Tadej Pogacar goes BEAST MODE on Crazy Gravel Stage | Tour de France 2024 Stage 9

Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Tour de France 2024 Stage 9

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the most exciting stage of the Twitter France opening week pagat and Remco throwing Haymakers at the other GC contenders this was the Fe anticipated gravel stage 14 sectors over 200 km over 30 km of gravel the hilliest part of the course was in the middle and then the last 50ks were flat into a bit of a headwind huge opportunity for world champion mat Vanderpool as well as multiple times St bianc winner T pagach the Breakaway formation hard fought as expected this was like Peru Bay this was from start to finish one of the best stages I’ve ever watched break goes first sector Bora doing a good job blocking it up and you can see if you’re at the back if you’re out of position into these gravel sectors you can say good night zangler and Aron Bru PE hel and pitock try to bridge across to the Breakaway that had formed with Lano Romo G other strong Riders perhaps Romo and lascano should have waited and not pull when Aron baru was dangling off the back with zangler but anyway moar three in the break van Hills Tes in there Palace and EF probably did it a bit smarter they dropped Palace back to pull heia across to that Breakaway and eventually it was formed super strong lenko all these rers these Shas tats though were informative look at ballerini in sector 2 look at his back wheel fishtailing this group would never make it but that was informative that visma they’re on the correct side you a enter on the Deep gravel side and T paga has to take evasive action quickly moves over to the right hand side in front of I think Carlos Rodriguez and visma shred this peleton 131 case to go second sector if you got stuck on the left side of this gravel all over Rider split behind groups everywhere B lemon pacing whilst Primos roit is the biggest name to miss it AO also caught behind pagach Rodriguez rco vingard they will make in front but for Bora the chase it looked like it was going okay but then quickstep and inos put Turner and Moscone kman was also pacing hindley blows up and suddenly RIT has to panic close the gap himself we were wondering how is that Gap going down so quickly all of a sudden the answer was brimal rage having to close it himself was that for boing for the future next hilly sectors UAE take over we’ve seen what you can do Vis Malisa bike we can go one better well and starts smashing and then disaster strikes for viz molisa bike vingard looks down at his bike or his rear wheel he’s had a flat quickly gets on the radio whilst UAE are sending and you can see there’s gaps and the tail is that Kristoff leaport has dropped back on the right hand side that means the big boss has had a problem luckily for him there’s a rider exactly his and my size in the team Yan tratnik and that ain’t his bike you can see see the name on it and the number tratnik given his bike to vingard if he wasn’t there to do that could have been minutes behind for vingard cuz it was still a big peleton at that moment I had no idea where the cars were next sector pagat I don’t know if this was Instinct wanting to be in front for a fast descent he gets told on the radio you’re in front I’ve let your wheel go and the Israel Rider just behind him he’s not as confident on The Descent and Pacha by the way he attacked in one stred this year with a descent attack and maybe this is that again maybe he just wanted to be in front for the super fast descent on the narrow roads into the town and suddenly he’s got a gap remu aapo reacts vingard is not in his wheel it’s Jorgenson and leaport and leap’s thinking hold on we don’t have the right man in this group pagat and rco start relaying and inos save the day for Rodriguez and vingar so Pat is gone splits are everywhere vingar on the wrong bar and now we have the longest hardest uphill sector of the day and another man jumps rco aole joins the party and no one reacts open space comes to the left vingard has to sit down on the saddle is Pacha going to counter it doesn’t come uphill at that moment aan aole like on rute looks super strong over the top pataa then counters on the flatter section of the gravel after woods but he’s got a familiar man in his wheel who was nagging his wheel all day just about Ving yard going across to aaol and with 76 K to go the three big favorites for this race are ahead of RIT and vingard refuses to pull he Els to wait for his teammates behind much to Remco Evena Paul’s annoyance they get across to the breakway which is a disaster if you’re a break Rider the last thing you want is GC Riders joining you because everyone else is going to chase them so they immediately Counterattack rco sits up and it’s like they were never there in the break the same bre goes ahead up the road next sector we see Romo having trouble in the gravel Remco enters in deep position compared to visma and UAE and that becomes a problem you can see them running wide in that corner there’s deep gravel see how deep it is where Remco I’m not sure if he crashed or just caught up luckily for him Vima were kind of in defensive mode and vanat was riding Tempo on the front and rco was able to come back easily he was also one of the strongest riders in the race rco so he would have come back anyway but it was Counterattack time if the riders in the GC group wanted to win the stage like vandol and B who and Matthews had been sitting in it was their time to go unfortunately for them they brought Fang and Kosta and they got teammates up the road so they sit on the back they got Healey and G up the front and so that really never gets too close to the Breakaway the last few flat sectors paga sensus weakness in vingard in rogl in everybody and maybe even wants to go for the stage well leads him out then leaport and vingard go over the top of him that prompts a pretty quick reaction from pagat who attacks into deep gravel again on the right hand side look at vard’s back wheel it starts to Buck all over the place and he cannot follow not only T Pacha but his teammates for the second time today leaport looks around and sees the right man is not on his wheel Jorgenson goes across to paga leaport begins to bring vingard across and then goes on the radio and says I’m done Mato jensson time for you to drop back Jorgenson drops back and then just about nightmare scenario T paga going clear up the road what an attack from him all day uphill on the flatter sections on the Deep gravel going for it dropping anybody every time he wanted just about he’s brought back by Mato jensson and again vimma Lisa bike won’t relay in the Breakaway they begin to counter each other G and sturen with the experience times it right goes clear with no one reacting I thought he gone up the road and what a stage from a GC perspective Pacha goes again Remco counters the big guns attacking vingard on the ropes trying to defend Pacha going hell for leather unbelievable stage and like I said normally the group twos when someone so strong clear up the road they begin to play but G attacking and Healey countering in effect brought back asper sturen and with 900 M to go he must have been very surprised and disappointed to see suddenly he’d been caught Healey goes Aon Bru and turis jocking for his wheel G jumps early turis picks the right wheel comes out of it and toal eny with their best Rider second in San Romo before take their first tour to France stage in seven years huge win for tus head of peock G AR bril lenko Romo Stan B and Michael Matthews GC somehow largely unchanged despite the top five knocking lumps out of each other all stage hope you enjoy the video and I’ll see you with the recap of stage 10 on Tuesday until then ciao