Tour de France stage 9 as it happened: Yellow jersey showdown on Puy de Dôme

The race returns to a historic climb for the first time in decades expect fireworks from Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard

We've barely caught our breath after the drama, the joy and the heartbreak of yesterday but the race rolls on, that's the nature of the Tour de France.

Today the sprinters will take a backseat again as the GC riders and, possibly, the breakaway artists take center stage.

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Emotional day for Mathieu van der Poel

Tributes for Raymond Poulidor 

176km to go: A break fo around 15 riders has over a minute on the pleoton but a raft of riders are now trying to chase including Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert.

175km to go: Among the teams to have missed the first move are Ineos Grenadiers who have three riders now marking moves off the front of the peloton including Michal Kwiatkowski.

173km to go: The chase group has been brought to heel. An Uno-X rider is now trying his luck.

173km to go: Kasper Asgreen (Souda - Quick-Step) is driving the peloton on.

172km to go: Mads Pedersen now rolls through. They're not soft pedalling, the effort is clear from their faces.

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169km to go: The pace in the peloton is still high and the break's advantage has fallen to 45 seconds. Soudal - Quick-Step are mostly responsible, seemingly keen to set it up for Julian Alaphilippe.

168km to go: Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers) tries to push clear but he's makred by James Shaw.

166km to go: The peloton is back together again. 

162km to go: Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) goes off the front and Alberto Bettiol (Ef Education-EasyPost) marks him. The Italian isn't doing any work though so we'll see how keen the Danish champion is on trying to close the 1-15 gap on his own.

155km to go:  The situation seems to have finally settled down now! The break's gap is 2-46.

Who's in the break?

151km to go: Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X) clips off the front to claim the intermediate sprint points, probably more for the small financial rewards than a earnest pursuit of the green jersey competition.

147km to go: Lilian Calmejane is, justifiably, very annoyed to hit the tarmac after a fan's set of flags in tribute to Poulidor have gotten wrapped up in his bike's bars and sent him to the deck.

145km to go: Japser Philipsen rolls off the front of the peloton to collect a whopping one point. I guess they all count.

139km to go: Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) has to stop for a mechanical but he's off and running again and in the convoy.

134km to go: Not many updates as... well... there's not a lot happening. Michael Woods is the cloest on GC at 28 minutes so he's no threat really. The break has 9-23.

127km to go: Remi Cavagna is told that by his DS the, no he should not try and chase or bridge, they had a chance and will have to sit this one out.

115km to to: The break is rolling through very smoothly. I'll take bets on when that co-operation wil lbreak down, just DM me on Twitter.

101km to go: Victor Campenaerts is back at the car getting some refreshments. #the gap to the break is 10-17 now.

102km to go: Jumbo-Visma are setting the pace in the peloton and the gap to break has stabilized at around 10-40.

98km to go: As the race ticks under the 100km mark the peloton is strung out as they hit a short descent.

96km to go: As the race crests a fourth category climb Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) clips off the front of the break to claim a solitary KOM point to tighten his grip on the polka-dot jersey.

95km to go: Powless now has a 10 point lead in the KOM competition on 38 points to Felix Gall's (AG2R Citroen) 28.

How hard if the Puy de Dôme?

Who's going to win?

82km to go: The break's advantage has dipped below ten minutes but I'm pretty sure the peloton has zero interest in catching them.

Matteo Jorgenson's KOM ride

72km to go: Having just talked up his chances Jorgenson has just been stung by a bee or maybe a wasp under his helmet.

71km to go: He's now getting a sticky bottle from the team car to help him back to the break.

Windy volcano

64km to go: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) has his sleeves turned up a bit to help with his tan lines. The gap to the break is now 11-44.

62km to go: Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech) has attacked out of the break! He has a bit of a gap but no-one is going with him. 

Correction: Earlier I foolishly said Jorgenson was a team-mate of Michael Woods when one rides for Movistar and another for Israel-Premier Tech. I've corrected it now. Sorry, that's me getting my blue jerseys confused.

59km to go: Bouvin has 11 seconds on the break now. He's plugging away.

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55km to go: Latour goes on the attack and he's followed by three others.

54km to go: It's all back together now in the break.

54km to go: Jorgenson attacks now and another four rider group goes clear. 

53km to go: They're joined by Jona Gregaard (Uno-X) to make five. They're travelling downhill at a real clip.

52km to go: Michale Woods, Alexey Lutsenko and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) are the others in this front move. They have eight seconds.

51km to go: Mohoric tried to bridge there but was followed.

50km to go: Clément Berthet (AG2R) closes the gap with seeming ease and it's all back together again.

50km to go: Mohoric is driving it on and splits appear again but they're not massive.

49km to go: Now Abrahamson has a gap.

49km to go: He's brought to heel and its attack after attack. Back in the peloton Jumbo are controlling the cruising pace.

47km to go: Jorgenson now has a gap. The American looks like he means business. He has a decent gap.

46km to go: That gap is going up but it's a long way to go alone. Now Campenaerts goes off in pursuit. They're chasing him hard though.

44km to go: Jorgenson has 18 seconds on the break. Campenaerts has been caught, the chase is not very organised and Mohoric is trying to go on antoher downhill section.

42km to go: Jorgenson is getting his chin to his bars as the he flicks through a section of flowing corners at close to 70kph.

40km to go: Jorgenson continues to build an advantage. His lead is 26 seconds. Meanwhile, Neilson Powless is being gapped off the back of the break.

38km to go: Mohoric attacks again from the break. The chase is a little half-hearted.

37km to go: As I type that Burgaudeau bridges across to him.

37km to go: Lutsenko is trying to chase but the fatigue in the break is starting to show.

36km to go: Jorgenson's gap to the bulk of the break is still around 30 seconds but Mohoric and Burgaudeau are nibbling into it.

36km to go: Powless and David de la Cruz try to get to Mohoric and Burgaudeau on an uphill section. Now it's all over the place. One of the UNo-X riders grinds to a stop, spent.

35km to go: Jorgenson is going well as he sprays water on himself to cool himself down in the heat of the French summer. The four chasers are gainning on him and are just 18 seconds behind.

33km to go: Mohoric's massive engine is proving invaluable at driving this quartet on. 

32km to go: Apparently its 34 degrees C at the base of the final climb. That could well be a decisive factor today. 

30km to go: Mohoric goes again as the road kicks up. It's almost never flat constantly rolling.

27km to go: The gap from Jorgenson to the remains of the break is now just over one minute. It seems odds on that the winner will come from this front five. 

23km to go: Jorgenson's gap is going out. He has 30 seconds now!

22km to go: Jorgenson knows what is required o nthat final climb so you have to assume there's an element of him measuring his effort here and yet he's still putting time into the chasers.

20km to go: Jorgenson nearly loses it on a corner he's pushing the limits right now.

19km to go: Jorgenson has 38 seconds on the chase now he's all in. 

17km to go: Jorgenson has a gap of 34 on the chasers now, it's holding kind of steady. He takes a bottle and an ice pack for the back of his jersey from the Movistar team car.

16km to go: Powless might be in the best position as probably the best climber from the chasing trio - de la Cruz having been taken out by that bike change.

15km to go: The Movistar rider is nearly one minute ahead now.

12km to go: Jorgenson's gap is over one minute as the lower slopes of the climb start.

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