Article: Ricco reigns in Pyrenees.(Monday Sports Supplement)

BYLINE: bagneres-de-Bigorre

Italian Riccardo Ricco recovered from a heavy crash on the race's eighth stage to win the Tour de France's ninth stage in spectacular fashion yesterday.

Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen overcame a difficult first day in the Pyrenees to keep the yellow jersey and his six-second lead on Australia's Cadel Evans, who, worryingly for his team, suffered a crash early in the stage.

The first of three days in the Pyrenees, a mammoth 224km hike over two of the race's first category one-rated climbs, was lit up by an audacious three-man breakaway that left Germany's Sebastien Lang on his own.

However, the Gerolsteiner rider was soon upstaged by ...

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