Tour de France - Stage 9
Tour de France - Stage 9
Cannondale are warming up as well, almost all the teams are already hard at work..!
Tour de France - Stage 9
Peter Stetina is pedalling away as well, he looks apprehensive about the coming hours...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Luis Leon Sanchez leads a huge group of about 35 escapers...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Peter Sagan is in the big escape, he has his eyes on some bonus points about 150-kilometres down the road..!
Tour de France - Stage 9
Alberto Contador has suddenly attacked from the peloton and is getting across with Alejandro Valverde and Sergio Henao...
Tour de France - Stage 9
What's left of the peloton is climbing towards the summit of the Port de la Bonaigua...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Chris Froome is right near the front and ahead of Nairo Quintana in the final kilometres of the climb...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Mark Cavendish is one of the last riders to reach the summit, he faces a long chase and a lot of luck to get back later-on...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Rafal Majka and Sagan lead the escape up the Port del Canto with a six-minute advantage over the peloton...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Ian Stannard is working hard for Sky on the Canto climb, and they'll get news soon that Alberto Contador has abandoned...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Even Froome is feeling the heat as the temperatures rise to almost 40-degrees centigrade...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Sagan takes maximum points at the Andorra sprint to close-in on Cavendish's Green jersey...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Grmay has Coppel have attacked from the escape with three climbs and 40-kilometres to go...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Sagan has dropped back after the sprint - we'll be able to see his rainbow jersey again on stage 10, perhaps before he switches to Green..!
Tour de France - Stage 9
Mikel Landa leads Sky's climbers on to the steep ascent of the Col de la Beixalis - but they are now ten-minutes down on the escape..!
Tour de France - Stage 9
George Bennett makes a series of attacks from the escape, but fails to get away completely...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Tom Dumoulin has suddenly accelerated away from the escape before the final climb...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Geraint Thomas leads Sky and Froome as the rain starts to fall, big-time...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Tom Dumoulin wins at Arcalis - he has good reason to be this happy..!
Tour de France - Stage 9
Adam Yates finishes with Froome and Quintana over six-minutes later, but there are no changes to the overall top five...
Tour de France - Stage 9
Thibaut Pinot has taken the climber's jersey away from Majka after a long hard day in the saddle...
