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Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard held on to the Tour de France overall lead on Sunday, July 9, ahead of the first rest day as Canada's Michael Woods took a prestigious stage win on the Puy de Dome volcano.
PUY DE DOME, France On the same mountain where five-time Tour de France champion Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor wrote themselves into race history 59 years earlier, all eyes Sunday were on Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar’s continued rivalry at cycling’s biggest race.
Neither Vingegaard nor Pogacar finished first at the summit of the Puy de Dome after Canadian Michael Woods delivered an impressive solo effort to claim the biggest success of his career.
But the fierce rivals, riding well behind the day’s breakaway they had allowed to form, were again in the spotlight.
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