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Stage 9, Back In France — Why Now?
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Stage 9, Back In France

Tour de FrancePierrick Fedrigo of France took stage 9 and picked up 26 seconds on the leaders to move from 111 to 86 overall. Egoi Martinez of Spain captured the polka dot jersey, while yellow, green, and white are unchanged, and AG2R still leads the teams.

1. Rinaldo Nocentini (I/AG2R) 34:24:21 [yellow jersey]
2. Alberto Contador (E/Astana) +:06
3. Lance Armstrong (US/Astana) +:08
4. Levi Leipheimer (US/Astana) +:39
5. Bradley Wiggins (GB/Garmin) +:46
6. Andréas Klöden (D/Astana) +:54
7. Tony Martin (D/Team Columbia) +01:00 [white jersey]
8. Christian Vande Velde (US/Garmin) +01:24
9. Andy Schleck (LUX/Saxo Bank) +01:49
10. Vincenzo Nibali (I/Liquigas) +01:54

Selected others:

18. Cadel Evans (AUS/Silence) +03:07
46. Franco Pellizotti (I/Liquigas) +14:49 [red numbers]
48. Egoi Martinez (E/Euskatel) +15:30 [polka dot jersey]
50. Nicolas Roche (IRE/AG2R) +16:45
62. David Millar (GB/Garmin) +27:18
86. Pierrick Fedrigo (F/BBox) +39:43 stage 9 winner
121. Thor Hushovd (NOR/Cervelo) +1:04:32 [green jersey]
135. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Columbia) +1:13:54

From the BBC Cycling results and the official results sites.