Canadian Michael Woods delivered an impressive solo effort to claim the biggest success of his career at the top of a legendary Tour de France climb on Sunday as two-time champion Tadej Pogacar further reduced the gap with overall leader Jonas Vingegaard.
Woods, who rides for the Israel-Premier Tech team, has no ambition in the general classification and was part of an early breakaway that the main contenders allowed to form early in the ninth stage. He managed to catch American Matteo Jorgenson just 500 meters from the summit after his 24-year-old rival jumped away from the leading group with less than 50 kilometres left.
"I've never won a stage of the Tour. It’s something I’ve talked about doing and wanting to do, but have never been able to achieve and I finally did it," Woods said. Houle's victory was Canada's first stage win in the historic race since Steve Bauer captured the opening stage of the Tour in 1988."Mike showed us again that he is one of the best climbers in the world ... Due to my personal relationship with Mike and the other Canadians on our team, I couldn't be more proud," said Israel Premier-Tech team owner Sylvan Adams, a Canadian-Israeli entrepreneur.
Riding well behind the breakaway, Pogacar and Vingegaard were again in a class of their own in the group of contenders. After another great collective effort from Vingegaard's Jumbo-Visma teammates in the final ramp that destroyed the field, Pogacar launched his attack with 1.5 kilometres left and accelerated again on the steepest gradients.
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