GB's Georgi abandons Tour de France Femmes after crash

British cyclist Pfeiffer Georgi abandoned nan Tour de France Femmes aft getting caught up successful a precocious clang connected shape five, which besides caused leader Demi Vollering to gaffe down nan standings.

Georgi went down successful a wide pile-up pinch 6.3km to spell and her squad DSM-Firmenich PostNL later confirmed she will nary longer return portion successful nan Tour.

The 23-year-old competed for Team GB astatine nan Paris 2024 Olympics, finishing 5th successful nan women's roadworthy race.

She had been 45th successful nan wide classification going into shape five.

Blanka Vas of Hungary won Thursday's stage, beating Kasia Niewiadoma, Liane Lippert and Kristen Faulkner successful a precocious sprint.

Poland's Niewiadoma now tops nan wide standings, pinch Dutch rider Vollering slipping to ninth wide and losing 1 infinitesimal 47 seconds aft falling.

Vollering, a team-mate of shape victor Vas, looked to beryllium successful symptom arsenic she battled to decorativeness nan 152.5km level thrust from Bastogne to Amneville.

Niewiadoma leads American Faulkner by 19 seconds going into Friday's shape six, a 159.2km thrust betwixt Remiremont and Morteau.

1. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Pol/Canyon-SRAM) 11hrs 27mins 29secs

2. Kristen Faulkner (US/EF–Oatly–Cannondale) +19secs

3. Puck Pieterse (Ned/Fenix-Deceuninck) +22secs

4. Cedrine Kerbaol (Fra/Ceratizit-WNT) +47secs

5. Juliette Labous (Fra/DSM-Firmenich PostNL) +56secs

6. Thalita de Jong (Ned/Lotto Dstny) +1min 4secs

7. Shirin van Anrooij (Ned/Lidl–Trek) +1min 7secs

8. Pauliena Rooijakkers (Ned/Fenix-Deceuninck) +1min 8secs

9. Demi Vollering (Ned/SD Worx) +1min 19secs

10. Liane Lippert (Ger/Movistar) +1min 20secs

Selected others

37. Anna Henderson (GB/Team Visma) +5mins 24secs

57. Lizzie Deignan (GB/Lidl-Trek) +11mins 33secs

84. Lizzie Holden (GB/UAE Team ADQ) +19mins 28secs

101. Alice Towers (GB/Canyon-SRAM) +20mins 17secs

125. Becky Storrie (GB/DSM-Firmenich PostNL) +28mins 15secs