168澳洲5最新开奖结果

Tour de France 2014: Stage 9

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January 1 - July 27, 🅺Gérardmer, France, Road - World🦹Tour

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There is climbing today! Six ranked climbs, including the first Cat. 1 climbꦯ, are along the 170 km from Gerardmer to Mulhouse. This is another one for a break group!

Six climbs tod𒆙ay, and it is still considered only a “medium mountains” stage. Will we see something happen in GC, or will all the top contenders stick together and eye one another to check out their rivals’ form?

The weather is once again not helping much today. Rain has been forecast for vir🍸tually the entire stage, and the wꦆind may play a role as well.

 We have a full house today, so to speak. All the riders who finished💧 yesterday have sigওned on today -- 184 in all.

As always, things kick off wꦐith a neutralised section, They should be leaving now for that, and the sharp start 🍸should be in another 10 minutes.

This kind of stage frequently starts out with a flat section before heading up the climbs. Not today. They start out uphill, with the first climb co♐ming at only 11.5km. However, instead of a mountaintop finish, we have a 21 km long 𝓡flat run-in to the finish line.

The weather is actually better than expected, relatively speaking. It is 16.5°C, and dry at the moment, alt🌜hough heavily overcast. There may be some rain in the mountains, but it ought to be dry at the finish.

Here is a quick look at the climbs today:

And they ha📖ve now off💝icially taken off! How long until we have escapees?

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And the first to take off is -- Peter Sagan! 💙The Cannondale rider shoots away after 2 km. Guess he is eager to finally get his first stage win this year!

You didn't realꦬly think they were going to let him go, did you? Although a 168 km solo break would have been cool......

As you might expect, things have gotten off to a very hectic start. About a dozen riders are trying to establish a break. The pace is so high on this first climb that already some ꦇriders are falling off the back, as well.

165km remaining from 170km

Now there are said tඣo be 23 riders in the grꦐoup, but they still have only a very minimal lead.

We are getting some height in these climbs today. The Cotဣe de la Schlucht is 1140 m, and Le Markstein is 1183♔m.

Amon💜g those already struggling are French champion Arnaud De🍎mare and Lotto's Marcel Sieberg. 

160km remaining from 170km

Rodriguez and Voeckler are busy in the group, and Trek is le✃ading the chase to bring them back, as they approach the ♏first mountain ranking.

The first mountain points of the day go๊ to Voeckler, followed by Edet and Rodriguez.

157km remaining from 170km

There is a l🏅ong semi-flat section here, before they start descending. And once down, they will immediately 💎start climbing again.

152km remaining from 170km

150km remaining from 170km

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Yesterday's stage winner and KOM Biel K🌺adri suffered a mechanical, and is🎀 now scurrying to catch up with the field again. He wants more points!

Oleg Tinkov is sure of who will win, and no surprise, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:his pick is Alberto Contador. 

30 seconds now for De Marchi and Martin, as the second ascent looms. An🎶d more attacks out of the peloton....

135km remaining from 170km

Yesterday’s stage with t🌜he first mountaintop finish saw a survivor of the breakaway group make it through to the end. We look for another break today – but the big drama may come on those closing flat kms. Or will there be some decisive moves amongst the GC contenders on that Cat. 1 climb?

De Marchi an🎶d Martin now have 40 seconds, and there is a group of about 21 ൲between them and the peloton. 

132km remaining from 170km

The gap to the peloton is now 1:10.๊ Astana is at the head of the field.

The second climb has been conquered. De M𓄧archi was first over and took two points,𝕴 foliowed by Martin with one point.

World Champion Rui Costa was disappointed to lose time yesterday when he suffered a mechanical. He said168澳洲5最新开奖结果: it was a tough stage, and the pounding rain didn't help. 

Another🐼 update on the ever-changing situation: the two leaders have 38 seconds over Spilak, Montaguti, Van Avermaet, Rolland, Quémeneur, Navarro, Edet, and Machado. Behind them is a group of 19. The peloton is then back at💦 1:58.

Kadri has only now made it back to the peloton.

Here is the large chasing group: Rojas (Movistar), Rodriguez (Katusha), Paulinho (Tinkoff), Koren (Cannondale), Boom and Kruijswijk (Belkin), Chérel (AG2R), Dumoulin (Giant), Valls (Lampre), Ladagnous (FDJ), Gallopin (Lotto), Moinard (BMC), Gautier, Pichot, and Reza (E𒈔uropcar), Cancellara (Trek), Meier (Orica), Chavanel (IAM), and Feillu and Bideau (Bretagne).

Astana, around GC leader Nibali, is leading the📖 peloton. They are easy to pick out today as they are all wearing bright yellow helmets.

107km remaining from 170km

Boom is 22 seconds behind De Marchi and Martin.

Boom is now caught by the chasers.

We had some changes in the various rankings coming into today&rsquo🎃;s stage. In GC, Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) is st𒁏ill top dog, with teammate Jakob Fuglsang second at 1:44. Riche Porte (Sky) jumped to third (1:58), Michael Kwiatkowski (OPQS) fourth at 2:26, and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) fifth at 2:26. Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) finished a few seconds ahead of Nibali yesterday and made a huge jump up to sixth place, only second behind Valverde.

The gaps are grow🥃ing, but very slowly. The two leaders have 41 seconds over the chase group, with the peloton at 2:20ꦉ.

102km remaining from 170km

There is yet another group underway today: The Kittel group is 🌞already five minutes down.

 Looks like these groups are going to be the groups of the day, in one form or another. Astana seems to have decided to let th🐟em all go, as the gap has suddenly gone to the three minute mark.

Once again De Marchi takes the tw🥂o points at the mounꦆtaintop, with Martin right behind him.

No change in the points classification, as Peter Sagan (Cannondale) overwhel✅mingly leads Bryan Couqard (Europcar) and Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano).

98km remaining from 170km

We know what a machine Martin is -- the Panzerwagen, right? De Marchi is learning that right now, as he is having difficu♐lty holding ✨on to Martin's wheel.

Meanwhile, 🍷the gap back to the peloton is over four minutes.

Biel Kadri (AG2R) used his stage win to take ༺over the polka dot jersey. He now leads the mountain rankings with 17 points ahead of Cyril Lemoine (Cofidis) and Sylvain Chavanel (IAM). We may well see another change here today.

Darwin Atapuma of BMC had some 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:successful surgery for his fractureꦗd femur. The Colombian was a stage 7 crash victim.

The Feed Zone has been reache🦩d. Gentlemen, the buffet is o𒁏pen!

No time today for a leisurely lunch. The next climb is coming up, the cat. 2 Côte♕ de Gueberschwihr.

86km remaining from 170km

Kadri dropping off the back of the pꦏeloton. Not what one expects to see from the man in the KOM jersey.

Alejandro Valverde lost a handful of seconds yesterday 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:but was not dissatisfied. 

84km remaining from 170km

Purito sees that it isn't going tꦺo happen and ﷽drops back. Navarro is now a few meters ahead.

Oops, Edet and not Nava🌺rre.🔯 And they jumped to gather some mountain points.  First over was De Marchi, again, followed by Martin, Rodriguez and Edet.

The peloton has a gap of 5:53 at the mountaintop.

Kadri has been a♐ble to rejoin the peloton on the descent.

De Marchi seems to have a problem with his left hand. He shakes it fꦚrequently, an🐻d just poured a bottle of water over it.

Kittel 🌌may have been dropped long ago, but rival German sprinter Andre Greipel (Lo✃tto) is still in the peloton. Or at least, he would be if he wasn't back getting bottles for his teammates at the moment.

We have a new race leader! Well, virtually, anyway. The gap between the cha💙se group and the peloton is large enough that Tony Gallopin is now wearing the virtual yellow jersey.

In the team ranking, Astana 🅠leads oveꦦr Belkin and Sky.

The large chasing group is falling apart. Chavanel and Reza have been caught by the peloton, and Boom iꦿs said to be dangling in between.

Two riders suffered fracture femurs on stage seven, and both have now had successful surgery. IAM was happy to report that Mathias Frank came through 𓆉with no complications.

65km remaining from 170km

The gaps are growiꩲng. Nearly three minutes now for the chasers, an𝓡d 6:36 for the peloton.

This is not the only large sporting event in the world happening today. Germany faces Argentina this even🍎ing in the finals of the soccer world championship. Are the German riders at the Tour interested? Well, yes.

Time now for the first Cat. 1 climb of this Tourꦑ! Le Markstein is the next obstacle in the way.

Astana doesn't look like they are worried꧅ about this huge gap. IN fac▨t, the whole peloton looks like they are rather enjoying a leisurely ride.

With 59 km to go, Martin is tired of goofing up and picks up the pace. De Marchi tries but can't, so the German t♔akes off alone.

The Kittel group, which is around 20 riders, finally made it through the𒐪 intermediate sprint. We weren't given a time gap, though.

John Degenkolb and Marcel Kittel are both happy about the game tonight, but not just because they w🔴ant Germany to win. Argentina beat the Netherlands in the semi-finals, and it might have been awkward for the German riders on the Dutch team, if the two lands had gone up against one another in the final.

A mini-crash in the middle of the field. Mat🐻thew Busche's bike seems to be the main victim. Geraint Thomas w𒊎as also involved but was quickly on his way again.

Now the gap to the chasing g꧋roup is getting sꦅmaller, only two minutes.

More riders ꦯdropping off the back of the peloton as they go up the cat. 1 Le Markstein, including Ka💟dri once again.

Martin h﷽as 5 km to go to the Cat. 1 summit, and unfo🦩rtunately we see the first raindrops.

45 ꧙seconds now to De Marchi, 2:43 to the chase group, and 7:07 to the peloꩲton.

The rain i✅s real💖ly coming down on the riders as they climb.

Martin is looking quite comfort🍸able on the climb. He's getting closer to the top. He will then descend and then start the final cl🌞imb of the day before a long and flat run-in to the finish line.

Astana is leading the peloton with its race leader Vincenzo Nibali looking comfortable, and keeping a watchful eye o🎐n his rivals.

Martin 🐻is reaching🐲 the top of the climb where cycling fans have lined the streets to cheer him onward.

Martin has gone under the banner and crested Le Markstein ascent. He is on the descent and has one more climb to go over -- Gran🍬d Ballon.

 The chase grow comes to the mount🤡aintop, and Rodriguez and Edet sprint for the next points. 

Martin now has 2:10 over De Marchi, w🌄ith the chase group at 3:32, the peloton at 8:23 and the Kittle group at 15:00.

If Tony Martin wins the next mountain ranking, which is coming up in only a few more ams, then he will move into the KOM lead. And if he comes over that with ♎a good gap, he will probably win this stage. 

The day's final climb is Balཧlon. There is no descent from the Cat. 1 climb, this is sort of a continuation, and comes only 7 km after Le Markstein.

Rodriguez has jumped from the chase grow and caught De Marchi. Let's make that, caughꦅt and passed.

Rodriguez and De Marchi are together now, and they are about to be joined by the cha🌃se group.

Tony Martin did of course win that last mountain ranking, and R꧙💮odriguez had jumped to get the other one available point.

Cobblestones on a descent in the raജin.  We d🔥on't like this. 

Feillu slips a bit on a curve🅠, has to take one foot out of the pedal.

Shortly before the peloton comes to the mountain ranking, Thibault Pinot jumped. He has built up a ༺tidy 💃little gap.

Martin takes about three minutes into the final descent and long closing flat stretch. Will that be enough for 💎the three time world time trial champion?

Romain Bardet punctured bu🥀t is now continuing on his way.

Martin keeps on going, in his usu🔯al way: very untroublꦍed, methodical. 

Two AG2R riders have dropped🍌 back to help Bardet back up to the field.

Happy Birthday to Andreas Schillinger of NetApp-Endura. ꦜThe German has turned 31 today.

Sཧpeaking of NetApp, the team i💎s holding a press conference on Tuesday’s rest day to announce a new title sponsor. And not just a new sponsor, but a German firm which is signing up for five years. A lot of other teams are probably jealous of that right now.

26km remaining from 170km

Tony Gallopin can all but taste the yellow jersey. He stands to take it over, and can hardly🍃 wait, so he jumps from the chase group. He wouldn't mind catching his namesake and taking the stage win, as well.

Pinault is still ahꩲead of the field, but just barely. They have him in their sights now.

Someone else has jumped to catch up with Gallopin, but we can't make out who it is. He is still 3.12 behind Maꦚrtin with 21.6km to go.

It is Cherel from AG2R who has joined Gallopin.

19km remaining from 170km

Egoitz Garcia of Cof꧋idis has abandoned. He wඣas injured, and in this stage was behind even the grupetto.

61🧸km/h for Martin now. We guess he hasn't lost his ⛎power.

15km to for Martin. He also has sunshine at the moment but we must admit the sky doesn't look entire𓂃ly friendly.

13km and still three minutes for Martin. The time gaps are holding quite steady🍒.

Martin takes the short way on a roundabout an𝕴d simply bunny hops on and off the raised cobblestones in the middle. 

Gallopin already h🥃as a huge smile on his face, as he knows he will be moving into yellow. 

8km remaining from 170km

This is actually been ideal for Martin. T♔here is only one time trial in the Tour this year. This way, Martin was able to give himself some more TT training and win another stage along the way (🦄we assume!)

The OPWS car pulls up to Martin and Davide Bram🧔atti shouts out encouragement to the German.

NetApp's Machado is doing much of the le൩adwork of the chasing group in this closing phase.

Only three km left for Martin.

This ꦓwill be Martin's third Tour stage win, and his first non-time tri🤡al win.

Last KM for Martin!

Finally he shows 🐟his emotions, making a fist, waving to the team car, and smiling.

One last look back -- nope, no one there -🔜- and hr r꧅aises his arms in joy as he solos across the finish line.

The next Tony will als🧸o have something to celebrate.

ไEuropcar is leading the chase group into the🥀 finish.

Last km for ꧙the chase group. Gallopin holds himself out of the race for the 🦄remaining podium places. 

BMC opens the sprint, but it is Fabian Cancellara who takes second. So first and second places for ti🤡me trial experts!

Gallopin is surrounded 🃏as he c꧅rosses the finish line. An emotional moment for the 26-year old.

The peloton is still underway. A🐼stana and Nibali do not look upset to have lost the yellow jersey. This will make a little less work for them now.

What Nibali cares about more right now is the time difference between him and his top rivals, of whom Gallopin is not really one. As it now looks, those time diffeꦅrences will remain the same.

Last km for the peloton now, and more t♑han se🙈ven minutes.

It is 7:46.

Top ten for the stage:

Gallopin now leads the race, with Nibali second and Machado thi꧅rd.

General classification after stage 9

What an exci🍒ting Tony day we had! Congratulatons to both of them, and of course to all.&♏nbsp;

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