Tour de France Stage 9 LIVE

Vannes - Plumelec 28 km Team Timetrial

A hilly team timetrial, possibly the cruelest tool in the course designers toolbox. There's every potential that this will do major damage to the GC if some teams lose the plot completely.

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Suffer-collective of the Day:  Team Sky
Things are going Team Stemwatcher's way in this Tour and it might just be that they turn out to have the riders with the best balance of uphill ability and team-timetrialing skills on this odd course.

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Starttimes

1. Orica-GreenEdge - 15:00
2. Bretagne-Séché Environnement - 15:05
3. Lampre-Merida - 15:10
4. FDJ - 15:15
5. Team Europcar - 15:20
6. Bora-Argon 18 - 15:25
7. Lotto-Soudal - 15:30
8. IAM Cycling - 15:35
9. MTN-Qhubeka - 15:40
10. Team LottoNL-Jumbo - 15:45
11. Trek Factory Racing - 15:50
12. Astana - 15:55
13. Team Cannondale-Garmin - 16:00
14. Cofidis - 16:05
15. Team Katusha - 16:10
16. Movistar Team - 16:15
17. Team Giant-Alpecin - 16:20
18. Ag2r La Mondiale - 16:25
19. Etixx-Quick Step - 16:30
20. Tinkoff-Saxo - 16:35
21. BMC Racing Team - 16:40
22. Team Sky - 16:45