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BMC win 9th stage team time trial, Froome stays on top at Tour de France

Xinhua, July 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

BMC Racing team claimed their second victory at the 2015 Tour de France by just one single second at Sunday's team time trial, while Team Sky's Chris Froome stayed firmly on top.

Averaging 52.09km per hour, BMC, the reigning world champions finished the 28km course in 32 minutes and 15 seconds, beating race leaders Froome's team Sky to the second place. Movistar were the third at three more seconds.

With the victory, BMC's leading rider, Tejay van Garderen of the United States, moved up to the second place at the overall individual standings, just 12 seconds behind Sky's British rider Froome.

Another BMC member Greg Van Avermaet now sits on the third at 27 seconds. Former second-placed Peter Sagan of Tinkoff-Saxo was beaten to the fourth at 38 seconds, while his teammate and this year's Giro d'Italia winner Alberto Contador moved up to fifth at 1:03.

"We knew we were on a really good ride," Van Garderen said. "In a perfect world, we would have taken the stage and the yellow jersey. But we just take the stage win. Honestly, I couldn't be happier."

Four of the BMC Racing Team's nine riders in Sunday's race were part of the gold medal-winning result last September at the world team time trial championships.

The three-week Tour will come to its first rest day on Monday before resuming Tuesday with a 167 km stage from Tarbes to La Pierre-Saint-Martin on the cusp of the Pyrenees mountains. Endi