Tim Merlier won stage nine of the Tour de France at Chateauroux on Sunday after a heroic long-range escape from Mathieu van der Poel was caught in the final kilometre.

Since 2022, Van der Poel (eight), Pogacar (eight), and Evenepoel (four) have won 20 of the last 23 major one-day races (monuments and world championship/Olympic events) they have entered.

As with many heroic exploits, their epic escape was ultimately doomed to a gut-wrenching narrow failure, but with his gung-ho all-in style Van der Poel grew his Tour de France legend despite being ...

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