Tour de France 2024: stage nine – live

07 July 2024 10:59
Stage-by-stage race guide | Full team-by-team guideGet in touch! Share your thoughts in an email to AmyTadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 31hr 21min 13secRemco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step) +33secJonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 15secPrimož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 36secJuan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) +2min 16secJoão Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +2min 17secCarlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) +2min 31secMikel Landa (Soudal-Quick-Step) +3min 35secMatteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +4min 3secAleksandr Vlasov (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +4min 36secWilliam Fotheringham on stage nine: As France goes to the polls in the second round of Macron’s snap election, on the Tour it’s a tense day of constant small climbs and 14 stretches of gravel roads through the Champagne vineyards. It will be dusty and spectacular, and there will be punctures and crashes, particularly if it rains. Pogacar will relish this, having twice won the very similar Italian Strade Bianche race; cyclo-cross specialists Van der Poel and Wout van Aert could also shine. Continue readingread full article

Source: TheGuardian