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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 9 — Why Now?
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Le Tour 2021 – Stage 9

by Bryan

Tour de France Cluses > Tignes

Distance: 144.9 kilometers.

Definitely a Mountain stage with two Cat 2, two Cat 1, and an Hors Catégorie.

  • Côte de Domancy 19.6 km (cat 2: 2.5km @ 9.4%)
  • Col des Saisies 49.4 km (cat 1: 9.4km @ 6.2%)
  • Col du Pré 80.9 km(Hors Catégorie: 12.6km @ 7.7%)
  • Cormet de Roselend 93.3 km (cat 2: 5.7km @ 6.5%)
  • Montée de Tignes 143.0 km (cat 1: 21.0km @ 5.6%)

The intermediate sprint is at 32.7 km at Praz-sur-Arly.

Yellow Jersey Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [Yellow] 34 hours 11 minutes 10 seconds
Green Jersey Mark Cavendish (DQT – 055) [Green] 168 Points
Polka Dot Jersey Nairo Quintana (ARK – 136) [Polka Dot] 50 points
White Jersey Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [White] 4*

Stage winner: Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124)
Combative: Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124 ) [Red numbers]
Team: Bahrain Victorious ( TBV – 161-168 ) [Yellow numbers]

*Number 2 wearing the White as Number 1 is wearing Yellow.

After a run of stages with no losses, two riders didn’t start, three withdrew, and seven were outside the time limit. Tomorrow is a Rest Day.

Top 30 below the fold

1 Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001)
2 Ben O’Connor (ACT – 124) + 00h 02′ 01″
3 Rigoberto Uran (EFN – 111) + 00h 05′ 18″
4 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) + 00h 05′ 32″
5 Richard Carapaz (IGD – 022) + 00h 05′ 33″
6 Enric Mas (MOV – 065) + 00h 05′ 47″
7 Wilco Kelderman (BOH – 073) + 00h 05′ 58″
8 Alexey Lutsenko (APT – 188) + 00h 06′ 12″
9 Guillaume Martin (COF – 091) + 00h 07′ 02″
10 David Gaudu (GFC – 081) + 00h 07′ 22″
11 Peio Bilbao (TBV – 162) + 00h 08′ 38″
12 Mattia Cattaneo (DQT – 054) + 00h 11′ 38″
13 Aurélien Paret Peintre (ACT – 125) + 00h 11′ 54″
14 Dylan Teuns (TBV – 167) + 00h 20′ 54″
15 Jhoan Esteban Chaves (BEX – 172) + 00h 22′ 22″
16 Nairo Quintana (ARK – 136) + 00h 24′ 25″
17 Franck Bonnamour (BBK – 223) + 00h 25′ 07″
18 Wouter Poels (TBV – 166) + 00h 25′ 59″
19 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 211) + 00h 26′ 40″
20 Wout Van Aert (TJV – 012) + 00h 27′ 23″
21 Jonathan Castroviejo (IGD – 023) + 00h 32′ 23″
22 Sergio Luis Henao (TQA – 191) + 00h 32′ 51″
23 Bauke Mollema (TFS – 044) + 00h 36′ 00″
24 Ion Izaguirre Insausti (APT – 187) + 00h 36′ 06″
25 Ruben Guerreiro (EFN – 113) + 00h 36′ 57″
26 Jakob Fuglsang (APT – 181) + 00h 37′ 07″
27 Simon Yates (BEX – 178) + 00h 37′ 48″
28 Geraint Thomas (IGD – 021) + 00h 39′ 42″
29 Vincenzo Nibali (TFS – 041) + 00h 41′ 25″
30 Davide Formolo (UAD – 004) + 00h 41′ 52″

Did not start:
Primož Roglič (TJV – 011)
Mathieu Van Der Poel (AFC – 101)

Withdrew:
Tim Merlier (AFC – 103)
Nans Peters (ACT – 126)
Jasper De Buyst (LTS – 152)

Outside the time limit:
Arnaud Demare (GFC – 083)
Jacopo Guarnieri (GFC – 084)
Anthony Delaplace (ARK – 133)
Stefan De Bod (APT – 183)
Nicholas Dlamini (TQA – 196)
Loïc Vliegen (IWG – 217)
Bryan Coquard (BBK – 221)

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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