Stage Nine was a question of who could recover from the previous day's efforts and who could not. Apparently Porte could not. Under the onslaught of Moviestar and Saxo Tinkoff, Team Sky was blown apart leaving the team all over the race course including down in a ditch for Kennaugh. He did managed to climb out of the ditch and get back into the race so he could try to drag Richie Porte back up to Chris Froome in the main peloton of contenders. They got to within a minute at the base of the final climb of the day, but ended the day losing almost 15 minutes on his team leader, plunging from second place to thirty third. Whereas most of the riders that he had put into difficulty recovered well enough to stay pedal stroke for pedal stroke with the Malliot Jaune today (not that staying with Froome will win them the race or even the stage). This is an original watercolor and ink postcard that can be had by going to my artist website. Just follow the direct link at the end of this post to get your artistic piece of the 100th Tour de France.
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