Porte taking Tour charge

BMC’S Aussie Richie Porte took the race leader’s yellow jersey off teammate Stefan Kung as Italian Diego Ulissi won yesterday’s fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse in Switzerland.

Home favourite Kung suffered over the final kilometres of the 155km stage from Gstaad to Leukerbad.

In his final race before July’s Tour de France, Porte, a two-time Paris-Nice winner, now sits atop the overall standings 20sec ahead of Sunweb’s two Dutch riders Wilco Kelderman and Sam Oomen.