With the Tour de France's ninth stage and its third mountain test to the Puy de Dôme on Sunday came another blow from Tadej Pogačar in the battle for the yellow jersey. The Slovenian grabbed back eight seconds from race leader Jonas Vingegaard having already taken back 28 on Cauterets earlier in the week.
Despite the time loss, and the narrowing of Vingegaard's advantage to 17 seconds heading into Monday's rest day, the line from his Jumbo-Visma team after the stage was that "We're still on track".
