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
    2·
    1 个月前

    Unexpected Pedersen Show today again 😀

    Since we arrived in Spain, UAE won 5 stages out of 7… 2 times Ayuso, 2 times Vine and 1 Team Time Trial. Even when there is no Pogatchar and their leader hasn’t got the upper hand on GC, they are a pain in the ass.

    If you add Visma: since the beginning UAE+Visma won 7 stages out of 11 (64%).

    Out of the 4 remaining stages, 2 were won by Philipsen, and the other 2 saw winners from outer space: a Ben Turner who starts a career of sprinter at age 26, and foremost a living-dead Gaudu who beats both Pedersen and Vingegaard on a super fast punchy climb.

    Burgos has now lost half of the team, with the withdrawal of Fernandez (he must have been in a breakaway, perhaps in Italy, I remember his first name ‘Sinuhé’ as I had never met it before).

    • EvilCartyen@feddit.dkM
      2·
      1 个月前

      Agreed, UAE are really annoying and greedy. At least we can often count on them self-sabotaging and with Ayuso on the way out they will have one less star to dominate with.

      • Deschanel2017OPM
        2·
        1 个月前

        The other problem is that when it is not UAE, it is Visma. Halfway into the Tour of Britain, Visma already won 3 stages out of 3… There isn’t much left for the other World-Teams. And good luck for the Pro-Teams on a class .Pro race, where there are 9 Word-Teams on the startlist (+ a couple of Pro-Teams which have World-Teams budgets)…

        Same thing on the Female side on the ‘Simac’ race (WT): 3 stages out of 3 for the lone Wiebes…

          • Deschanel2017OPM
            1·
            1 个月前

            Now 24 (4/4 stages).

            And +1 for UAE too. 6 Spanish stages out of 8.

            Luckily, Visma had no true puncher today on the Tour of Britain!