Spain's ONCE team start stage five back in their pink attire after yesterday's second-place performance in the team time trial

Yellow-jersey holder Victor Hugo Pena (right) looks relaxed as he starts stage five alongside Telekom's Santiago Botero

The peloton passes through Coussegrey during the 196km Troyes to Nevers stage as the riders jostle for position at the front

American Tyler Hamilton (left) rides free of the collar bone strapping he's had to wear since being injured during stage one

Pena protects team leader and Tour favourite Lance Armstrong who sits only one second behind his US Postal team-mate

The peloton reach the summit of the Cote de Tonnerre after 52km, but are two minutes adrift of a five-man breakaway pack

The breakaway pack comprises of Nicolas Jalabert, Jens Voigt, Laszlo Bodrogdi, Frederic Finot and Ludovic Turpin

But the peloton stay in the hunt and rejoin the leading five with 22km to go to set up the traditional sprint finish

It's Alessandro Petacchi who launches a brilliantly timed attack to take his third stage win of the Tour

Pena retains the overall lead and the yellow jersey in an apt celebration for his 29th birthday

Australia's Robbie McEwen dons the green jersey after taking the lead in the points standings