Euskaraz irakurri: Michael Woods garaile Puy de Dôme mendatean, eta Pogacarrek 8 second kendu dizkio Vingegaard leader

the canadian Michael Woods (Israel – Premier Tech) prevailed this Sunday in the ninth stage of the Tour de Franceof 182.4 kilometers Leaving from Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat and aiming at the mythical Puy de Domeafter to overcome, with 500 meters to go, the American Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar)who led almost the entire ascent.

A day marked in red for the battle of the Puy de Dôme, appointment of favorites and setting for each one to explain their intentions. To the outskirts of the mythical volcano a group of 14 runners they defied the heat to go on the run and reach unprecedented income in this Tour, longer than 10-15 minutes. In the expedition two Spaniards, Gorka Izagirre and David de la Cruz.

The escape was altered 47 km from the finish line with the attack of the American from Movistar Matteo Jorgenson. The Californian began to climb alone and held on until the 500-meter banner to the finish line. On the tremendous final wall of the port of Puy de Dôme, with a 11.7% average slopethe Canadian hunted the American Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar)escaped from 40 kilometers before, to launch for an epic victory.

Thus, he crossed the finish line in a time of 4:19:4128 seconds ahead of the Frenchman Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and 35 from the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious)who also overcame a Jorgenson who fainted in the last two kilometers.

The 36-year-old cyclist from Israel thus achieved his most prestigious victory, after having won two stages in the Tour of Spain.

In the fight for the overall, the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar cut 8 seconds to the Dane Jonas Vingegaard after attacking him with half a kilometer to go to the finish line and is now 17 seconds behind the yellow jersey.

In the fight for third place, the Spanish carlos rodriguez shaved 14 seconds off the Australian Jai Hindleywho occupies the last step of the provisional podium with an income of 1:44 minutes.

The general candidates arrived more than six minutes late on the escape, in which Woods prevailed.

9TH STAGE

stage classification

1 – WOODS Michael (Israel) 4:19:41

2 – LATOUR Pierre (TotalEnergies) + 0:28

3 – MOHORIC Matej (Bahrain) + 0:35

4 – JORGENSON Matteo (Movistar) + 0:36

5 – BERTHET Clement (AG2R) + 0:55

6 – POWLESS Neilson (EF) + 1:23

7 – LUTSENKO Alexey (Astana) + 1:39

8 – GREGAARD ​​Jonas (One-X) + 1:58

9 – BURGAUDEAU Mathieu (TotalEnergies) + 2:16

10 – OF THE CROSS David (Astana) + 2:34

11 – IZAGIRRE Gorka (Movistar) + 4:57

General ranking

1 – VINGEGAARD ​​Jonas (Jumbo) 38:37:46

2 – POGACAR Tadej (UAE) + 0:17

3 – HINDLEY Jai (BORA) + 2:40

4 – RODRIGUEZ Carlos (INEOS) + 4:22

5 – Adam YACHTS (UAE) + 4:39

6 – YACHTS Simon (Jayco) + 4:44

7 – PIDCOCK Thomas (INEOS) + 5:26

8 – GAUDU David (FDJ) + 6:01

9 – KUSS Sepp (Jumbo) + 6:45

10 – BARDET Romain (dsm) + 6:58

11 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain) + 7:37

Source: Eitb

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