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

Wout van Aert takes the chasing pack up to the breakaway group knowing he needs to be up near the front by the time the intermediate sprint rolls around in 3km time.

139km left to go.

The breakaway group has about 20 riders in it now, maybe slightly more. They are one minute 27 seconds in ahead of the peloton.

Oh hello. There’s been a response to the breakaway group.

Seven chasers, Wout van Aert, Brandon McNulty, Benoît Cosnefroy, Nils Politt, Ion Izagirre, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Pierre Latour are chasing 25” behind the leading 15.

15 riders have managed to get clear in a breakaway forcing team TotalEnergies to react.

The distance is a 45 second gap with some big names in the leading group: Luis Leon Sanchez, Kobe Goossens, Thibaut Pinot, Warren Barguil, Lennard Kämna and Rigoberto Uran are all up there.

The riders pass Charlie Chaplin world, with a mural of the famous actor laid out on the side of one of the hills.

The Eurosport commentary throws out a few facts about Chaplin’s life, including his flight to Switzerland from McCarthyism in the USA when he was branded a communist.

Interesting stuff for the history buffs.

149km to go as the peloton flies over the first summit of the day. Mathieu van der Poel and Peter Sagan are among the riders dropped in the first climb of the day.

Inside the final half-kilometre of the climb and there are a few riders making a push for the summit.

Ineos Grenadiers’ Jonathan Castroviejo flies out in front and takes the KOM point by reaching the top first.

There’s now a flat run before an uncategorised hill leading to the intermediate sprint.

The Cote de Bellevue is a 4.3km climb and the leading riders hit it. It’s a steady 4% gradient with the peloton evenly spread out behind a group of four riders pushing out in front.

Michael Woods from Israel-PremierTech was a victim in the earlier crash and he has a torn jersey with a nasty bruise beginning to show on his back.

Elsewhere, Caleb Ewan has had to stop due to a flat tyre.

160km to go.

164km to go and the riders that fell behind are making their way back to the peloton.

No breakaway has developed as the pace is rapid. It’s up to 53km/h now with the riders coming up to Cote de Bellevue. This first climb could see some of the stronger riders start to pull ahead.