Tour de France 2020: Stage 9 highlights | NBC Sports

[Music] the tour de france stage number nine is underway we are into the pyrenees today and a massive climb sitting just ahead of the race at the moment the tour de france coverage presented by rocket mortgage they're expecting a little bit of dampness on the top of the climbs today early on and that could be quite serious i'm phil liggett bob roll is not quite alongside me well not far off he's only three and a half thousand miles away in the united states but we are we are blending well together and thank you for all your kind words on our coverage this year a little break forming bob it's been a terrific first 40 minutes of racing they are absolutely storming out of poe trying to get to la roon as quickly as they can apparently today maybe the peloton looking forward to rest day number one tomorrow two riders just off the front hugh carthy from ef in the pink and teach benut in the black and white of sunweb but the peloton not letting them go very far and it's a very tough stage today but there's a two man off the front when he's seen they've got a little bit a bit of a spit this is a real slog at this climb almost seven miles and they're gonna have to get forward he's gonna have to move into this front group immediately because robleach is here and rockless now is the man to beat as far as the yellow jersey jumbo visma is concerned i think that's audrey amador or it might be carapaz going across the gap in the black dylan van barrow looks to be the man in the dark blue there is a there is primos road glitch excuse me a little bit further down and there's adam yates even further behind leonard cayman is on the attack warren bargiel trying to follow walt van art he is the yumbo viesma man and yellow fourth wheel and it is getting hot right now valentine madois has been very active for the group alma squad in the red white and blue and he was back there with tebow pinot already looking for the breaks after being the breakaways after being dropped yesterday at the head the peloton is breaking away but with the riders that aren't affecting roglic or adam yates and they're watching each other like a hawk in what's left of that main pack casper viejo gone across to the front group now behind mark hershey there's danny martinez making an attack in the pink jersey with the yellow numbers that's the leading team ef education first so danny martinez on good form he's got one rider in front of him some wet roads but danny martinez now on the move davide formula is there just behind him with leonard caimner and warren barkeel in the red jerseys with the archaea written across his shoulders well for me this is an attack by danny martinez in an attempt to see if he can win the stage we go back to the leader on the road her she's just gone past four kilometers two and a half miles to the summit but martinez came into this race with an outside chance of winning the tour de france in those early days he lost over three minutes with crashes now he's looking for a stage win and that's him trying to get clear up front oh well the back's gone again yeah this is tebow pino gave it a try early on in the climb but not translating into the good legs he hoped for this is the main peloton led by jumbo that's just in front of him so there's plenty of riders behind his riding much better than he was yesterday that's for sure but not 100 recovered from whatever it is that's ailing him including the bad back that he suffered from in the in the opening week of the tour de france but look at the caution there bob look at the gaps between the wheels of the chaser we've gone back to the yellow jersey group here she extending his advantage over the chasers 124 now and that big group just in front of the peloton only about 24 seconds behind the jumbo visma led main group as it were of gc contenders but that's been very reduced on that previous category one the orsare unknown to the tour de france they're going to know it and remember it now the lone leader today comes from switzerland he writes for team somewhere his name is mark hess she he's never ridden the tour de hot to france before but he is already one hour behind in the overall but he's setting himself up with a real chance today he's climbing the coal to day at the moment as we go back down the road to the main field at 2 minutes 32 behind him the yellow jersey of the race leader off to the right of our picture here primos rockledge he's the leader of the team he's not the yellow jersey of the race that's still adam yates three seconds ahead of him that's where we are we've crossed over the first climb we're now climbing the second climb of the day and just over the top after we've done this today we will have a sprint a town called aret which uh as bob roll pointed out we mean stop in french i don't think anybody will be stopping there today now watch these roads they are deadly just now oh baby mark here she hold on tighten down your bootstraps this is going to be a wild ride all the way down the race director's car the officials car in red and the motorbikes having a hard time staying in front of mark hirschy on this descent let's hope he makes it safely off of this he's still got a lot of racing left on the stage mini 56 ticked by this is the second group on the road and still nobody affecting the destiny of adam yates's yellow jersey things working out for adam at the moment as he comes through the mist here look at these conditions this is what the organization feared was the road to be totally treacherous in its this section of the pyrenees today fears realized a little bit further down the descent a little bit brighter the prospects for uh she a little bit certainly showing no fear of this descent that is true it's been recently paved obviously so smooth tarmac sometimes that presents its own problems in the rain though at least the visibility is considerably better for hershey than it was for the peloton just a moment ago but there was a sprint moment ago from the main field because peter sagan the green jersey points leader is not in this group but matteo trentin was and long term he could become a challenger for that green jersey remember a couple of days ago he outspent his second for some minor points well no segan this time and so he will climb up to a pretty solid fifth place in that competition i think we can show you that that's the results there this all the main points going to hershey frail in the chase group etc as we get further down trenton is uh now in with 98 points so he's fifth in the competition still uh 40 points behind peters again so that's two wins out on the course behind sega very good but a good competition it was wasn't it and the jumbo visma team here setting the pace for their leader primos roglitz three seconds off the yellow jersey today heading up towards the summit of the climb of the call this year and then they'll be heading to the base of the calder mary blanc and then i think someone will like the blue touch paper bob i want to say that it was uh um david going over there for the one point in the kom competition teammates with tebow pino who's been yo-yoing off the front off the back he caught back into this group but it's been dropped again on this climb so tebow pino not out of the woods yet and having a very tough day this man mark hirschy having a great day just that those banners in front there is the start of the climb of the mary blanc this is a real serious climb one of the most revered climbs in the tour de france it's a toughy and this is where it starts for marquez she's going on to the climb at the lead of three minutes 33 the climb is 4.8 miles or 7.7 kilometers elevation gained over 2000 feet maximum gradient bob of nearly 15 and look at that average gradient eight point six percent so it kicks up hard throughout a little bit more gradual at the beginning slopes and then gets steeper and steeper and steeper towards the top but if he can hold on to 30 seconds to a minute in the next seven and a half kilometers great chance to win the stage we've seen how well he's descending but when we look back at the peloton they are absolutely flying right now wild von art already a stage winner twice in this year's tour in a stage winner last year it's been wild fan art just absolutely drilling it in the peloton they would not be going that hard phil without a reason to do so and i think it's because primos road is fancying a day in the yellow jersey at least at the end of today not later in the tour but today yes and keep it on his bedpost overnight because tomorrow is a rest day in the tour that'll be a lot of publicity for the leader of the tour de france just that those banners in front there is the start of the climb of the mary blanc this is a real serious climb one of the most revered climbs in the tour de france it's a toughy and this is where it starts for mark here she's going on to the climb at the lead of three minutes 33 the climb is 4.8 miles or 7.7 kilometers elevation gained over 2000 feet maximum gradient bob of nearly 15 percent four kilometers and poor tibor pino he's hanging on a little bit now but that sign of only four kilometers is going to give him a little bit of encouragement i would have bet two hours ago when we saw his face he was going to retire from the tour he hasn't he's fought back into this race because he is suffering terribly from a painful back yikes feeling the the sting of cepcus's climbing ability at the moment george bennett looks very steady looking up the road clear-eyed and relaxed and when sep pulls off there's still two main teammates left for primo's road glitch a long ways from the finish so jumbo visma riding very well and if you look at how many ineos riders are i think it's just a couple we're losing teammates now because this rider going off here is mikael and the other and we're down to just over 20 riders 20 riders bob 80 started the climb just 20 riders left in that bunch there now containing the favorites this is goodbye to mikhail cheryl on the ag2r french team and it's all under the impetus at the moment of cepcus who's riding on the front and that is castro viejo if i'm not mistaken he was egan bernal's last teammate in this front group might be might be karapa still there but that's worrying if you're hanging on bernal the old sticky thing is there's he took some food just to keep the rhythm going gotta watch that because the referees will be up for it hershey's on the 12 sector now yates has gone on the slightly steeper leg and it's reversed now and because the end of this climb is the steepest it that's why the mario brought is so hard adam yates in serious trouble right now miguel yates is controlling his pace this is how he climbs he can recover from this but what is concerning him of course of these time bonuses at the top remember at the moment they are racing for second place but now leading the group here it's a five-second bonus at the top of the climb that's the situation on the road virtual without bonuses they haven't got there yet roglic now leads the tour by six seconds over martin eight bar day and out of the top five already gone is the race leader on the road in yellow adam yates well you've seen the battle without commenting now we'll bring you right up to date here because we've seen teddy pagacio break away in the white jersey his countryman robleach is coming back up to him the yellow jersey of adam yates is in serious difficulty here he is he's going to have to climb his own pace and hope he can get back on the way down to the finishing line he has lost his virtual lead in the gr in the yellow jersey standings egg and bernal has made the juncture pogacha doing the acceleration land is there and primos roguelitch looking very dangerous second wheel in the yellow shoulder jersey nairo quintana was dropped he's fighting back he's coming back in the red jersey on the left of our screen but never in the history of the tournament have we seen two that's bernal going now to test them pogba charles picking himself up so too is rockledge oh this is a very determined move to remind everybody that again bernal won the tour de france last year now he's testing them over the top 49 seconds gap they're now going for that time bonus oh and look at that roughly she's gonna get the time bonus here because the second prize and third prize rocket could get two seconds that's not it oh wait for it wrongly she's packing a punch at the end oh steady on there now i tell you what oh he might well he didn't keep the line there he might get penalized for that but that's up to the judges fault he looked the wrong way luckily saved it that was almost a disaster oh my goodness me you're how right you were i'm not sure yes they they apologize to one another there they're shaking hands it wasn't intended they both come from slovenia just different teams and that there's no doubt hershey gets the eight seconds just a second of five seconds bonus for roglic who will now be the leader on the road of the tour and that acceleration and aggression for the second place on that climb has brought the pursuers just 18 seconds behind mark hershey here's adam yates a minute so he's 45 seconds and change behind the group led by primo's roguelike and bernal here's our loan leader mark hirschi holding on to a very slight advantage he's a fantastic descender but the riders behind are racing for the yellow jersey and the stage glory it's going to be very tough for him to hold off the pursuers and this ride is settling into his time trialling mode he's been in the lead almost the whole day today apart from the very first small climb of the day he's won everything on offer caruso in the orange and red and miguel angel lopez a pretty solid descent by those two riders to come back into the pursuing group containing quintana and bardet chasing bernal and primos roglich who are chasing this man holding on to 13 seconds even if he does get caught by these riders mikhail landa also their number 61. flick of the elbows a little bit of an obstacle everybody's through there safely look at those riders in the first chase on the road roglic bernal pogarcha and lander for the famous names in the current crop of top cyclists it's a long time bob since we've seen a pursuit like this over the mountains of the pyrenees so steep the mari blanc and that it did split the the leaders in just the last couple of hundred meters mark here she and he's holding on to a slim lead that's going to go right down to the white arrow this group might catch here she after all but here she still might be able to win the stage that would be unbelievable phil it's absolutely remarkable now three miles left to ride for these chases the gap 26 second and normally hershey would have no chance but i don't know how much energy these riders have got left across that void they're saying 12 seconds now and the lonely road ahead and he's looking over for the first time i've seen him do that that's not a good sign when you look back he's got to the three kilometer marker and there's the three kilometer marker for the chasing four riders and they are being pursued in turn by a very very big group of riders who want their lost time back so it really is a pursuit over these last kilometers to the finish and they're going to come on him here sadly eight seconds the gap now the gap to the finish is 1.3 miles two kilometers to the finishing line for the pursuers it looks a lot further from the helicopter let's keep it up there the group led by rigoberto iran they can see their quarry but they can't quite close the gap tarepogacha and the white jersey with the red highlights from uae is just about to get onto the wheel of mark hershey in a straight drag ways i think here she's the fastest amongst these five men but he's been out in front throughout all these mountains throughout the day he still has a chance to win they are caught one mile from the finish the leader is back in his place but because the others are racing for time they are not going to shatter box to who wins the day they are going to continue to race flat out and you're right buff hershey could take advantage of this 10 seconds for the first man over the line that's why they want to win it six for second four for third and looking to rock glitch in the yellow jersey here we'll look for the win project in the white jersey red band taking a drink now he's swung off the front they put the leader elect here in pretty much rodriguez the only man to have ever won in lawrence where we're going a little thick of the arm saying to uh in fact the other rider um landlord lander can't come through that nobody wants to come through now they're going to give away the seconds they're gaining and all the time at the back of the race here hershey without doubt the hero of the day is watching and waiting he's gonna go for the spin for sure roglidge only wants time he's not thinking of the win necessarily every second could count for victory in paris still two weeks away today as lander sits behind land is going to go for the spring here goes erchie here she exhausts the advantage to land orlando's going to give him a dig pogchaka tries to get on his back wheel here she's going clear oh my goodness me is he gonna hang on for the victory because of the run by teddy projector over the top and on the line justice was not done but what a great great win for pogica okay gets a stage win i believe it was roguelist second here's the chase led by balcomolema about 10 seconds behind the stage winner tede pogacha aggressive yesterday had lost time two days ago in the crosswinds and he continues to claw his way back up towards the top of the overall table a long ways down adam yates a very tough last couple of kilometers on that final climb of the day and then a bitter pursuit of the vanishing yellow jersey that will go to the shoulders of primo's road glitch slovenia if i'm not mistaken first and second on the stage and into the yellow jersey and that's the second time that's happened this tour a country that only has two great cyclists and they're both here and the spin for the line here and as they come in the yellow jersey of adam yates fourth in that spit let's have a look at the stage results and they were given the same time because they all crossed the line together without daylight between them at roglic second hershey a brilliant third nearly got the win burnout fourth last year's winner of the tour mikhail has shown his return to good form there in fifth place this is how it stands as they go for a day off tomorrow roglic has now opened the lead from three seconds behind to 21 seconds in front of last year's winner aegon bernal guillermo town retains his third place remains a big threat from france romamba day the other frenchman came into the force yesterday retained a fourth place so it is looking extremely good pogba char has come up into seventh place here now 44 seconds most of that time he has lost with that mechanical problem he had a couple of days ago yates is down to eighth place now at a minute 02. richie port had a good day he's got to feed two more children now he had a his wife had birth this week he's up to 11th henry class down to 12 there so it is indeed a great result for slovenia they have two great cyclists and for the first time they're both in the tour de france and they're right in the mix [Music] you

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Length: 20min 46sec (1246 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 06 2020