Tour de France '09

Tour de France 2009

Live Race Report 5:59

The biggest road race of the year, this year's Tour takes a clockwise loop round France, starting in London.

  • And that's all from the BikeRadar live commentary team today. We'll be back for the first stage between London and Canterbury tomorrow at 11:00am local time (midday in Europe). Did someone mention a drink?

  • The top results: 1 Fabian Cancellara (CSC) 8'50 2 Andreas Klöden (Astana) 0'13 3 George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) 0'23 4 Brad Wiggins (Cofidis) 0'23 5 Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel) 0'25 6 Vladimir Karpets (Caisse d'Epargne) 0'26

  • And now Pereiro finishes his ride in 9'27.67 for 21st. That's decent. The winner today and the first yellow jersey wearer is Fabian Cancellara (CSC)!!! The Swiss TT monster smashed the legs off everyone today. He'll take the maillot jaune and wear it through tomorrow's stage from London to Cantebury.

  • Rogers and Pereiro are the last riders to finish. Rogers comes home in 9'27.52, more than half a minute slower than Cancellara.

  • I don't think Rogers will beat Cancellara. Or Pereiro. That doesn't leave too many contendahs.

  • Cancellara is a monster as he sees Cadel Evans in the distance. Evans is home in 9'26 - quite good for the Aussie. Cancellara does it in an insanely fast time of 8'50.74.

  • Cancellara is looking at the best time today. Can he break nine minutes? He's past the BikeRadar commentary position and on his way home. The motorbikes nearly clean him up on O'Grady corner. Denis Menchov (Rabobank) finishes in 9'30. Not brilliant.

  • Cancellara is seven seconds better than Klöden at 4.5km (5'07). Hell, that's fast!

  • Moreau navigates the tricky section before the 1km to go banner, trying to keep his speed up. He is the French hope for GC for this Tour.

  • Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) ends his ride in 9'35 for 33rd. Cance, the current world TT champ, is blazing up Constitution Hill. He is very fast Swiss dude.

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