As part of the BBC’s coverage of the Tour de France, 5 Live’s Peter Slater is commentating live on the final 90 minutes of each stage of the Tour on the BBC Sport website.

Here, he reflects on Mark Cavendish’s brilliant sprint win in Chatearoux.

I said this time last week that what I hoped for more than anything else on this Tour de France was to call Mark Cavendish home as a stage winner.

Sure enough, on a perfect Wednesday summer’s evening in Chateauroux, all the hype and expectation was fulfilled. On a long, wide straight into the finish, Cav answered those who felt he was becoming a little too big for his cycling shoes .

He out-sprinted Thor Hushovd, Erik Zabel and Oscar Freire to join that very elite list of British stage winners in Le Tour.

Some of you here on 606 have been telling us that you didn't think he had the nous to beat those more experienced than him. I was wondering that myself before Stage 5. Hushovd had won in St Brieuc, the peloton had screwed up on the road to Nantes, and Nicolas Vogondy looked for a while as if he might hold them off this time.

But Team Columbia led Cav out, and The Cannonball did the rest.

The previous evening I'd been in a square in Angers listening to an open-air symphony concert. The encore was a rousing rendition of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March Number 2. I stood there on my own singing "Land Of Hope And Glory," mystifying the locals around me. I felt like doing the same once Cavendish crossed the line in Chateauroux.

It’s so much more satisfying when a British sportsman wins abroad, and all the other foreign broadcasters were quick to congratulate us. We bask in his glory.

So now that’s out of the way, a word for David Millar. High up on GC, maybe favourite to win in Super Besse and take yellow. My question: after five stages, who of the two is the British star of this year’s Tour? Cav will grab the headlines for now, but Millar is riding an exemplary race, and he's trying to make sure Cav looks after himself.

So who is your star British rider after five stages? It’s pretty well bound to be the Isle of Man flyer, but don’t underestimate David Millar’s achievement.