This week (starting on Tuesday after the first rest day) will probably be the harder of all stages blocks.

First we come back to the Navarese Pyrenees, but then we travel westwards again, along the Atlantic coast, or more exactly for the climbs, along the Cantabrian range. Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias and Galicia will be visited in order.

Standings after stage 9

General

  1. T. Træen 🇳🇴 Bahrain
  2. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 37″
  3. J. Almeida 🇵🇹 UAE – 1′15″
  4. T. Pidcock 🇬🇧 Q36.5 – 1′35″
  5. F. Gall 🇨🇭 Décathlon – 2′14″
  6. G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 2′42″
  7. L. Fortunato 🇮🇹 Astana – 2′47″
  8. M. Jorgenson 🇺🇸 Visma – 2′49″
  9. J. Hindley 🇦🇺 Bora – 2′53″
  10. G. Pellizzari 🇮🇹 Bora – 2′53″
  11. E. Bernal 🇨🇴 Ineos – 2′57″ and then 6 others riders before 4′30″

Points

  1. M. Pedersen 🇩🇰 Lidl-trek – 120 pts
  2. E. Vernon 🇬🇧 IPT – 111 pts
  3. J. Philipsen 🇧🇪 Alpecin – 105 pts
  4. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 100 pts
  5. G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 88 pts
  6. D. Gaudu 🇫🇷 FDJ – 62 pts

NB : only Ciccone and Vingegaard swapped places since we arrived in Spain, otherwise the members and order of top-6 is the same as it was.

Mountain

  1. J. Vine 🇦🇺 UAE – 34 pts
  2. L. Vervaeke 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS – 23 pts
  3. J. Ayuso 🇪🇸 UAE – 20 pts
  4. S. Quinn 🇺🇸 EF – 18 pts
  5. J. Nicolau 🇪🇸 Caja Rural – 16 pts
  6. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 15 pts

Teams (rounded)

  1. UAE 🇳🇱
  2. Visma – 6′30″
  3. Astana – 14′15″
  4. Soudal-QS – 21′30″
  5. Décathlon – 25′45″
  • Deschanel2017OPM
    1·
    1 month ago

    I don’t understand why it is apparently considered cancelled (technically speaking, there was no neutralisation during the race, except perhaps the last 3 km, but what they did is more like a course modification). They went through all the GPM and through the Intermediate Sprint all right, and they went to the displaced finish line (on the 3 km sign, which per UCI rule 2.6.027bis is always provided with a timing device).

    I hope that they will come to their senses and at least reinstate all the GPM and I.S. points.

    When they stopped the race in the Alps on the Tour of France 2019, it wasn’t planned like here (where they had over 30 km to decide, inform riders and organise themselves), and they retroactively decided that the end had been on a mountain pass. So when riders passed said mountain pass, they didn’t know yet that it would be considered the finish line. After the stage, commissars of course kept all GPM and I.S. points scored until there. They even reconstructed (from videos, I think) the timings at this mountain pass which of course was devoid of timing devices. They gave no victory and final points because riders didn’t know that the end was on this mountain pass, which seems OK. It all made sense; even though I would have preferred they set the new finish at the bottom of the pass, as riders would have known it in advance (it could have been understandable to cancel timing gaps too).

    But in Portugal in Februrary, they already cancelled the results of the first stage of the Tour of Algarve. Just because many riders took the wrong way for the final sprint, not only they cancelled the stage victory, but they also tore all the GPM and I.S. points from the breakaway who had worked all day to gather them!

    Today, it looks like they will apply the same stupid decisions. Except that they intend to record the timing gaps. Which may be seen as even weirder (keeping a result established in perturbed/modified conditions while cancelling results established in normal conditions). And of course totally unfair to guys like Pedersen and Nicolau who worked very hard to score points before anything happened. But according to UCI rules (2.2.029), commissars can basically do anything they fancy.

    • Deschanel2017OPM
      1·
      1 month ago

      Ah! They have reinstated all GPM and I.S. points!

      Fine. So the only missing things are related to the finish: no finish ranking, therefore no stage winner, no points for points classification on the finish, no UCI points.

      I guess that’s OK now. It is just a bit weird to count timing gaps on the finish but no ranking. Let’s say that it was made so that there wouldn’t be a sprint for ranking on a finish that was not prepared for that.