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Tour de France 2012: Stage 9

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J💃anuary 1 - July 22, Arc-e𓃲t-Senans, Fra, Road - WorldTour

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The first major time trial of t⛦he Tour -- will our race leader domina🎀te, as expected?

Things continue today with 🎃a time trial -- 41.5km for the riders to cover. Who will 🌠be the best today?

World Champion Tony Martin is currently our leader. He covered the course in 53:40, which is nearly half a minute faster than Lieuwe Westra of Vacansoleil, who is in sec𒈔ond place.

Riders are taking to the start in reverse order of the GC. There is a two minute gap for the first 182 r🥀iders, and thereafter a three minute gap. 

You can check out all the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:start times here.

Check out @cyclingthealps preview of stage 9 from Arc-et-Senans to🗹 Besancon . Explore the route on a Google Map, with a Google Earth Tour or cycle it virtually!

As you can see, there is so far a fairly clear pattern as to who his strongest. Martin set the best times all along the way. Not bad considering he has a broken bon🎀e in his hand!

Here is the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:CN preview of today's stage, complete with Chris Boardman video.

Mick Rog♈ers has won a few World time trial titles himself, and yesterday he told our Pete Cossins, "We’ll go full bore in the time trial that’s for sure. If we can move up a couple of positions overall leading into the stages after the rest day then it’s all the better for us. It gives us a few m꧙ore cards to play. We’ll go as fast as we can and see where it takes us."

Jeremy Roy has🐭 put on a big show today, as well.  He set good times all along the way and is cur🌳rently third at the end, only 36 seconds slower than Martin.

80 riders have crossed the finish line so far, and the slowest has been Anders Lund of Saxo Bank-Tinkof Bank, at 1:00:56, more than seven minutes slower than Tony Martin.
 

Looks like "oldie" Jens Voigt (RadioShack-N🍎issan) is determined to make his mark! He is only nine seconds down at the first time check.

Here is what Greg Henderson (Lotto Belisol) tweeted about today's time trial: “I remember a couple years ago I had a crazy idea of riding nati🐼onal 40k TT champs. Watch me go 10mins slower today and 100w less. Hahaha.”

Peter Velits tweeted: “Very interesting TT course.🅰 It won't be boring today.

Voigt is also second at the secoಌ෴nd time check, now 14 seconds back.

As of now ✃the riders will go off at three minu🅰te intervals.

And Richie Porte had this to tweet: “After a day like yesterday I'm looking forward to a bit of a cruisy TT today. Will be a great gc battle #allezwiggo”
 

There are 11 national time trial champions here today: Gustav Erik Larsson of Sweden; Luis Leon Sanchez, Spain; Lieuwe Westra (Netherlands), David Zabriskie (USA); Tony Maﷺrtin (Germany), Phiilppe Gilbert (Belgium); Andriy Grivko (Ukraine), Fabian Cancellara (Swizterland), Sylvain Chavanel (France); Peter Velits (Slovakia) and Denis Menchov (Russia

We have had a number of changes in the various rankings over the last few stages, so let's take a look at them all.

In GC, Bradley Wiggins now leads Cadel Evans and Vincenzo Nibali.

    Result
1     Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Sky Procycling     38:17:56      
2     Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team     0:00:10      
3     Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale     0:00:16      
4     Denis Menchov (Rus) Katusha Team     0:00:54      
5     Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) RadioShack-Nissan     0:00:59      
6     Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling     0:01:32      
7     Maxime Monfort (Bel) RadioShack-Nissan     0:02:08      
8     Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Lotto Belisol Team     0:02:11      
9     Nicolas Roche (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale     0:02:21      
10   &🍨nbsp; Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne     0:02:27

Voigt cruises into second place at the finish! He crosses it in a time of 54:08, which is 28 seconds slower than Martin, and one se🎀cond faster than Westra.

Petꦅer Sagan of Liquigas continues to lead the points classification.

Ale🎐xandre Vinokourov of Astana is the next to go. This is his last Tour, he has said. After seeing his horrible crash in last year's Tour, who would have expected to see him here again?

Astana's Fredrik Kessiakoff is the new King of the Mountains.

    Result
1     Fredrik Kessiakoff (Swe) Astana Pro Team     21      pts
2     Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling     20      
3     Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team     18      
4     Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat     16      
5     Bradley Wigginsꦆ (GBr) Sky Procycling  🐬   12    

Another popular rider is about to take off: Tꦚhomas Voeckler of Eur🍌opcar. This race has not yet gone the way he would have liked, due to knee problems.

A good ride for Belgian national champion 🥀Philippe Gilbert, who is now eigth๊th at the finish.

With his fine performance Sunday, Rein Taaramae of Cofidis moved into the lead in the best young rider rankings.

1     Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne     38:20:23      
2     Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack-Nissan     0:00:46      
3     Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ-Big Mat     0:01:14      
4     Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team     0:01:41      
5     Gorka Izaguiღrre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi     0:💦03:38

Tony Martin put in his ride today without a brace or splint on his hand. And he said it was not e🔯asy.

Not only that, he punctured on🐭ly 5km away! Which all just goes to show what a great TTer he is.

This course seems to be more diffic🔜ult than one might thing. There are three climbs along thꦡe way, not ranked one, but not easy either. Manuel Quinziato of BMC called it "technically very challenging".

Sky has finally been bumped down in the teams ranking, with RadioShack-Nissan now the top cats.

1     RadioShack-Nissan     114:56:52      
2     Sky Procycling     0:02:51      
3     Liquigas-Cannondale     0:10:06      
4     Katusha Team     0:10:40      
5   &🍎nbsp; Omega Pharma-Quickstep     0:13:07  &nbs꧙p; 

Vino grinds his way up one of the climbs𒉰, which is literally lined with💯 fans. There is a great turnout this year.

Bradley Wiggins 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:had a few words to say about hi🔜s critics, most of which we can't repeat here.

Voeckler is 16th at the first time check.

Who would have thought that Fränk Schleck and Andreas Klöden would both have already been dropped as RadioShack-Nissan captains?  The team is now looking to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Haimar Zubeldia and Maxime Monfort.

Yesterday's stage winner, young Thibault Pinot climbs on his bike to warm up. He has a large admiring throng of fan⛎☂s watching him.

Peter Sagan of Liquigas has j꧋ust taken to the course. And hasn't he had an i𝔍ncredible Tour so far!

Fredrik Kessiakoff was happy to put on polka dots after his long hard ride on Sunday, and he ♏hopes෴ to keep the jersey until the end of the race.

Roওbert Gesink of Rabobank finishes the stage 2:59 slower than Tony Mart𒅌in.

Former world champion Fabian Cancellara is now on the road. Will he take this time trial, ♉too?

Eighth place at the moment for Vinokourov.

RadioShack is now leadi𝔍ng the teams ranking, but they are not wearing the yelllow helmets. That prob🦹ably wouldn't have been too practical in a time trial. But they do have yellow numbers.

Vinokourov, in𒐪terviewed on Eurosport, says he thinks Evans will win today.

Voeckler finishes the day 3:06 dow🐷n on leꦚader Tony Martin.

Vincenzo Nibali would like to win this Tour, but of course he is not the only one. He knows he168澳洲5最新开奖结果: has a tough battle ahead of him.

Sandy Casar puts in a new second-best time at the first 🔜time check.

George HIncapie of BMC finishes the day in just over 5💜6 minutes.

Cancellara is looking very smooth and powerful.

A🀅 very good time for Laurens Ten Dam of Rabobank, who is 15th at the finish.

The many fans are not only lining the road, they are on the road. So far all is going well, but we🔜 have all too often seen what can happen when the fans don't clea🌞r the road.

Cancꩵellara is approaching the first time check. Let's see how he does - or shall we say, by how much he will set a new best time?

21:37 is h🌸is time, more than 38 seconds faster than Martin.

Kesiakoff comes into the finish now. The 🅰King of the Mountains puts in a good time as well.

One of the Velits twins is on t♏he ro🍎ad now. This one is Peter.

The only question is this point is how Wiggins and Evans will do against Cancellara🍌. We wouldn't want to count either of t🐠hem out.

Is Can🌠cellara fast? Well, he has just caught and passed his three minute man, Bauke Mollema of Rabobank.

Peraud and an𝔍 Astana riဣder come in pretty much togehter. Peraud of AG2R is currently eighth.

Casar has now pa꧟ssed Sagan. Well, this is one stage the young L🤪iquigas rider won't win.

Thꦑe fans along (and in) the road are going cra🐼zy for their national champion Chavanel.

Cancellara has also put in a new best time at the second time check, over a🌠 minute faster than Martin.

Sanౠdy Casar comes t👍o the finish line. He has a time of 54:33, which makes him currently eighth.

Peter Sagan has finished, over four minutes back.

Not much further fℱor Cancellara, who will absolutely blast Martin's time.

And the Swiss rider indeed doe🅺s it, crossing tHE finish line with a time of 5꧙2:21!

Chavanel is t🐼he next best bet to put in a top time. Not that we think he will beat Canc🤡eallara, though.

Levi Leipheimer o🔯f OPQS is now underway. He has had a tough year.

Andreas Klöden is also on the road, and n𒉰ow Tejay♉ Van Garderen takes off.

If you want to see again what happened in yesterday's stage, you 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:can take 🎀a look here at the video highlights.

The next rider to go is Fränk Schleck.

And speaking of Schlecks, his brother Andy has had some bad news. His fracture is healing very slowly, and he miss not only the Olympics but also the rest of this se⭕ason.

Tony Martin has now fallen out of the to🌱p five at the first time check, by the way. Peter Velits, Jerome Coppel and Mick Rogers have🐟 all topped his time.

Chavanel has lost a bit of time. He♕ is 26 seconds down at the second time check, whereas he was only 7 seconds down at the first one.

Pinot takes to the course. He can expect extra cheers and support in thanks for bring🐲ing in the first French wi🥀n yesterday.

Froome and Wiggins are now warming up.

Chavanel zi🍨ps right pa🍸st Katusha's Eduard Vorganov.

Klöden is at 🗹the first time ♍check, and he puts in the fourth best time, 28 seconds slower than Cancellara.

Chavanel is now in second p🉐lace. His time was 52.48, and he is 27.73 seconds behind𓂃 Cancellara.

Tony Gallopin has started. T�♎�hat leaves us with only 10 more riders to go.

Rein Taarame put in a strong effort yesterday to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:gain the young rider's jersey, and he is determined to hang on to it.

Now here's a surprise -- Tejay Van Garderen has just topped Cancellara's🍎 best time at the first time check, by more than three seconds.

Peter Velits of OไPQS knocks teammate Martin off the day's podium, moving into third place. Their teammate Chavꦰanel is second, so the Belgian team is currnently second,third and fourth.

Nicolas Roche h🅠as been underway for three minutes, and now Lotto Beilsol's Jurgen Van Den Broeck is 🌃on the road as well.

Mick Rogers finishes outside the top ten.

Schleck 24th at the first time check.

Wiggins alone now warming up.

H༺is Sky teammate Froome is now on the start ramp. And he ෴is off!

Five more ri🐓ders to go: Zubeldia, Menchov, 🤡Nibali, Evans and Wiggins.

Coppel reaches the finish line and is curr🌼ently eighth.

Zubeldia has gone, and now we see Denis Menchov. He is all in white, as the Russian national ch෴ampion.

Gallopin is seventh♌ at the first tiꦆme check. And Van GArderen has passed Ivan Basso.

Wiggins now rolling his way to the start, a🐎s third-placed Ni🔯bali takes off.

Leiphimer comes in as 17th at the finish.

Cadel Evans is 10 seconds behind race leader Bradley Wiggins, but BMC team leader Jim Ochowicz is confident t🐽hat the Australian will do well in today's time trial.

And there is t⛦he Austr༺alian, ready for the first major time trial test.

In three minutes the last rider will take off, race leader Bradley Wiggins of S🐎ky.

Wiggins all in yellow and ready to roll.

Andreas Klöden finishes with a great time, makꦏi🌸ng him currently fourth.

Van Garderen also with the best time at the second time chec༺k, by two seconds.

Van Garderen has passed under the flamme rouge.

Van Garderen has lost time in the end, and can't to Cancellara's ti💛me. He i♛s second by nine seconds.

Froome at the firs▨t time check,and he too is fast. In 🌊fat he sets a new best time, an astonishing 23 seconds faster than Van Garderen.

Wiggins is also flying along, holding his upper body perfec♒tly sti🅠ll while the legs work hard.

Not suc༒h a good time for Menchov, only seve𒁏nth at the first time check.

Schleck comes to the finish line, 3:35 down.

N🅰ibali ꧂is riding, too, remember. He is at the frist time check, and is currently 10th.

L⭕etour informs us that Wiggins is now over one minute ahead of Evans in GC.

I could have sw🍎orn I just saw a giant pink bunny cheering the riders along....

Evans at the first time check: 2ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ2.07, only the 12th best time!

Are we looking at a Wiggins-Froome one-two♑ 🅷not only in this stage but also in the final GC?

Wiggins at 🏅the time check and he takes the lead, by 4.72 seconds.

Gallopin ✃is at the finish now, with a time of 54:10, making him momentarily eleventh.

20km left for Wiggins.

Phillipe Gilbert calls this a technicඣal course abnd the wind is favourable on a couple of quite testing ascents.

According to Richie Porte, it's not a super technical , but very nice, course one for the specialists. He was told to take it easy and he enjoyed it. Great cro♚wds.

Tony Martin: This course is more for

15km for Evans.

Van Den Br🧜oeck is at the finish, and at the mome꧙nt only 19th.

Thomas Voeckler: "Ther🍸e are a lot of changes of rhythm on the course so the non-specialists sh🦩ould have a chance to limit their losses."

George Hincapie called it a technical course, with not many straightaways. He was sur🍃prised by short ough hills and tight descents. He said it  suit Evans.

Froome ♓comes to the finish and will take the lead.

He even breaks the 52 minute mark, bꦛuꦰt just barely: 51:59.59.

Cancellara says he lost his ra🔯dio early on Fbut felt like he gave his all and did as well as he could do. He thought he's done enough to win. He couldn't gಌive any more. 

Wiggin💮s with ⛦the best time at the second time check, 16 seconds over Froome. Evans falling further back with every kilometer.

Mick Rogers said he went flat out at the first check to see how he pཧlaced, then eased off a bit. He called it a hard course especially after all the work done yesterday and that he is looking forward to big mountains where can set a fast tempo.

Zubeldia has finished♈ as well. Only four riders left now: Menchov, Nibali🧸, Evans and Wiggins.

In the virtual GC, Wig💦gins now ℱhas 1:46 over Evans.

Menchov with a time of 53:32🅠, making him momentarily sixth.

Only 5km left for Wiggins.

The third to last rider is in. Nibali has a time of 53:31, makiꦗng him sixth.

Eva⛎ns is not far behind. Wha♐t will his time be like?

Evans goes under the flamme rouge.

Evans' time is 53:07, and is fifth.

Wiggins in the last 500 metres.

He too will blast the best time.

And he wins the stage with a time of 51:24, 35 se💜conds faster than his teammate F෴roome.

What a show by the team Sky riders!

The top three are still Wiggins, Evans and Froome, but Wiggi๊ns has nearly two minꦗutes now on the Australian.

"I'm very happy with my🉐 performance," Froome says.

Of course we dꦫid not mean to say that the top three remains Wiggins, Evans and Froome.

Here the top ten for the stage:

And the new GC:

Va⛄n Garderen reclaims the best young rider jersey.

That will d𝓀o us for today. Th🔥anks for reading along.

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