Tour de France 2022: Stage 9 - the preview with Rolf Aldag

Profile, final climb & map of stage 9 (Sunday, 10 July: Aigle - Chatel les Portes du Soleil - 192.9 kilometres)

Re-Live: This is how the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2022 went

Neutral start: 12:30
Official start: 12:45
Finish: ~17:28-18:02

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Rolf Aldag's assessment: Who will be wearing yellow today?

There is still one stage to go before the first real rest day of the Tour de France. It's amazing what the planners have packed into the past few days. It's almost as if they wanted to prevent a dominator from breaking away early on and pre-deciding the Tour as soon as it enters the Alps.

As a consequence of this skilful planning, a very interesting mountain stage awaits today, but I don't expect it to be decisive for the overall victory. Although the finish after the lap in the mountains on Lake Geneva is at the top in the ski resort of Les Portes du Soleil, the stage does not offer a mountain finish in the strict sense.

Favourites feeling each other out on stage 9?

After the fairly mild climb to the Pas de Morgins, there is a descent before the finish and then less than 200 metres of ascent to the finish. These are hardly ideal conditions for the best captains to shake off their rivals. At most, there will be a feeling out of the favourites, nothing more. On the other hand, the yellow jersey may well change hands again, as a group of strong climbers will probably break away.

I would expect the winner of the day to come from this group and I also think it's very possible that the gaps will be big enough to start the coming week with a new rider in yellow.

As a professional cyclist, our expert Rolf Aldag rode the Tour de France ten times up to 2004; as manager and sporting director, he has led various top teams through France and this year, for the first time, he will be in charge of the German team Bora-Hansgrohe as sporting director at the Tour de France. There are few people who can tell so vividly what can happen on the stages of a grand tour and within the peloton.

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What weighting does the stage have for the individual rankings?

For TOUR the 53-year-old sports manager has once again carefully studied the elevation profiles and route tables for this year's Tour de France. In his predictions, he names the teams and riders he sees at the front on each day, assesses the difficulties of the routes and says where he expects attacks and from whom. Will there be a bunch sprint? Will a breakaway group make it to the finish?

Aldag also assesses for TOUR what role each stage plays for the classification jerseys (see above): The more coloured jerseys our expert assigns to a stage, the greater its significance for the respective classification. The yellow jersey symbolises the weight of the respective stage in the overall classification, the green jersey stands for the importance of the best sprinter in the points classification and the red dotted jersey for the mountain classification, i.e. for the best climber.

TV broadcast & live stream of the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2022*

• ARD - Das Erste: 15:10 - 17:44
• Eurosport 1: 12:15 - 17:45
• More live pictures on ARD One, Sportschau.de and Eurosportplayer.com**
• You can also find all the important information here in our live ticker

The preview with Rolf Aldag of the stages of the 2022 Tour de France

• Stage 10
• Stage 11
• Stage 12
• Stage 13
• Stage 14
• Stage 15
• Stage 16
• Stage 17
• Stage 18
• Stage 19
• Stage 20
• Stage 21

This is how the stages of the 2022 Tour de France have gone so far

• The race report for stage 1
• The race report for stage 2
• The race report for stage 3
• The race report for stage 4
• The race report for stage 5
• The most spectacular pictures of stage 5
• The race report for stage 6
• The race report for stage 7
• The race report for stage 8

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