Summary

  • Stage nine: Troyes - Troyes, 199km

  • GC battle under way on route containing 14 gravel sections

  • Tadej Pogacar wears the leader's yellow jersey

Live Reporting

  1. Anthony TurgisEPA

    You can read all about how a hectic stage nine unfolded in our report.

    There is a rest today on Monday so we will be back on Tuesday at around 12:15 BST when the race takes in a fairly flat parcours on the 187.3km run from Orleans to Saint-Amand-Montrond.

    Surely a day for the sprinters unless we get crosswinds and echelons late on.

  2. PogacarGetty Images

    All that attacking and Tadej Pogacar barely looks like he has got a sweat on.

  3. 'I never show how I am really feeling'

    Ineos Grenadiers rider Tom Pidcock speaking after being pipped at the finish: "In a group like that I never show how I am really feeling and I don't respond straight away to attacks. I do it a bit slower. It was hard. This morning I was less than 57kg so when you are averaging 280 watts for four and a half hours it is a lot.

    "When Stuyven went I was on the front and I was hoping the guys would respond from behind. It was difficult to let that play out but everyone else in the group is also there to win so you have to play off that a bit."

  4. Lots of riders now warming down and covered in dust like they've been doing a day on a building site.

  5. General classification after stage nine

    1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 35hrs 42mins 42secs

    2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) +33secs

    3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 15secs

    4. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +1mins 36secs

    5. Juan Ayuso (Spa/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 16secs

    6. Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 17secs

    7. Carlos Rodriguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 31secs

    8. Mikel Landa (Spa/Soudal-Quick Step) +3mins 35secs

    9.Derek Gee (Can/Israel-Premier Tech) +4mins 02secs

    10. Matteo Jorgenson (US/Visma-Lease a Bike) 4mins 03secs

  6. Stage nine results

    1. Anthony Turgis (Fra/Total Energies) 4hrs 19mins 43secs
    2. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) Same time
    3. Derek Gee (Can/Israel-Premier Tech) "
    4. Alex Aranburu (Spa/Movistar) "
    5. Ben Healy (Ire/EF Education-EasyPost) "
    6. Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz/Astana Qazaqstan) "
    7. Javier Romo (Spa/Movistar) +12secs
    8. Jasper Stuyven (Bel/Lidl-trek) +18secs
    9. Biniam Girmay (Eri/Intermarche-Wanty) +1min 17secs
    10. Michael Matthews (Aus/Jayco AlUla) Same time

  7. GC favourites finish together

    Biniam GirmayReuters

    Biniam Girmay leads the second group on the road home, with the GC favourites all rolling over the finish together with Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel enjoying a natter.

  8. Tom Pidcock was so, so close to a stage win there. The British rider was less than a wheel length from taking that.

  9. Victory for Turgis

    Stage nine sprint finishEPA

    Anthony Turgis takes it on the line from Tom Pidcock...what a finish.

  10. Derek Gee goes again...here comes Anthony Turgis....followed by Tom Pidcock...

  11. It's going to be a sprint finish...

  12. Ben Healy with a long-range attack...

  13. Alexey Lutsenko goes with Tom Pidcock....they are closing in on Jasper Stuyen.

  14. Derek Gee attacks...and noe Ben Healy goes.

    Can anyone catch Jasper Stuyven?

  15. The chasers look done for. Jasper Stuyven still has eight seconds.

    Neither of the Movistar riders Alex Aranburu and Javier Romo are putting a shift in.

  16. Jasper Stuyven is doing his own personal time trial here. Is he riding to glory?

  17. Tom Pidcock is still in contention up near the front as Michael Matthews tries to make a move from the Van der Poel group.

  18. Jasper Stuyven, who has never won a stage at the Tour, still has seven seconds on his chasers up the road.

  19. Tadej Pogacar is applying the pressure here with burst after burst.

  20. Remco Evenepoel puts the hammer down...

    He is quickly man marked by Tadej Pogacar.