Brioude, France
Like a lost love, the Tour de France gains in value for riders who can't race in it.
That was the lesson Thibaut Pinot learned last year when the French rider, who'd fallen sick at the Giro d'Italia in May...
Alessandro de Marchi's Tour de France came to an abrupt end on stage 9 when the Italian crashed hard and had to be transported by ambulance to a hospital in Saint-Etienne. There were troubling images of de Marchi on the ground bleeding from a wound on his forehead...
Outside Bar Postel in the centre of Brioude, the band was playing a passable version of 'The Last Time' by the Rolling Stones. Their competition around the block at Godart Daniel was belting out Lynyrd...
In contrast to the hectic end to stage 8 of the Tour de France, Team Ineos enjoyed a more controlled, and certainly less strenuous, finish to stage 9 in Brioude.
And on Bastille Day, he rested. Julian Alaphilippe became the 18th Frenchman to wear the yellow jersey on the national holiday, but after his all-action opening to the Tour de France, it was a rare...
Richie Porte lightheartedly celebrated finishing stage 9 of the Tour de France in Brioude, after crashing out on day 9 of both the 2017 and 2018 Grand Boucle.