Canadian Michael Woods claims first Tour de France stage victory at 36
Michael Woods closes on Matteo Jorgenson in the ascent of the Puy-de-Dôme before going on to win the ninth stage of the Tour de France. Photograph: Vincent Kalut/AFP via Getty ImagesMichael Woods of the Israel-PremierTech team took a spectacular victory at the summit of the Puy-de-Dôme, overlooking Clermont-Ferrand, as Tadej Pogacar eroded a few more seconds of the defending champion Jonas Vingegaard’s lead.
Woods, almost two minutes behind solo attacker Matteo Jorgenson at the foot of the climb, powered his way beyond the exhausted American on the brutal final gradients. The Canadian is twice a stage winner in the Vuelta a España but this was his first Tour stage success. As Woods celebrated, dashing the hopes of Jorgenson in the last 400 metres, Tour favourites Pogacar, riding for UAE Team Emirates and Vingegaard, of Jumbo-Visma, were coming up the steep narrow road in a select group that also included Britain’s Tom Pidcock, whose strong showing lifted him up the General Classification to seventh overall.
But a sharp acceleration from Pogacar, a kilometre and a half from the finish, saw the Slovenian claw back time on his Danish rival, in a race that still remains too close to call. Vingegaard contained the gap and, on the eve of the first rest day, retains the yellow jersey but with a reduced lead of 17 seconds.
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