The Giant-Alpecin rider claims the first Tour de France stage of his career with a valiant charge up to Arcals in hammering rain and hail. In the drop the advantage grows to 2 minutes before it goes down to 1 minute again in the valley, because Sky is chasing Valverde. Doable, for sure, but two climbs at around 20 kilometres is not for the faint of heart. Froome quickly closes the gap. | The Tour will return to the mountains on Thursday, as the iconic Mont Ventoux will play host to the riders on Bastille Day. | Thank you for reading 5 articles in the past 30 days*, Enjoy your first month for just 1 / $1 / 1, *Read any 5 articles for free in each 30-day period, this automatically resets, After your trial you will be billed 4.99 $7.99 5.99 per month, cancel anytime. Who's going to win? Tour de France 2016: Stage 9 Results | Cyclingnews Martin attacks! Or sign up for one year for just 49 $79 59, Try your first month for just 1 / $1 / 1. Dumoulin launched an attack shortly before the start of the final climb, building a lead of 30 seconds before hitting the slopes of Andorra Arcalis. 2016 Tour de France - Wikipedia The Colombian is high up on GC and is a good card for Sky. Chris Froome of Team Sky kept hold of the yellow jersey, as the favourites mostly stayed together ahead of the first rest day. Rui Costa finishes in second, Rafal Majka in third. 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Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) continued Jumbo-Visma's domination with a striking solo win on stage 19 of the 2022 Tour de France. Just made it to finish. Valverde and Henao are both well-placed on GC and it looks like Movistar and Sky are content to play the long game. BA1 1UA. Back in the peloton, the ailing Contador decided to test himself with an attack. Bardet, Mollema, Meintjes, Henao, Rodriguez the next mini group on the road. With the finish line at an elevation of 2,240 metres this must be a top finish! After Sagan had breezed through the intermediate sprint with barely a challenge to his quest to take maximum points and cut Cavendish's lead in the green jersey competition to just seven points, IAM's Coppel attacked on the early slopes of the second-category Comella, Lampre's Grmay bridging up to join him. Stannard has also made it over that climb and so, a quarter of the way into this mountain stage, Sky still have their flat domestiques in attendance. 45km covered. We'll be climbing from the off here, and that means many riders have been on the rollers and turbos this morning to get the heart rate up. It was the first blow that ultimately led to his second Tour de France win. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) finally gained time on Tadej Pogaar (UAE Team Emirates) and extended his lead at the 2023 Tour de France with a dominant, victorious ride in the 22.4km time trial . En route four more cols lay waiting Once the flag is dropped Port de la Bonaigua looms, a 19 kilometres climb at 5% that will detonate the fireworks. That's Mark Cavendish's leadout man. He just loses his balance at the side of the road, the bidons go everywhere, and he looks thoroughly cheesed off. It's partly cloudy with 0% chance of rain. Brilliant attacking by Martin but Froome is relentless. While we wait for the real fireworks, here's our analysis of how yesterday's shaped the GC complexion. Valverde and Contador were part of a 25-man group that broke early, a group that also included Tinkoff's Peter Sagan, but as soon as the Slovak put in a shift at the front of the group, the former Tour winner was dropped. It's Diego Rosa from Astana - not Sanchez - and it's the Italian who leads the way as they near the top of this climb. Brutal conditions. Either he's cooked after yesterday or he's very smart. 20. We'll get you the names of everyone in that big breakaway group shortly. A much less arduous day out for the Manxman today. Tom Dumoulin (nld) 2. Barguil is toiling but still has the back of the bunch in his sights. A sad end. Pinot was in close attendance too, and came by to take the KoM points at the summit of the Beixalis. We'll have all the fall-out from Contador's withdrawal shortly. Tour de France race hub on Cyclingnews Stage 9 preview Start. Dubbed 'the race of truth', there is . 5km remaining: Dumoulins lead is timed at around 40sec from Majka and Costa. It's Dan Martin to races to shut it down, and Froome just sits on the Irishman's wheel. Contador is still back at his team car, talking with the DS's. The stage win is within grasp - will Pinot salvage his Tour? A long way to go but he has nearly a minute now. De Gendt and Pinot now attack. When he attacked we were surprised and then he started coming back. Let us know your thoughts - on that or anything else - via Twitter @paddyfletch. Tour de France: Vingegaard removes all doubt, crushes Pogacar in stage Hopefully he'll bounce back for the #olympics! 2016 Tour de France, stage 9 - Wikidata Sky are carrying out a big selection process here and the bunch has pretty much halved. Thats all from me, thanks for reading. Andorra is home to a number of pros, including Joaquim Rodrguez, Dan Martin, and Simon Gerrans, so these climbs will be familiar to some. What a ride this is from Yates, the most inexperienced rider in there. The break passed into Andorra with a lead of almost 10 minutes, as Sagan grabbed the top spot in the intermediate sprint to close the gap to Dimension Data's Mark Cavendish in the points classification to just seven points. | Tour de France 2016: Route and stages - Cyclingstage.com 10 riders in there now. All rights reserved. Porte goes! In Andorra Sagan takes the intermediate sprint and a moment later the leaders hit the Cte de la Comella with a lead at over 10 minutes. Tour de France 2016 : Stage 9 As It Happened | Cyclingnews Col dEl Canto is 19.3 kilometres at 5.4%. Language Label Description Also known as; English: 2016 Tour de France, stage 9. This pic from French TV pundit Cedric Vasseur. Imanol Erviti takes a rather embarrassing tumble as he tries to carry a full jersey of bidons up through the bunch. De Gendt strikes out once more but, again, Pinot comes back at him. Saw a couple of Irish too #TDF2016. It soon became clear, though, that Contador was suffering. A soggy Chris Froome finishes stage 9 at the Tour de France with his overall lead intact. In the peloton Henao, Froome, Porte, Mollema and Danie Martin attack one after the other until the eilte group is down to only five men: Adam Yates, Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana, Richie Porte and Daniel Martin. The leaders are around 8min clear of the yellow-jersey group, who wont be too concerned by the names up ahead. Pinot and Majka go toe-to-toe as the breakaway group has blown to pieces. The riders have just rolled out of the start town. | Chris Froome (gbr) s.t. Was looking forward to him livening things up at Ventoux! Majka and Costa sprint to the line. The Winners of the 2016 Tour de France In a stellar performance, Team Sky's Chris Froome finished Stage 21 as the winner of the 2016 Tour de France by whit yost Published: Jul 24, 2016 Save. Majka, in the polka dots, thinks about it but he doesn't really have the goods when De Gendt winds it up. Predictably, the lead group has really started to break up on this climb. He is closing in on a wonderful victory in these treacherous conditions. Tour de France 2016: Tom Dumoulin wins stage nine - The Guardian It looks like they might have settled on a truce as they ride through the most torrential rain. Quintana has set up shop, it seems, for most of the day. The latest king of the mountains standings after Pinots chug to the summit: Thibaut Pinot 60 points Rafal Majka 45 Thomas De Gendt 36. They breakaway riders start to attack each other as they come to the end of the descent. Stage 9 in the Tour de France travels over four harsh cols to finish atop an hors category climb in Andorra. Diego Rosa, 4 pts 5. Approaching the final climb, the 10 leaders attacked each other again and again until, with 12km remaining, Dumoulin took advantage of a flatter section to power away, leaving his frustrated former companions to gesture at each other as all attempts at collaboration failed. New Zealander Bennett made three attempts to go clear, only to be chased down by Rosa on each occasion. That stage . "It was an incredible day. | Alejandro Valverde (spa) + 1.01, 11. We're nearing the top of the climb and thoughts turn to the KOM points. Prediction: Contador abandons in feed zone where there are team cars taking him straight to the hotel #TDF. Per Patrick Fletcher of Cycling News, team owner Oleg Tinkov wasn't surprised to see his team leader drop out of the race: It was not a surprise to me, because I am in the team and we knew that Alberto [Contador] was not doing well. Tour de France 2016 Stage 21 results - ProCyclingStats.com The first three riders on the line take time bonuses at 10, 6 and 4 seconds. Although Contador went on the attack on the first climb, he soon fell back to the bunch and consulted with his managers several times before deciding to quit. Sky really turned up the pace towards the top of that climb and they are less than 1 minute in arrears now as we begin this swooping descent. Mollema comes to the front of the lead group now as things regroup. As well as Valverde, Winner Anacona, Jess Herrada and the Izagirre brothers had also made it into the move, along with Astana's Diego Rosa and Luis Len Snchez, Tinkoff's Rafal Majka and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff), Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R-LaMondiale), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo), IAM trio Mathias Frank, Stef Clement and Jrme Coppel (IAM), Natnael Berhane (Dimension Data), Dumoulin, Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), Lampre duo Rui Costa and Tsgabu Grmay, Lotto-Soudal's Tony Gallopin and Thomas De Gendt, and Dani Navarro and Nicolas Edet from Cofidis. The Tinkoff team car pulls over, Contador climbs off his bike, waves to the TV cameras, and climbs in. He has Nibali with him. Alexander Kristoff climbs in the mountains during stage 9 at the Tour de France, Fabio Aru in action during stage 9 of the Tour de France, Alberto Contador looked chipper at the start of stage 9, Nairo Quintana gets some last-minute prep on his rear wheel before the start of stage 9, Another tough day in the Pyrenees for the 2016 peloton. Sky grind it out on the front of the bunch and it looks like they're going to catch him. Three climbs remaining on today's stage and this is what the remainder of the stage looks like. Stannard leads the strung-out peloton and brings the gap to the break down to less than a minue. Stage 16 report: Jonas Vingegaard deflated the hopes of Tadej Pogacar with a devastating performance in the 22.4km race of truth from Passy to Combloux to extend his overall lead in the Tour de . With under 60km to go they certainly have a chance, and much will depend on how the GC teams race the penultimate climb. having seen how Pinot faded yesterday, Majka probably figured he could save his energy for KoMs later in the stage, @petercossins Sun, 10th Jul 2016 10:48:51. Martin, Froome, Quintana, Porte, Yates. Pinot makes a late surge and hits the front in time to take maximum KOM points, extending his virtual lead in the standings. He is going to try and see this out like an uphill time trial, and looks in good shape to do exactly that. Adam Yates still in there as this group comes back together. Once again it is De Gendt taking most KOM-point at the top. Cyclingnews is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Majka and Navarro have broken 10sec clear and George Bennett bridges the gap. Grmay and Coppel have a small lead over the rest of the break as they near the top of this second-category climb. 10 minutes now for the break and it looks increasingly like our stage winner will come from that group. Jonas Vingegaard took a huge leap towards clinching a second Tour de France triumph in as many years with a barnstorming performance in the individual time trial on Stage 16. Majka, who's wearing the polka-dots, is still in there but unable or unwilling to sprint for the points. Thank you for signing up to The Pick. The Race: 197 riders started at 12:04 PM for what is the 2016 Tour's Queen Stage with five monster climbs and a hilltop finish. Bath Tour de France 2016 Favourites stage 9: Take your pick from the Big Two The climb was a relative unknown for the peloton but carried a fierce reputation for being absurdly steep and twisty, per the Guardian's William Fotheringham: 2nd last climb, Beixalis has some of the tightest, steepest hairpins I've ever seen. Van Garderen is with that aforementioned second group and they're a good 15 seconds behind the Froome group. At the front, Valverde had a long talk with his team car before deciding to sit up straight and fall back into the peloton, and Sky responded by dropping their pace and handing the leading group a big advantage. Adam Yates is showing maturity beyond his years at this Tour. Contador has Robert Kiserlovski moving this along for him. Pinot comes home now but we're more concerned with the GC group than the breakaway remnants, who are filing across the line. The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! That's an ideal opportunity for Sagan to steal some points back on Cavendish, and the world champion's ability to get himself in the break on a day such as this demonstrates why he is so well suited to the points classification. This isn't looking too good for Contador. Heres how it works. It's looking good for him. Bloody hell. Adam Yates (gbr) + 6.35. We've rounded some of the instant reactions into one handy place: Tour de France stage 9 finish line quotes, Another yellow jersey for Chris Froome - the 32nd of his career, And with that, we earn the first rest day of the Tour de France. When he attacked we were surprised and then he started coming back. Dumoulin attacks, the rouleur using the gentler gradients ahead of the final climb to pull out a sizeable advantage. For the favourites, the dream scenario was that of a long, early break taking a huge lead, allowing the top riders to take their time getting organised. Chris Froome retains in the overall lead. Another memorable outing in the Pyrenees. Porte is back on terms, with Dan Martin looking impressive too. Especially because we still have three monsters ahead of us. Pinot does, however, and the Frenchman launches a fearsome sprint to come around the Belgian. On paper, it's better for Nairo today than it was yesterday. Until Henao lit things up it looked like it would be stalemate within the yellow jersey group. Summary - Stage 9 (Vielha Val d'Aran / Andorre Arcalis) - Tour de I'll think I'll have a pretty excited cheer squad today. After a gentle and short drop and a false flat comes Col de Beixalis a 6.4 kilometres climb at 8.5%. Andorra has a history in the Tour and this final climb to Arcalis has featured twice in the past. So 10 riders lead they way and it looks as if they will contest the stage victory. The riders will be out for just a quick spin tomorrow but racing will resume one Tuesday and this is what's in store. L'Isle-Jourdain - Lac de Payolle, 184.5km Is that a stage-winning margin? The sight of riders warming up on the rollers before a mountain stage always suggests a fast start is imminent, and the initial kilometres up the first-category Port de la Bonaigua fully lived up to that. Purito' will be willing to do well today. The break's gap was up to 6:30. First things first, let's have a look at the stage profile. Tinkoff's Rafal Majka eventually went after Dumoulin on his own, but with five kilometers left to race, he still chased the leader by more than 40 seconds. Bourg-Saint-Andol - La Caverne du Pont-d'Arc (ITT), 208.5km The breakaway group has split up on the climb and Contador and Valverde have just made it through and up to the lead section. Tour de France 2016 Stage 9 results - ProCyclingStats.com #TDF2016. Astana's Fabio Aru was dropped, one of many favourites to struggle, while Trek-Segafredo's Bauke Mollema and BMC Racing's Richie Porte traded blows, dropping Valverde as well. Tour de France: Cavendish struggles through the Pyrenees, Tour de France stage 9 finish line quotes, Froome survives hailstorm of attacks to keep Tour de France lead, Tour de France: Tinkoff focuses on new goals after losing Contador, Tour de France: Yates takes it to the favourites in Andorra, Tour de France: Aru stays upbeat despite losing a minute, Tour de France: Porte gains time as van Garderen struggles in Andorra, Dan Martin: I'm not a Tour de France contender, Tour de France: George Bennett earns Cyclingnews Rider of the Day honours, On-board video highlights of Tour de France stage 9 - Video. Expecting Froome to weaken in 3rd week? #TDF2016. Sunday, July 10, 2016 At 184.5 kilometres, stage 9 of the Tour France takes the riders from Vielha, Spain, to Arcalis, Andorra. The Sky men grab some musettes and come over the top of the climb. Majka and Pinot among them. Astanas Nibali and Aru are there too. This time, though, De Gendt manages to hold his speed and hold off the Frenchman, who is forced to concede defeat. Guess who else is from Boyac. GoPro: Tour de France 2016 - Stage 9 Highlight - YouTube announcers share fun local facts and historical tidbits to help fill the hours and hours of live commentary during each stage . Tweet me your thoughts @paddyfletch. How to watch Stage 9 of the 2016 Tour de France live stream online Without question, one of the favorites in the 2016 Tour de France from the very start wa. Vielha Val d'Aran - Andorre Arcalis, 37.5km The peloton is still a large group as the riders make their way up the long but gradual climb at a fairly steady pace, with many handing out bottles to each other. Martin is battling to get back on terms but it looks like this group is coming to the line together. Will one of the Dimension Data riders mount a challenge in Cavendish's defence? are movistar waiting for the ventoux and Alps? Wow. Visit our corporate site. Pierre Rolland, battered and bruised after his crash yesterday, has been dropped and faces a big fight today. The climb was in stage 11 of last years Vuelta also, with Mikel Landa soloing to victory and Fabio Aru taking the red jersey from Tom Dumoulin. ", 1 Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky 44:36:032 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange 00:00:163 Daniel Martin (Irl) Etixx-QuickStep 00:00:194 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team 00:00:235 Joaquim Rodrguez Oliver (Spa) Team Katusha 00:00:376 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 00:00:447 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 00:00:448 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Team Sky 00:00:449 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Lampre-Merida 00:00:5510 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team 00:01:01. Peter Sagan beat Alexander Kritstoff in the . The peloton hit the climb now and guess who's on the front? Just past the midway point of the second first-category climb, the Spaniard did what had seemed inevitable for a long time, per the Tour's official Twitter account: #ICYMI : l'abandon de Contador / Contador's abandon But what can I say, it is disappointing of course, but the race goes on and we are going to fight for the mountain jersey and the green jersey and to try to win some stages. It's clear that this climb won't be much of a factor - the real racing will be saved for the final couple of ascents. George Bennett (nzl) + 2.48 8. There is a brief lull in hostilities in the GC group but now Mollema accelerates again. Tour de France 2016: Stage 9 Results, Latest Standings and Highlights Chris Froome was leader in GC. Contador is absorbed back into the bunch. 4. Louis Meintjes (rsa) + 0.55 10. This will be his first Tour de France stage win. We'll be with you from the build-up to the fall-out, covering every pedal stroke in between. Four kilometres under the top it flattens out to under 8%, while the last two kilometres are around 5%. Dumoulin still has nearly a minute over Majka and Costa. Here's how it now looks: 1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Dimension Data 204 pts2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team 197, 3 Marcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step 182. In the background, the favourites for the yellow jersey kept unusually quiet, and it was Henao who launched the first attack. Martin counter-attacked and then went again when the road did get a little steeper 2km from home. Tinkoff team owner Oleg Tinkov has his say on the abandon of Alberto Contador. January 1 - July 24, Vielha Val d'Aran, France, Road - WorldTour. George Bennett tries to attack but hes reeled in by Pinot, who isnt standing for any funny business. The BMC plan of coming sixth and seventh overall is coming together perfectly. 1 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Giant-Alpecin 05:16:242 Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida 00:00:383 Rafa Majka (Pol) Tinkoff Team 00:00:384 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 00:01:395 Winner Anacona Gomez (Col) Movistar Team 00:01:576 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ 00:02:307 George Bennett (NZl) LottoNL-Jumbo 00:02:488 Diego Rosa (Ita) Astana Pro team 00:02:529 Mathias Frank (Swi) IAM Cycling 00:03:4410 Adam Yates (GBr) Orica-BikeExchange 00:06:35, Unconventional team-work by Richie Porte today.