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Stage 9 (ITT) : Savignano sul Rubicone - Cesena (35km)

1 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) 0:41:24
2 Geraint Thomas (GBr) 0:01
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) 0:02
4 Stefan Kung (Swi) 0:04
5 Bruno Armirail (Fra) 0:08
6 Primoz Roglic (Slo) 0:17
7 Thymen Arensman (Ned) 0:24
8 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) 0:30
9 Joao Almeida (Por) 0:35
10 Damiano Caruso (Ita) 0:42


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Thymen Arensman
+6 Stefan Kung
+6 Bruno Armirail
+4 Will Barta
+4 Rohan Dennis
+4 Mirco Maestri
+4 Michael Hepburn
+4 Luis Leon Sanchez
+3 Magnus Cort
+3 Mads Pedersen

Biggest losers by position :
-8 Aurelien Paret-Peintre
-6 Samuele Battistella
-5 Andreas Leknessund
-5 Jefferson Alexander Cepeda
-3 Jack Haig
-3 Jan Hirt
-3 Louis Vervaeke
-3 Luca Covili
-3 Matthew Riccitello
-3 Michel Hessmann
-3 Sebastian Berwick

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:08 Remco Evenepoel
+0:07 Geraint Thomas
+0:06 Tao Geoghegan Hart
+0:04 Stefan Kung

Biggest losers by time :
-6:45 Martijn Tusveld
-6:36 Jonas Iversby Hvideberg
-6:29 Martin Marcellusi
-6:23 Kristian Sbaragli
-6:14 Mads Wurtz Schmidt
-6:13 Filippo Magli
-6:13 Oscar Rodriguez
-6:02 Alessandro Iacchi
-6:00 Henok Mulubrhan
-6:00 Samuele Battistella
-5:59 Luca Covili

Favourites by position :
+6 Thymen Arensman
+6 Stefan Kung
+3 Geraint Thomas
+1 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Remco Evenepoel
+1 Damiano Caruso
+1 Brandon Mcnulty
+1 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1 Joao Almeida
-1 Hugh Carthy
-2 Sepp Kuss
-3 Jan Hirt
-3 Jack Haig

Favourites by time :
+0:08 Remco Evenepoel
+0:07 Geraint Thomas
+0:04 Stefan Kung
-0:09 Primoz Roglic
-0:16 Thymen Arensman
-0:22 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:27 Joao Almeida
-0:34 Damiano Caruso
-0:52 Brandon Mcnulty
-1:31 Hugh Carthy
-1:37 Jack Haig
-1:57 Rigoberto Uran
-2:54 Domenico Pozzovivo
-4:13 Sepp Kuss
-5:53 Jan Hirt

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Remco Evenepoel 34:33:42 (was 2nd at 0:08)
2 Geraint Thomas 0:45 (was 5th at 0:52)
3 Primoz Roglic 0:47 (was 3rd at 0:38)
4 Tao Geoghegan Hart 0:50 (was 6th at 0:56)
5 Joao Almeida 1:07 (was 4th at 0:40)
6 Andreas Leknessund 1:07 (was 1st at 0:00)
7 Aleksandr Vlasov 1:48 (was 8th at 1:26)
8 Damiano Caruso 2:13 (was 9th at 1:39)
9 Lennard Kamna 2:37 (was 10th at 1:54)
10 Pavel Sivakov 3:00 (was 12th at 2:03)
.....
13 Thymen Arensman 3:17 (was 19th at 3:01)
.....
16 Jack Haig 3:43 (was 13th at 2:06)
17 Hugh Carthy 4:07 (was 16th at 2:36)
.....
21 Domenico Pozzovivo 6:23 (was 21st at 3:29)
22 Rigoberto Uran 6:23 (was 23rd at 4:26)
.....
35 Stefan Kung 15:57 (was 41st at 16:01)
.....
37 Sepp Kuss 16:27 (was 35th at 12:14)
.....
53 Brandon Mcnulty 29:32 (was 54th at 28:40)
54 Jan Hirt 30:35 (was 51st at 24:42)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jonathan Milan 113 (unchanged)
2 Kaden Groves 100 (unchanged)
3 Mads Pedersen 89 (unchanged)
4 Michael Matthews 57 (unchanged)
5 Remco Evenepoel 37 (was 14th with 22 points)
6 Aurelien Paret-Peintre 33 (was 5th with 33 points)
7 Vincenzo Albanese 32 (was 6th with 32 points)
8 Ben Healy 29 (was 7th with 29 points)
9 Toms Skujins 28 (was 8th with 28 points)
10 Davide Bais 27 (was 9th with 27 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Davide Bais 86 (unchanged)
2 Thibaut Pinot 50 (unchanged)
3 Karel Vacek 36 (unchanged)
4 Simone Petilli 32 (unchanged)
5 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier 26 (unchanged)
6 Ben Healy 24 (unchanged)
7 Aurelien Paret-Peintre 22 (unchanged)
8 Francesco Gavazzi 18 (unchanged)
9 Warren Barguil 16 (unchanged)
10 Alessandro De Marchi 15 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 103:43:30 (was 1st at 101:38:51)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 6:19 (was 3rd at 3:03)
3 EF Education-EasyPost 7:08 (was 2nd at 1:57)
4 Jumbo-Visma 8:09 (was 4th at 4:54)
5 UAE Team Emirates 9:38 (was 6th at 7:40)
6 BORA - hansgrohe 9:54 (was 5th at 6:30)
7 Soudal - Quick Step 16:39 (was 7th at 11:22)
8 Groupama - FDJ 25:54 (was 10th at 23:29)
9 Israel - Premier Tech 27:05 (was 8th at 17:26)
10 Movistar Team 28:08 (was 9th at 19:45)
11 Astana Qazaqstan Team 31:54 (was 11th at 26:19)
12 EOLO-Kometa 40:01 (was 12th at 29:48)
13 Team Jayco AlUla 41:41 (was 13th at 37:02)
14 AG2R Citroen Team 52:47 (was 14th at 43:01)
15 Intermarche - Circus - Wanty 1:04:55 (was 15th at 52:59)
16 Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizane 1:12:34 (was 16th at 57:09)
17 Trek - Segafredo 1:21:18 (was 17th at 1:15:40)
18 Team Arkea Samsic 1:31:03 (was 18th at 1:21:02)
19 Team DSM 1:31:44 (was 19th at 1:23:55)
20 Cofidis 1:37:47 (was 20th at 1:26:38)
21 Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:59:34 (was 21th at 1:46:42)
22 Team Corratec - Selle Italia 4:05:34 (was 22th at 3:52:57)

Retirements to date : Stage
Davide Cimolai (Cofidis) 9 <<<
David Dekker (Team Arkea Samsic) 8
Filippo Ganna (INEOS Grenadiers) 8
Florian Stork (Team DSM) 8
Lars Van Den Berg (Groupama - FDJ) 8
Samuele Zoccarato (Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizane) 8
Giovanni Aleotti (BORA - hansgrohe) 7
Nicola Conci (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 7
Clement Russo (Team Arkea Samsic) 6
Ramon Sinkeldam (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5
Remy Rochas (Cofidis) 5
Valerio Conti (Team Corratec - Selle Italia) 5
Paul Lapeira (AG2R Citroen Team) 4
Total retirements : 13


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Bob Martin wrote:

Stage 9 (ITT) : Savignano sul Rubicone - Cesena (35km)

1 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) 0:41:24
2 Geraint Thomas (GBr) 0:01
3 Tao Geoghegan Hart (GBr) 0:02
4 Stefan Kung (Swi) 0:04
5 Bruno Armirail (Fra) 0:08
6 Primoz Roglic (Slo) 0:17
7 Thymen Arensman (Ned) 0:24
8 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) 0:30
9 Joao Almeida (Por) 0:35
10 Damiano Caruso (Ita) 0:42

And then Evenepoel tested positive for COVID-19

Is COVID a part of what's included in post-race drug testing?

Smith
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Stage 9 : Avezzano > Naples (214 km)

1 Olav Kooij (Ned) 4:44:22
2 Jonathan Milan (Ita) 0:00
3 Juan Sebastian Molano (Col) 0:00
4 Alberto Dainese (Ita) 0:00
5 Danny Van Poppel (Ned) 0:00
6 Madis Mihkels (Est) 0:00
7 Kaden Groves (Aus) 0:00
8 Andrea Vendrame (Ita) 0:00
9 Davide Ballerini (Ita) 0:00
10 Max Kanter (Ger) 0:00


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+19 Rui Oliveira
+18 Juan Sebastian Molano
+16 Olav Kooij
+16 Madis Mihkels
+16 Jonathan Milan
+16 Donavan Grondin
+14 Stanislaw Aniolkowski
+14 Luke Lamperti
+14 Caleb Ewan
+14 Alberto Dainese

Biggest losers by position :
-17 Edoardo Affini
-17 Rainer Kepplinger
-16 Jonas Koch
-16 Mikkel Bjerg
-16 Tobias Bayer
-15 Jimmy Janssens
-15 Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk
-15 Simon Clarke
-15 Tobias Foss
-15 Vegard Stake Laengen
-14 Ethan Vernon

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:10 Olav Kooij
+0:06 Jonathan Milan
+0:04 Juan Sebastian Molano
+0:01 Kaden Groves

Biggest losers by time :
-16:00 Clement Davy
-16:00 David Dekker
-16:00 Edoardo Affini
-16:00 Ethan Vernon
-16:00 Fabian Lienhard
-16:00 Fabio Jakobsen
-16:00 Jimmy Janssens
-16:00 Jonas Koch
-16:00 Luke Plapp
-16:00 Marius Mayrhofer
-16:00 Mikkel Bjerg

Favourites by position :
+11 Filippo Ganna
+6 Felix Grosschartner
+4 Damiano Caruso
+3 Nairo Quintana
+2 Simon Geschke
+2 Romain Bardet

Favourites by time :
-1:46 Domenico Pozzovivo

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tadej Pogacar 32:59:04 (unchanged)
2 Daniel Felipe Martinez 2:40 (unchanged)
3 Geraint Thomas 2:58 (unchanged)
4 Ben O'Connor 3:39 (unchanged)
5 Cian Uijtdebroeks 4:02 (unchanged)
6 Antonio Tiberi 4:23 (unchanged)
7 Lorenzo Fortunato 5:15 (unchanged)
8 Einer Rubio 5:28 (unchanged)
9 Thymen Arensman 5:30 (unchanged)
10 Jan Hirt 5:53 (unchanged)
.....
14 Romain Bardet 7:51 (was 16th at 7:51)
15 Domenico Pozzovivo 9:23 (was 15th at 7:37)
.....
20 Simon Geschke 15:47 (was 22nd at 15:47)
.....
31 Nairo Quintana 30:13 (was 34th at 30:13)
32 Damiano Caruso 30:56 (was 36th at 30:56)
.....
42 Felix Grosschartner 36:26 (was 48th at 36:26)
.....
89 Filippo Ganna 1:17:41 (was 100th at 1:17:41)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Jonathan Milan 174 (was 1st with 134 points)
2 Kaden Groves 116 (was 2nd with 97 points)
3 Olav Kooij 115 (was 4th with 61 points)
4 Tim Merlier 100 (was 3rd with 89 points)
5 Andrea Pietrobon 68 (was 8th with 48 points)
6 Tadej Pogacar 57 (was 5th with 57 points)
7 Benjamin Thomas 56 (was 6th with 56 points)
8 Filippo Fiorelli 54 (was 7th with 54 points)
9 Jhonatan Narvaez 45 (was 9th with 40 points)
10 Michael Valgren 40 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Tadej Pogacar 104 (unchanged)
2 Daniel Felipe Martinez 52 (unchanged)
3 Simon Geschke 36 (unchanged)
4 Lilian Calmejane 32 (unchanged)
5 Geraint Thomas 22 (unchanged)
6 Andrea Piccolo 18 (unchanged)
7 Ben O'Connor 17 (unchanged)
8 Georg Steinhauser 12 (unchanged)
9 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier 11 (unchanged)
10 Filippo Fiorelli 10 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 99:16:18 (was 1st at 85:03:12)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 1:20 (unchanged)
3 Astana Qazaqstan Team 9:23 (unchanged)
4 BORA - hansgrohe 16:05 (unchanged)
5 UAE Team Emirates 18:06 (unchanged)
6 EF Education - EasyPost 21:01 (unchanged)
7 VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizane 21:17 (unchanged)
8 Bahrain - Victorious 33:51 (unchanged)
9 Soudal Quick-Step 34:56 (unchanged)
10 Movistar Team 36:41 (unchanged)
11 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 37:11 (unchanged)
12 Team Jayco AlUla 37:27 (unchanged)
13 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 51:51 (was 13th at 50:11)
14 Cofidis 1:10:06 (was 15th at 1:08:53)
15 Team Polti Kometa 1:21:37 (was 14th at 1:04:22)
16 Lidl - Trek 1:21:44 (was 17th at 1:21:44)
17 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 1:22:26 (was 16th at 1:20:45)
18 Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:27:10 (was 18th at 1:24:24)
19 Arkea - B&B Hotels 1:41:16 (was 19th at 1:39:35)
20 Israel - Premier Tech 1:45:45 (unchanged)
21 Intermarche - Wanty 1:52:55 (unchanged)
22 Groupama - FDJ 2:29:45 (was 22th at 2:23:40)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alexander Krieger (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 9 <<<
Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 9 <<<
Christophe Laporte (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 8
Florian Lipowitz (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 6
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 6
Nadav Raisberg (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 6
Riley Pickrell (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 6
Adrien Petit (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 5
Biniam Girmay (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 4
Bram Welten (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL (WT)) 4
Eddie Dunbar (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 3
Simon Carr (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 3
Robert Gesink (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 2
Total retirements : 13


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Stage 9 : Gubbio > Siena (181 km)

1 Wout Van Aert (Bel) 4:15:08
2 Isaac Del Toro (Mex) 0:00
3 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) 0:58
4 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) 0:58
5 Simon Yates (GBr) 1:00
6 Antonio Tiberi (Ita) 1:00
7 Juan Ayuso (Spa) 1:07
8 Thymen Arensman (Ned) 1:10
9 Egan Bernal (Col) 1:10
10 Adam Yates (GBr) 1:10


Changes in GC, stage 9 compared to stage 8 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+23 Martin Marcellusi
+21 Wout Van Aert
+20 Dorian Godon
+19 Pello Bilbao
+19 Darren Rafferty
+18 Edward Planckaert
+17 Davide De Pretto
+16 Matevz Govekar
+16 Filippo Baroncini
+16 Fabio Van Den Bossche

Biggest losers by position :
-20 Diego Ulissi
-20 Lorenzo Fortunato
-18 Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda
-18 Romain Bardet
-18 Sergio Samitier
-18 Wilco Kelderman
-16 Max Poole
-15 Damien Howson
-15 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-15 Gianmarco Garofoli
-15 Luke Plapp

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:28 Wout Van Aert
+0:26 Isaac Del Toro

Biggest losers by time :
-24:19 Luke Plapp
-24:19 Orluis Aular
-24:19 Paul Double
-24:17 Lucas Hamilton
-24:14 Albert Torres
-23:13 Maikel Zijlaard
-23:11 Kevin Colleoni
-22:51 Alessandro Verre
-22:51 Alessio Martinelli
-22:51 Alexander Krieger
-22:51 Andrea Pietrobon

Favourites by position :
+11 Thymen Arensman
+8 Egan Bernal
+7 Richard Carapaz
+7 Adam Yates
+4 Simon Yates
+3 Thomas Pidcock
+3 Antonio Tiberi
+2 Juan Ayuso
+1 Brandon Mcnulty
-3 David Gaudu
-7 Primoz Roglic
-15 Daniel Felipe Martinez

Favourites by time :
-0:44 Richard Carapaz
-0:46 Simon Yates
-0:46 Antonio Tiberi
-0:53 Juan Ayuso
-0:54 Egan Bernal
-0:56 Thymen Arensman
-0:56 Adam Yates
-1:08 Brandon Mcnulty
-2:08 Thomas Pidcock
-2:08 Primoz Roglic
-2:08 Damiano Caruso
-4:56 David Gaudu
-22:51 Daniel Felipe Martinez

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Isaac Del Toro 33:36:45 (was 5th at 0:26)
2 Juan Ayuso 1:13 (was 4th at 0:20)
3 Antonio Tiberi 1:30 (was 6th at 0:44)
4 Richard Carapaz 1:40 (was 11th at 0:56)
5 Giulio Ciccone 1:41 (was 14th at 1:01)
6 Simon Yates 1:42 (was 10th at 0:56)
7 Egan Bernal 1:57 (was 15th at 1:03)
8 Brandon Mcnulty 1:59 (was 9th at 0:51)
9 Adam Yates 2:01 (was 16th at 1:05)
10 Primoz Roglic 2:25 (was 3rd at 0:17)
.....
12 Damiano Caruso 3:06 (was 12th at 0:58)
13 Thymen Arensman 3:21 (was 24th at 2:25)
.....
16 Thomas Pidcock 3:35 (was 19th at 1:27)
.....
26 David Gaudu 6:56 (was 23rd at 2:00)
.....
63 Daniel Felipe Martinez 37:30 (was 48th at 14:39)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Mads Pedersen 153 (unchanged)
2 Alessandro Tonelli 59 (unchanged)
3 Olav Kooij 55 (unchanged)
4 Casper Van Uden 50 (unchanged)
5 Wout Van Aert 43 (was 22nd with 18 points)
6 Orluis Aular 42 (was 5th with 42 points)
7 Edoardo Zambanini 41 (was 6th with 41 points)
8 Isaac Del Toro 36 (was 20th with 18 points)
9 Taco Van Der Hoorn 34 (was 10th with 25 points)
10 Thomas Pidcock 31 (was 7th with 31 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Lorenzo Fortunato 98 (unchanged)
2 Juan Ayuso 50 (unchanged)
3 Paul Double 36 (unchanged)
4 Manuele Tarozzi 32 (unchanged)
5 Isaac Del Toro 25 (was 5th with 24 points)
6 Sylvain Moniquet 22 (unchanged)
7 Egan Bernal 19 (was 9th with 16 points)
8 Romain Bardet 18 (was 7th with 18 points)
9 Taco Van Der Hoorn 18 (was 14th with 14 points)
10 Diego Ulissi 17 (was 8th with 17 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 100:49:54 (was 1st at 88:02:13)
2 Lidl - Trek 12:15 (was 3rd at 7:38)
3 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 12:49 (was 5th at 8:35)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 15:37 (was 9th at 12:35)
5 XDS Astana Team 16:09 (was 2nd at 2:56)
6 Bahrain - Victorious 16:37 (was 7th at 11:54)
7 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 19:34 (was 6th at 10:08)
8 Team Jayco AlUla 21:06 (was 8th at 12:09)
9 Movistar Team 26:23 (was 4th at 7:45)
10 EF Education - EasyPost 26:48 (was 12th at 22:56)
11 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 34:39 (was 14th at 24:09)
12 Groupama - FDJ 37:46 (was 15th at 28:01)
13 Israel - Premier Tech 38:27 (was 11th at 22:48)
14 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 44:10 (was 13th at 24:08)
15 Team Picnic PostNL 46:34 (was 10th at 17:58)
16 Team Polti VisitMalta 54:25 (was 16th at 32:54)
17 Soudal Quick-Step 56:56 (was 18th at 34:15)
18 Arkea - B&B Hotels 57:22 (was 17th at 32:56)
19 VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizane 1:10:03 (was 20th at 43:16)
20 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 1:11:15 (was 22th at 1:06:13)
21 Cofidis 1:28:48 (was 19th at 37:30)
22 Intermarche - Wanty 1:33:59 (was 21th at 1:04:22)
23 Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:59:44 (was 23th at 1:50:41)

Retirements to date : Stage
Andrea Pasqualon (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 9 <<<
Koen Bouwman (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 9 <<<
Bram Welten (Team Picnic PostNL (WT)) 7
Jan Hirt (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Michel Ries (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 7
Alessandro Pinarello (VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizane (PRT 6
Dion Smith (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 6
Jai Hindley (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 6
Juri Hollmann (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 6
Soren Kragh Andersen (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 5
Nickolas Zukowsky (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 4
Geoffrey Bouchard (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (WT)) 1
Mikel Landa (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 1
Total retirements : 13


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