All three Sky teammates dropped back to help bring the yellow jersey back up.Quintana and Porte kept the pace down in their group, as Aru looked around to see why they didn't share the lead work. Thomas had to leave with a broken collarbone.The descent splintered both the lead group and the chasing field. Watch live races and get the Tour de France schedule, stage results and more on NBCSports.com. The rest of the previous lead group came over about a minute later, with the Froome group about three and a half minutes down.There was only a very short descent before the day's final challenge. Froome, Urán, Porte, AG2R's Romain Bardet, Quick-Step Floors' Dan Martin and Astana's Fabio Aru and Jakob Fuglsang comprised the small group of overall contenders in pursuit, as both Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) lost touch on the hors-categorie gradients. They were only 1:30 behind Barguil at this point, with only Froome, Aru, Quintana, Uran, Bardet and Dan Martin left in the group.Attack followed attack, with Froome constantly countering. They quickly built up a one minute gap. They caught up again,Froome led the little group up towards Barguil, who had 35 seconds in hand with 1 km to the summit. Laissac-Severac 'Eglise - Le Puy-en-Velay Froome ended up in a group of about 20, with only one helper. They looked relatively content to leave the breakaway to contest the stage win after a tough day of racing on Saturday.Knowing they were safe from the peloton, riders began attacking each other, and on 45km to go, Lukas Postlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) the first to make a move stick, splitting the group in two with his acceleration. At 3:30 back, those sprinter still in the peloton were quietly falling back. Both Mori and Gesink abandoned the race.As in the previous stage, a large group got away, this time about 7 km into the stage. Find out the latest news, stage reports, race scores and expert analysis from the 2017 Tour de France Stage 9. Some of those who had earlier been dropped caught up again on the flat.Sunweb's ten Dam pulled the lead group up the climb. Please refresh the page and try again.Cyclingnews is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. 3 Col de Berentin (4.1 km, 6.1 per cent).As expected, the attacks started from the moment the flag dropped, with Lotto-Soudal's Tim Wellens to the first to go. However, a number of riders in the select group of overall favourites appeared to disagree with Aru's decision to put pressure on the yellow jersey while he was dealing with mechanical trouble. He closed down Barguil as the road flattened out and then sped past to push on solo as Barguil drifted back to the yellow jersey group. Barguil and Benoot were along at the front. The field came over 1:49 down.There were 38 riders in the group: Jan Bakelants, Axel Domont and Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R-La Mondiale), Jesus Herrada and Carlos Betancur (Movistar), Bauke Mollema and Jarlinson Pantano (Trek-Segafredo), Alessandro De Marchi and Amaël Moinard (BMC), Bakhtiar Kozhatayev and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Kristjian Durasek and Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE), Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), Michael Albasini (Orica-Scott), Zdenek Stybar (Quick-Step Floors), Pawel Poljanski (Bora-Hansgrohe), Robert Kiserlovski and Tiago Machado (Katusha-Alpecin), Thomas De Gendt, Tony Gallopin and Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Michael Matthews, Nikias Arndt, Warren Barguil, Simon Geschke and Laurens ten Dam (Sunweb), Nicolas Edet and Dani Navarro (Cofidis), Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo), Thomas Voeckler (Direct Energie), Pierre Rolland and Dylan Van Baarle (Cannondale-Drapac), Javier Moreno (Bahrain-Merida), and Brice Feillu, Pierre-Luc Périchon and Eduardo Sepulveda (Fortuneo-Oscaro).Sepulveda and Stake Laengen crashed on the descent, and the lead group shrank as riders were unable to keep up with the high pace being set by De Gendt and ten Dam.
Froome keeps yellow jersey as Porte and Thomas crash outUrán led a select group of climbers across the line after Barguil, the last survivor of the early breakaway, was swept up on the run-in to the line. The 2020 Tour de France is 23 days long. The Froome group was nearly seven minutes back.Crash followed crash on the fast and wet descent. 2 Cote es Neyrolles (3.2 km, 7.2 per cent), followed almost immediately by the cat.
Bardet couldn't quite fend off his pursuing rivals in the closing kilometres, however, setting up a sprint.Fuglsang led the group into the sprint, but Urán came around on his right with 200 metres to go. From there, it was a descent to the line in Brioude – Romain Bardet’s birthplace.It took a while for a breakaway to settle, during which time Alessandro De Marchi (CCC Team) crashed and was taken away in an ambulance, just a day after he joined Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) in the A 15-man breakaway eventually formed, with Ineos and Groupama-FDJ the only GC teams who failed to post a rider to the front. Porte tried again, only to spark an attack by Froome. 189.5km