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Tour de France peloton reacts to a ‘vicious, brutal and slapstick’ gravel stage


For 3 of the previous 4 days, the Tour de France has largely been on maintain, the race pretty much as good as on pause and the thrill dulled whereas the sprinters had their probabilities, and groups curiously determined towards placing males within the breakaway. 

Enter stage 9 to reinvigorate the drama, the first-ever stage within the fashionable Tour de France with a number of sectors of chemins blancs – gravel roads. The 199km race in and round Troyes, passing over 14 sectors of free rock, was gained unexpectedly by TotalEnergies’s Frenchman Anthony Turgis, whereas behind the GC cohort tore shreds off one another, however in the end all crossed the end line as one. 



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