Tour de France 2022 result LIVE: Bob Jungels wins Stage 9 after remarkable solo ride with Tadej Pogacar fifth

This was a few kilometres back just before the base of the cat. 1 climb. One of the beautiful things about the Tour de France is how beautiful the scenery is at every stage.

The windy coastlines of Denmark gave way to the grassy field of France before these mountains views in Switzerland.

The peloton is working incredible hard to catch up with the breakaway. They’ve cut a minute off the gap as they move up Col de lau Croix.

66km left to go today.

The breakaway has hit Col de la Croix. This mountain is only an 8.1km climb but it’s way steeper than Col de Mosses. The average gradient is 7.6% so it’s going to require a big effort for the KOM contenders.

Further back Michael Woods needs some running repairs after his jersey was ripped in a crash earlier in the day. One of his team cars rolls up alongisde him and fastens some ducktape over the loose parts of the skin tight kit.

71km to go today. The next climb is coming up in just a couple of kilometres and is worth 10 KOM points for the winner. Magnus Cort is in danger of losing the Polka Dot jersey today.

King of the Mountains result at Col des Mosses:

1. Pierre Latour, 5 pts

2. Simon Geschke, 3 pts

3. Hugo Houle, 2 pts

4. Patrick Konrad, 1 pt

Fabio Jakobsen is falling away from the back of the peloton as he’s struggling with the climb. UAE Emirates’s Marc Hirsch has also found it tricky and is replaced by teammate Mikkel Bjerg at the front of the peloton.

Simon Geschke was edged into second place on the KOM climb and settles of three points. The German already picked up four points in a previous stage.

Pierre Latour crests Col des Mosses in first position and takes the five King of the Mountains points! There’s a nice descent now and a chance for recovery before the steep cat. 1 Col de la Croix.

The peloton had cut the gap to around three minutes but the breakaway has gathered speed on the downhill section and have increased their lead again by 30 seconds.

The effort needed to tackle these climbs is taking it’s toll on the riders. The average pace - which at one point hit 53 km/h earlier in the stage - is down to 44km/h.

That is by no means slow going but this Tour de France has been exceptionally quick and the hills today are hitting the cyclists differently.

Three km to go until the summit of Col de Mosses. After this climb there’s a steeper, category 1 mountain, Col de la Croix.

90 km of Stage 9 left today with 5km left of category 2 climb Col des Mosses.

Col des Mosses has been a KOM of the Tour de France in 1949, 1997, 2000, 2009 and 2016. Rafal Majka was first at the top six years ago.

Wout van Aert is leading the breakaway up the mountain. There’s 6km to go in this steep climb.