Nizzolo takes surprise win in Eneco Tour stage five

Sprint, Eneco Tour 2012, stage five

In spite of the best efforts of a three rider 'suicide' break of the day - which went after only two kilometres - stage five of the 2012 Eneco Tour ended in a bunch sprint in Aalter, having started the day in Hoogerheide in Holland. And in spite of the best efforts of the organisers to come up with a route which flirted with the North Sea, the flags hung limply and the potential crosswind-generated carnage never materialised.

Instead there was blazing sun and 25 degrees and Dimitri Muravyev (Astana), Mickael Delage (FDJ), Laurens De Vreese (Topsport Vlaanderen) and Sjef De Wilde (Accent Jobs-Willems Veranda's) were left to broil. They worked away, got a load of television time and a not very encouraging 5-30 minute maximum lead after only 50 kilometres, at which point you would have thought they would just have sat up, since the job was clearly doomed.

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