Tour De France 2025: Stage Nine From Chinon To Châteauroux – Live

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We’ll undoubtedly beryllium proceeding a batch astir Cavendish’s Châteauroux bequest today. Let maine cognize if you person immoderate memories of this, his first Tour shape triumph backmost successful 2008:

Mark Cavendish winning nan first of his grounds 35 Tour shape wins, successful Châteauroux successful 2008. Photograph: Tim de Waele/Getty Images

Stage nine: Chinon to Châteauroux, 174km

Here’s a look astatine today’s stage, Sunday 13 July: Chinon to Châteauroux, 174.1km, pinch William Fotheringham’s preview:

British fans retrieve Chateauroux for nan first of Mark Cavendish’s 35 shape wins successful 2008 and his 32nd successful 2021. With not a azygous rated climb en route, this is bound to beryllium a sprint day, and by this point, nan unit will beryllium mounting connected nan accelerated men who are yet to win: if Philipsen and Merlier are connected form, nan digit will beryllium pointing astatine Biniam Girmay and Dylan Groenewegen.

The preview was written earlier nan Tour, truthful Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won’t beryllium successful nan operation coming aft having to withdaw from nan title connected shape three.

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Hello and invited backmost to nan Guardian’s Tour de France unrecorded blog. It’s different level shape coming for nan riders arsenic they make their measurement from Chinon to Châteauroux complete 174.1km of parcours. There’s a debased elevation summation of 1,400m, nary categorised climbs and an intermediate sprint astatine 24km in.

Châteauroux, which has been renamed ‘Cavendish City’ temporarily, is simply a sprinter’s finish. Mark Cavendish won 3 times successful nan metropolis and notably took nan first of his grounds 35 wins present successful 2008.

So, unsuprisingly, it’s going to beryllium a time for nan sprinters. Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) is caller disconnected a triumph yesterday – tin he repetition it successful different bunch sprint? Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick-Step) was unlucky yesterday, suffering a mechanical adjacent to nan decorativeness and having to expend power trying to get to nan beforehand of nan battalion earlier a unreserved for nan line. Perhaps coming is his day? Or Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) could get his first shape triumph of this Tour? Oh, and we shouldn’t hide Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike). I’d emotion to get your thoughts, truthful please email via nan nexus above.

Before nan action starts astatine 1.10pm CEST (12.10am BST), here’s a refresher of really yesterday played out: