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00:00 (dramatic music)
00:02 - It's contender time and they are chasing history.
00:08 (speaking in foreign language)
00:13 - For everybody, it's gonna be something new tomorrow.
00:19 - I've seen the Puy du Dome
00:21 and I know it's very, very steep, the last 4K.
00:23 - Yeah, I think it will be super, super hard
00:27 and it will blow again to pieces probably.
00:30 - Are you ready for round three?
00:34 - Vengagard attacks.
00:36 Pogacar is unable to react to Jonas Vengagard.
00:41 - I couldn't follow because he was just,
00:44 yeah, stronger today.
00:45 - I know today he never gives up.
00:49 - And here's the attack.
00:50 Pogacar rips it now up this mountain.
00:54 The white jersey has decided.
00:56 - Right, yesterday you put me on the ropes.
00:59 Today I'm gonna absolutely blitz it up this mountain.
01:03 - I think there's gonna be some gaps probably
01:06 and yeah, it's gonna be interesting stage today.
01:08 - Don't leave your screens today.
01:16 This is a big day.
01:25 (speaking in foreign language)
01:30 - We're underway on stage number nine.
01:33 Immediate attacks at the front
01:35 as riders try and go clear.
01:37 This is a big group.
01:38 - That's a really hard start.
01:42 A lot of riders are getting dropped.
01:44 Couple of riders have been dropped.
01:46 Pedersen has been dropped.
01:49 - The first move was the right move today
01:52 as 14 riders broke away from the start.
01:56 In spite of a few counterattacks,
01:57 they eventually opened up a big gap of more than 10 minutes,
02:01 meaning one of them would be claiming
02:02 a very prestigious stage victory.
02:04 Up at the front then, the king of the mountains,
02:08 Paulus, along with Bertet, Woods, Boivin, Jorgensen,
02:12 Gorka Izaguirre, Mohoric, Luthor, Bergadot,
02:15 de la Cruz, Lutsenko, Campenaerts, Abrahamson and Gregar.
02:20 Plenty of strong riders and several teams
02:22 with several cards to play.
02:24 Back in the peloton, the big guns were just marking
02:28 each other before the big summit showdown.
02:31 - 47 kilometers an hour.
02:37 The big attack from Jorgensen.
02:40 - And there's no direct reaction.
02:41 He's opened up a gap.
02:43 - 10 seconds, 10 seconds to the front rider.
02:47 - And Jorgensen, as a rider,
02:49 if he gets to the final climb on his own,
02:51 he'd be absolutely odds on to win the stage.
02:54 Here he goes.
03:04 A very special moment.
03:05 There's the vital statistics.
03:07 An American leads onto the Puy de Dome.
03:10 Nine kilometers to go.
03:13 Jorgensen leads.
03:14 1.01.
03:16 1.43, the chasers.
03:18 15.25 to the peloton.
03:20 - So at the front of the peloton,
03:22 it is Kelderman, it is Van Aert,
03:24 behind him Groschenner, Hindley, then Bernal,
03:26 behind him is Rodriguez, then Pidcock.
03:29 And now Paulus cannot go with the acceleration
03:31 of Matty Moritz.
03:33 Paulus' legs have given out.
03:35 - Important day quarter for today, Antalya.
03:40 - Michael Woods going rider per rider,
03:43 doing a really good climb.
03:44 He's now going to catch Bergando.
03:46 - Paulus is empty, isn't he?
03:49 Unfortunately for the American King of the Mountains.
03:52 - Michael Woods powering his way up,
03:57 getting very close to Moritz.
03:59 - Moritz there, 42 seconds now to Moritz,
04:02 who looks around and realizes that Woods is coming.
04:05 Woods is the strongest rider on this mountain
04:08 except Jorgensen.
04:10 A much more small group now.
04:12 It is Kuss, Vengergaard, Pogacar, Simon Yates,
04:17 Rodriguez, Pidcock, Jai Hindley and Adam Yates.
04:22 That's all that's left now.
04:24 - Oh, and Moritz looks hard.
04:26 That's it.
04:28 - Moritz has gone now.
04:30 Michael Woods, 40 seconds from a stage win.
04:32 Michael Woods is edging closer and closer to the stage win.
04:38 And now he's going to go past.
04:40 Michael Woods dashes the dreams, blasts the hopes,
04:45 puts Jorgensen on the ropes.
04:47 It's 35 years since a rider crested the top of the Puy de Dome
04:52 in the Tour de France.
04:54 It's a Canadian who has conquered the mythical mountain.
04:58 Michael Woods wins on the Puy de Dome.
05:01 Pierre Latour is going to give France second place
05:06 on the Puy de Dome.
05:08 What a climb by Pierre Latour.
05:11 Jorgensen, after 47 and a half kilometers,
05:15 is not going to be on the podium.
05:17 Heartbreak for the American.
05:19 Moritz takes third.
05:21 Jorgensen spent in fourth place.
05:24 Pidcock grimacing at the back.
05:26 - Yes, at this moment,
05:27 Yates is really riding for the podium.
05:30 - Attack!
05:31 Pogacar now goes.
05:33 Tornado Taddy decides it's time.
05:36 And here we go now.
05:37 UAE Team Emirates, Taddy Pogacar.
05:40 And only one rider is able to respond.
05:42 And it's the yellow jersey.
05:44 Finger guard.
05:45 Now he starts to up the tempo a little bit more.
05:48 He's absolutely on the limit.
05:50 The pain threshold is just beyond comprehension.
05:54 Pogacar now has the momentum.
05:58 He has the initiative.
06:00 He has the focus.
06:02 This is the moment where the yellow jersey
06:04 could be taken by UAE Team Emirates.
06:06 Pogacar into the rest day.
06:09 Finger guard refuses to give in.
06:13 (dramatic music)
06:15 Every second will count.
06:19 Pogacar crosses the line now at 8.21.
06:24 Behind him, how long is it gonna be?
06:26 It's going to be eight minutes and 28 seconds.
06:31 Finger guard holds on.
06:32 It's about nine or 10 seconds on the line.
06:35 - UAE, you're really limiting their losses.
06:37 Really, really good.
06:38 (dramatic music)
06:41 - Yeah, it was deafening until I got to about 4K to go.
06:48 I couldn't hear anything.
06:49 And then all of a sudden, silence.
06:51 My ears were still ringing.
06:52 And I had a lot of time to think, a lot of time to suffer.
06:56 And just looking up the road
06:57 and trying to make as much time back on Jorgensen.
07:01 I'm not getting any younger.
07:02 I've always talked about winning a stage
07:05 at the Tour de France.
07:06 And I can't believe I did it.
07:08 (dramatic music)
07:11 - Woods coming from a long way back
07:12 to claim his first stage win at the Tour de France
07:15 and the 14th victory of his career.
07:17 Spare a thought for poor old Jorgensen
07:19 who didn't even make the podium.
07:21 Finger guard couldn't quite hold Pogacar's wheel
07:25 in the final, but limited his losses to just eight seconds.
07:28 He keeps hold of yellow by a measly 17 seconds.
07:36 Jasper Philipsen finishes the week
07:38 with a commanding lead in the green jersey standings
07:40 thanks to his three stage wins,
07:42 110 points clear of Brian Cocker.
07:44 Poulos extended his advantage in the mountains classification
07:52 after getting into the breakaway.
07:54 He leads Felix Galle by 18 points
07:56 with Tobias Johannesson in third.
07:58 Pogacar didn't get his hands on yellow,
08:03 but he remains in white,
08:04 comfortably the best young rider at this Tour.
08:07 He's over four minutes clear of Rodriguez.
08:09 Nine stages down, 12 to go,
08:12 and the fun's only just getting started.
08:14 Join us again on Tuesday.
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