Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Brilliance from Barguil, single-speed sprinting by Uran, sickening crash for Porte – stage 9 had everything and more

Kwiatkowski Racing Richie Porte Rigoberto Uran Team Sky Tour de France 2017

Uran Uran: hungry like the wolf

Dave Brailsford tells Kwiatowski how much work he’ll be doing today… 

Taylor Phinney prepares for a crazy day in the saddle

Calm before the storm

Alberto Contador suffers on the Mont du Chat

Coming through: packed roads on the way to Chambery

Florian Sénéchal, top banana?

Second day in a row of brilliant riding from Warren Barguil

Richie Porte sitting pretty before a horrible crash on the descent. Tour over for the unfortunate Australian

The only TV in town

They avoided the indignity of the broom wagon but could not escape the time cut: FdJ lost half their team in one day, including Arnaud Demare

Matteo Trentin was another unfortunate victim of the timekeeper’s axe. Eight riders, including Juraj Sagan, were eliminated

 

Tour de France collection, including art prints by Marshall Kappel

 

 

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Kwiatkowski Racing Richie Porte Rigoberto Uran Team Sky Tour de France 2017

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