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00:00 (air whooshing)
00:02 (air whooshing)
00:06 (speaking in foreign language)
00:12 (speaking in foreign language)
00:29 (speaking in foreign language)
00:33 - How do you deal with heat?
00:46 - Yeah, we try to cool as much as possible
00:49 and yeah, with ice, water, like try what you can,
00:54 but in the end, it's always tricky.
00:56 (dramatic music)
00:59 - It's an absolutely roasting day
01:10 at the start here in Volcania.
01:12 (dramatic music)
01:16 (speaking in foreign language)
01:25 - Immediate attacks to the front of this race.
01:27 From the Israel Premier Tech, Kritz Neilands.
01:31 Caleb Ewan, look at the sweat pouring off
01:37 this sprinter already, grimacing.
01:39 Kevanya now drags the race.
01:44 - More attacks, there's a lot of teams
01:45 that are not represented in that front group.
01:47 - And this is the chasing group of riders
01:51 who are about to make the junction.
01:54 (speaking in foreign language)
01:58 - Now Jai Hindley and also Pidcock and Rodriguez
02:04 all need to chase.
02:06 Pogacar stretches the tempo, Bardet on the wheel.
02:11 This race is absolutely spread
02:13 all over the countryside right now.
02:15 (speaking in foreign language)
02:18 - The acceleration of Wout Van Aert.
02:22 How quick that Van Aert has jumped his way across.
02:25 16 riders, I make it, in that front group.
02:29 Peloton is coming all back together
02:32 and DSM, Firminac are trying to put riders
02:35 into the front group now.
02:37 (speaking in foreign language)
02:39 - This is not good news for Roman Bardet.
02:42 - Stay super calm, Roman, stay super calm in here.
02:48 - David Gaudu is in all sorts of trouble.
02:52 Chris Nielands on the other hand is absolutely flying.
02:57 - Please, I want a bit of company.
02:59 He knows it's gonna be a long task alone.
03:02 - So Wout Poels ups the tempo now.
03:05 We're getting to the second climb of the day.
03:07 He looks absolutely superb on this descent,
03:17 Julien Alaphilippe.
03:19 Now we're gonna have six leaders.
03:22 Things are coming all back together.
03:28 - It took over two hours, but the right move
03:37 finally went on this blockbuster of a stage.
03:40 Seven men got away originally, Chavez,
03:42 Asgreen, Bilbao, Skielmoza, Zimmermann, Bargiel and Schultz.
03:47 They were eventually joined by seven more,
03:49 Alaphilippe, O'Connor, Tejada, Nielands,
03:51 Pedrero, Perez and Kwiatkowski.
03:54 Riders who'd been dropped, including Bardet and Gaudu,
03:58 managed to catch up with the peloton,
03:59 but the pace remained high.
04:01 The 14 leaders working together nicely
04:03 as they approached the last of the day's five climbs,
04:06 where one man decided to try his luck solo.
04:09 - And this is a move now.
04:13 The attack has been teed up
04:14 by the team of Israel Premiertek.
04:17 And now Chris Nielands, the Latvian,
04:21 goes clear to try and win today's stage.
04:23 This is so impressive from Israel Premiertek today.
04:27 They are writing the script.
04:29 Alaphilippe, weight training his way towards the top.
04:34 Almost at the top of the final climb of the day,
04:38 the Cote de la Chapelle Marcus,
04:40 and the first rider is gonna crest it
04:43 and try and win the stage is the Latvian rider,
04:46 Chris Nielands.
04:47 He goes across the top for Israel Premiertek,
04:50 looking to give them two stage wins in this Tour de France.
04:54 - It was impossible that they chased it down,
05:01 and you're the best, you're the strongest,
05:03 and you have skills in downhill, incredible.
05:06 Come on, man, we're gonna make it, eh?
05:08 Focus on the downhill, let's focus on the downhill.
05:12 (dramatic music)
05:14 - And Nielands is caught by the chasers.
05:24 We reset, six riders now with a chance of winning stage 10.
05:29 Here goes the attack.
05:30 Zimmermann fires down the right-hand side, going for glory.
05:35 It's so nervous, and now they wait
05:40 because O'Connor comes back.
05:42 Ben O'Connor hunts them down,
05:45 and now it's gonna be time for a rider
05:47 who's won a stage in the Tour de France before.
05:50 O'Connor should hit them.
05:51 Zimmermann starts to lead out.
05:55 Here comes Esteban Chavez.
05:58 Pelle Bilbao opens up the sprint.
06:00 Esteban Chavez, the Colombian, on the wheel of Zimmermann,
06:04 all the way to the line.
06:06 Pelle Bilbao wins for Bahrain victorious.
06:10 - I crossed the line, and I just
06:16 put out all the anger I had inside,
06:20 and remembering the reason of this victory, no?
06:26 Special one for Gino.
06:28 - That was the first thought you had in your mind.
06:33 You probably had that thought in your mind
06:35 you the whole day.
06:36 - That was the only reason, no?
06:37 It was hard to prepare the last two weeks
06:41 with him in the mind,
06:42 but yeah, same with the family at home,
06:46 and same with my kid Martina.
06:50 She helped me a lot to just keep calm,
06:53 be positive, and put all my positive energy
06:58 to try to do something nice in the Tour.
07:01 I decided to make an all-in movement,
07:05 and in the end, yeah, it was the right movement,
07:10 and first victory in the Tour after 13 years
07:15 in profession, it's such a special moment for me.
07:19 - Bilbao is the first Spanish rider
07:28 to win a Tour de France stage
07:29 since his fellow Basque, Omar Fraile, in 2018.
07:32 The 33-year-old remembering Gino Maida
07:35 and adding to his two stage wins at the Giro d'Italia.
07:38 Vingegaard and Pagacar were both lively today,
07:42 but they finished together in the bunch
07:43 with the rest of the GC contenders.
07:45 Bilbao is up to fifth overall.
07:47 Philipsen will take center stage again tomorrow
07:51 on a sprint day to Moula.
07:52 He still leads the points classification
07:54 by a handsome margin from Brian Cocker.
07:56 Nilsson Paulus can also afford to take it easy
08:02 for a few days before we get to the Alps.
08:04 The king of the mountains still has 18 points
08:07 over Felix Galle.
08:08 You never know exactly when Taddei Pagacar
08:11 is going to attack, but the Tour's best young rider
08:14 may also decide to keep his powder dry
08:16 for the high mountains.
08:18 If you had to give advice to kids who want to do the Tour de France,
08:23 you wouldn't start with that.
08:24 (LAUGHTER)
08:26 So unfortunate.
08:27 (ROCK MUSIC)
08:29 (MUSIC ENDS)
08:30 (whooshing)