2010 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10#Stage 9

The 9th stage of the Tour de France 2010 on July 13, led after the first day of rest over 204.5 km from Morzine -Avoriaz to Saint -Jean -de- Maurienne. On this mountain stage, there were two intermediate sprints as well as with the Col de la Madeleine, the first mountain stage of the honorary category of this tour, the first two climbs a mountain stage of the 2nd and 4th category. After the tasks of Simon Gerrans, Vladimir Karpez, Roger Kluge and Fabio Felline still 182 of the 198 registered participants were at the start.

Race course

The real start to this long stage in the Alps was given at 11:36 clock. Sylvain Chavanel ventured on the first kilometers of the first attack, the others followed, in which Jens Voigt and Damiano Cunego were there. Finally, an eleven-member group, in addition to Voigt, among others Christophe Moreau, Jérôme Pineau, and Thor Hushovd were represented was formed. Behind it formed a three-man chase group. Pineau secured the first small mountain classification and Hushovd the first sprint. Markus Eibegger was meanwhile on the race.

In the ascent to the Col de la Colombière David Millar had to have been torn down. As a little more later drivers had to be demolished, already formed the Gruppetto. The projection of the top group in front of the box that was over three minutes. In the field Alexander Vinokourov attacked, around which a second chase group formed, in turn Chavanel and Damiano Cunego were. However, the BMC Racing Team was again close the gap. In the top group Hushovd crashed and thus lost the connection to the group, and dropped back into the field. John also had Fröhlinger meantime demolish, which there were only nine riders in the leading group. Cungego grabbed accompanied by Kevin Seeldraeyers and Sergio Paulinho on again and went on his way to reach the first chase group, which consisted only of Yaroslav Popovych and Robert Hunter. Clean Taaramäe caught up with this. Moreau attacked on the mountain classification and winning this before Pineau. Cunego and Taaramäe rose up the pursuit of the lead group and reached finally, also Fröhlinger again found port, which is the top group grew to twelve drivers.

On the third climb of the day won again Pineau and the projection of the group grew to over five minutes. The fourth mountain stage won Pineau and on the flat road to the mountain, the projection of the group rose after a temporary decline over six minutes before the calmer now moving peloton. José Iván Gutiérrez crossed first the last sprint of the day, was in but not sprinting.

In the ascent to the Col de la Madeleine, some drivers the top group lost the connection. Also in the favorite group has now moved back sharper pace by working from team Saxo Bank, so many riders lost contact. Alexander Vinokourov attacked again and managed to get away. In the top group also Voigt has now been suspended, so that only five drivers were represented. The Favorites group also the former yellow jersey Cadel Evans could not follow because of a broken elbow and fell back. In the top group Moreau had to be demolished. Andy Schleck attacked several times and only Alberto Contador was able to follow him. The duo then took turns in leading work from and extended his lead on the other favorites from. The back fallen out of the top group Voigt was briefly later overtaken by both drivers and then made until shortly before the summit pace for Schleck. At the forefront Anthony Charteau attacked on the mountain classification and won it. Thus, he took over the mountain jersey Pineau, since both drivers now have the same score, but Charteau was placed in the overall standings ahead. Schleck and Contador in sixth seventh drove with only just over two minutes behind the leading group on the summit. Samuel Sánchez followed half a minute later.

On the descent, Schleck and Contador went on to Moreau, who still lay before them. Damien Monier crashed on the descent, but was able to continue. The trio Schleck shortened during the descent the gap to the lead group becoming more and caught up with her just before the finish. The sprint finally won Sandy Casar. Evans, who nearly ten minutes behind was still on the lead group on the Col de la Madeleine was able to reduce its deficit to around eight minutes. But through this large backlog he lost the yellow jersey and fell back to 18th place in the overall standings. David Millar, who had to cover almost the entire route as a soloist, could still save almost residue within the waiting time to the finish with just under 43 minutes.

Sprint

Second intermediate sprint in La Bathie ( 135.5 km ) ( 375 m)

Destination in Saint -Jean -de- Maurienne ( 204.5 km ) ( 552 m)

Climbs

Côte de Châtillon, Category 4 ( 18.5 km ) ( 735 m; 2.1 km at 3.9 %)

Col de la Colombière, Category 1 ( 46 km ) (1618 m; 16.5 km at 6.7 %)

Col des Aravis, category 2 ( 71 km; 1487 m; 7.6 km à 5,9 %)

Col des Saisies, category 1 ( 97 km ) ( 1660 m; 14.4 km at 5.1 %)

Col de la Madeleine, honorary category ( 172.5 km; 2000 m, 25.5 km à 6,2 %)

Tasks

035 - Simon Gerrans (Sky ): Not competing in the National Stage
071 - Vladimir Karpez ( Katyusha ): Not competing in the National stage
144 - Roger Kluge ( Milram ): Not competing in the National stage
215 - Markus Eibegger ( Footon - Servetto ): task during the stage
216 - Fabio Felline ( Footon - Servetto ): Not competing in the National stage

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