Egan Bernal appeared slightly upset when he arrived at the Team Sky van following stage 5 at the Tour Colombia 2.1, where he slipped from sixth overall to ninth and lost another 43 seconds to the current race leader and is now 1:05 behind. The 22-year-old Colombian`s family was waiting for him and appeared to offer condolences as his hopes for repeating his 2018 Oro y Paz title looked quite a bit dimmer. His younger brother crying, and Bernal provided a hug and wiped away the tears from his face. But appearances can be deceiving, and all is not lost for Team Sky. Ivan Sosa made the dangerous breakaway on stage 5 and finished fifth, six seconds behind stage winner and new race leader Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep). He is currently fourth overall at 29 seconds with the final summit finish to Las Palmas remaining.ADVERTISEMENT Even with Sosa up the road, Team Sky chased furiously to keep the move in check but did not pull the escapees back before the finish. It called into question the team`s tactics and whether they put too many eggs in Sosa`s basket. `I think what we`re doing is very easy to look at from the outside and kind of just see one race and think, `OK, that`s the break, that`s your leader, and that`s how we`re going to play the day,`` Team Sky assistant director Ollie Cookson told Cyclngnews before the start of stage 6. `But as you may have seen Sky or [director Nicolas Portal) work in the past, there`s obviously parallel races at the same time. So we wanted to keep our options close for today.` Froome
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