Stage 9

The road

How it was won

1. 118 km to go

   Movistar come apart

   Fastest of all at the first check, the Spanish team then shatter into three separate groups on one of the climbs. They regroup, but the hilly Breton roads have already taken their time.

2. 28 km to go

   Froome does too much

   Sky are setting the best splits but shedding men, and the race leader keeps glancing back to count them. He takes turn after turn on the front, and it will cost him.

3. 3At the line

   One second in Plumelec

   A hundred metres from the line Froome swings back to pace a struggling Nicolas Roche — his fifth man, and the one the clock stops on. BMC take the stage by a single second; Froome keeps the maillot jaune.

The result