Woods miraculously won the ninth stage of the 2023 Tour de France.
After 35 years, Mont Dom has returned to the Tour de France, a unique mountain that carries the history of the legend of the Tour de France.
At the beginning of the competition, after some pulling, a relatively large breakthrough group soon formed. These include Jorgensen, Mohorich, polka dot shirt Boris, Latour and Woods, who is a strong climber. The race was more than 60 kilometers from the finish line, with a difference of about 13 minutes between the main group and the breakout group, and the main group obviously gave up the competition for the stage championship. A stage championship battle began in the breakthrough group of 14.
After some intense pulling, Jorgensen broke out on his own 48 kilometers from the finish line, and in the last 5 kilometers to the steepest of the Dom Mountains, he was more than 1 minute ahead of the first catch-up group and more than 2 minutes ahead of the second catch-up group. But the last 5 kilometers of Mount Dom were too difficult, and the riders climbed 7% or 8% of the climbs, and they could see a wall-like Mount Dom towering in front of the road. Woods and Latour chased all the way through steep slopes from the second catch-up group, catching Mohoric of the first catch-up group in the last 1 kilometer or so, and Woods caught up with Jorgensen, who broke through nearly 50 kilometers alone, in the last 500 meters, and then won the championship solo. Latour second, Mohoric third. Jorgensen was fourth, and won the Daring Award. And Boris took away the climb point points on the way, expanding the climb point point advantage.
In the main group, Jumbo controlled the court all the way, because Wenger Gauard obviously did not have the advantage in the finish sprint, so he was willing to give up the stage championship, and the breakout group once reached a 16-minute gap. Finally, Mount Dom climbed, and Cus led the horse at the last moment, but today Cus was not in as good shape as the previous days, before he led the horse, Wengegao, Pogacha, Simon Yatez, Rodriguez, and even Pidcock were together, Hindley was not far behind, and after a stalemate among several main players for a while, Simon Yates took the lead in attacking, but there was no killing. Pogača launched the attack in the last 1.5 kilometers, only Wengegao barely followed, but soon Wengegao could not hold out. In the end, Pogača crossed the line eight seconds ahead of Wenger. The other main players also crossed the line, but did not open up much of a gap.
Pogača fought back after several stages to reduce the gap between him and Wenger from 53 seconds to 17 seconds. Tomorrow is a day off, but there are still several mountains waiting for riders to conquer in the second week.
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