Tour De France 2024, Etape 9: Anthony Turgis Creates A Surprise At The Etape Gravel

JAKARTA - Shock after surprise continues to occur at the 2024 Tour de France. Many predictions of winning Mathieu van der Poel will control the Gravel route on etape 9 on Sunday, July 7, 2024. However, in reality, this estimate missed far.

The 2024 Paris-Roubaix champion even failed to enter the top 10. On the other hand, the winner of the race was finally won by Total Energiescyclist, Anthony Turgis. This French racer claimed the biggest win in his career after finishing leading at Troyes. He beat Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) in a race before finishing line.

🏆🇫🇷 @AnthonyTurgis wins this epic stage 9 🏆🇫🇷 Anthony Turgis remporte cette épique étape 9 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/dY5ysPSonk

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2024

AnthonyTurgis wins this epic stage 9 Anthony Turgis remporte ette epique étape 9 #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/dY5ysPSonk

Turgis celebrated his first WorldTour win in his 12-year bicycle racing career. "This is crazy. I believe in myself. I won all levels, but I still haven't won WorldTour. However, winning the Tour de France is incredible," Turgis said.

Turgis is one of 12 racers who breakaway. However, only seven racers lasted until the last kilometer. Alexei Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Ben total (EF Education-EasyPost), and Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech) attempted to carry out the attack early. However, Turgis returned the attack in a precise manner. He combed from the middle to carry out a deadly counter-attack.

Pidcock, who was aware of Turgis' pace, tried to give a response. However, the efforts of this British racer were in vain. The 2024 Amstel Gold Race champion had difficulty chasing Turgis and was seen hitting his bicycle handlebar because he was upset that he failed to win. Meanwhile, the last podium of the race belonged to Gee.

"We had a big day. When we saw the closest group, I thought we could go away. There were a lot of champions around us," he added.

However, the general clarification (GC) standings have not changed much again. Tadej Pogacar still has the right to a yellow jersey in the next race. This Slovenian racer kept a distance of 33 seconds from second place, Remco Evenepoel. The next rank is still filled by defending champion Jonas Vingegaard. The Visma-Lease eBike racer is 1 minute 15 seconds behind Pogacar.

The race will take a one-day break. Etape 10 from Orleans to Saint-Amand-Montrond as far as 187.3 km continued on Tuesday, July 9, 2024.