, and Jan Bakelants (RadioShack-Leopard) remains the maillot jaune.

It isn't the Tour de France unless things get a little crazy.

Team GreenEdge's Simon Gerrans sprints to victory in stage 3 of Tour de France 2013; Jan Bakelants maintains overall Tour de France lead for Team RadioShack.

Jan Bakelants (RadioShack-Leopard) has soloed to victory at the Tour de France 2013. The 27-year-old Belgian surged away from five companions in the last two km and held on to win Stage 2, a hilly, 156-km ride from Bastia to Ajaccio, Corsica in 3:43:11. Peter Sagan (Cannondale) outsprinted Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) for second at 0:01. Bakelants’s exploit has given him the yellow jersey.

Team RadioShack's Jan Bakelants soloes to victory in stage 2 of Tour de France 2013 and takes overall Tour de France lead from Team Argos-Shimano's Marcel Kittel.