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Tour de France 2023: Pogacar closes on yellow on Puy de Dôme as Woods wins stage nine – as it happened

Tadej Pogacar leaves Jonas Vingegaard in the yellow jersey trailing in the distance on the Puy de Dôme
Tadej Pogacar leaves Jonas Vingegaard trailing in the distance on the Puy de Dôme to cut his rival’s overall lead by eight seconds on stage nine of the Tour de France. Photograph: David Ramos/Getty Images

Stage nine report

Right, and on these bombshells, that’s us done on an immense day of racing (and a pretty immense day of sport in general), which had all manner of narratives. The principal ones being Tadej Pogacar laying down the gauntlet to Jonas Vingegaard, who might just be relieved that his rival took only eight seconds off him at the end. And then there was heartache for Matteo Jorgenson who rode so boldly and so well before the superior climbing smarts of Michael Woods landed him a memorable stage win.

Jeremy Whittle’s stage report will be up very shortly. Thanks for your company and comments. Bye.

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