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
- T. Træen 🇳🇴 Bahrain
- J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 37″
- J. Almeida 🇵🇹 UAE – 1′15″
- T. Pidcock 🇬🇧 Q36.5 – 1′35″
- F. Gall 🇨🇭 Décathlon – 2′14″
- G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 2′42″
- L. Fortunato 🇮🇹 Astana – 2′47″
- M. Jorgenson 🇺🇸 Visma – 2′49″
- J. Hindley 🇦🇺 Bora – 2′53″
- G. Pellizzari 🇮🇹 Bora – 2′53″
- E. Bernal 🇨🇴 Ineos – 2′57″ and then 6 others riders before 4′30″
Points
- M. Pedersen 🇩🇰 Lidl-trek – 120 pts
- E. Vernon 🇬🇧 IPT – 111 pts
- J. Philipsen 🇧🇪 Alpecin – 105 pts
- J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 100 pts
- G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 88 pts
- 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
- J. Vine 🇦🇺 UAE – 34 pts
- L. Vervaeke 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS – 23 pts
- J. Ayuso 🇪🇸 UAE – 20 pts
- S. Quinn 🇺🇸 EF – 18 pts
- J. Nicolau 🇪🇸 Caja Rural – 16 pts
- J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 15 pts
Teams (rounded)
- UAE 🇳🇱
- Visma – 6′30″
- Astana – 14′15″
- Soudal-QS – 21′30″
- Décathlon – 25′45″
Gaudu’s Padun moment lasted only 2 days. Well, by nature, Padun moments do last 2 days 😀 He seems back for good to his 2025 level and his Tour de l’Ain performances: today, he finished 20 minutes behind (juste before the good old Viviani) and I heard he was already dropped by the peloton way before the small 3rd cat climb, in one of the even smaller 5% climbs.