Live Tour: Chaos and Falls on Tour de France Pavements

Follow the stage from 12:35 via our liveticker, with a full written commentary.

The Roompot-Dutch Lottery team manager is sitting in front of the tube from start to finish. "It's the queen's ride to the first part of the Tour." A scene I was looking forward to with great anticipation. "

The profile of the ninth stage of the Tour de France

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The peloton gets far more paved for the time than the last two times that lap of a paved ride planned. In 2014, we opted for six tracks (totaling 13.3 kilometers), in 2015 for nine tracks (15.4 kilometers in total).

"But this year the drivers are waiting for a mini-Paris-Roubaix, with only 15 paved strips!" In total, the pilots bounced back over 22 kilometers through De Hel . hui, your classification may be just shit. "

Boogerd is waiting for Tom Dumoulin to hurt some competitors. "He must be able to do that, just like Vincenzo Nibali, who has laid a solid foundation for his victory in 2014 with Lieuwe Westra."

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Terpstra: "No return for this step" [19659012] In addition He is with Niki Terpstra a former winner of Paris-Roubaix at the start, who could provide a third Dutch victory in a row, after the two sprint victories of Dylan Groenewegen. "With Niki back in the Tour, we have someone for the stage win, just as Lars Boom did the trick in 2014."

Follow the scene from 12:35 via our liveticker, with also an extensive written

Lars Boom accelerates to victory step, in his wheel Vincenzo Nibali.

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