Welcome to live coverage of stage nine of the Tour de France, a 41.5km individual time trial from Arc en Senans to Besancons. With Britain's Bradley Wiggins and Australian Cadel Evans separated by just 10 seconds, this will give us a better idea of who the major favourite for this year's Tour de France crown really is.

It's a tough course: the roads are undulating most of the way, and the first checkpoint comes at Abbans Dessus after a short 10% climb. By now, the riders will have risen 145m since the start in the mining time of Arc-et-Senans. You'd think the favourites would be Bradley Wiggins and Fabian Cancellara. It will be interesting to see how Tony Martin fares after his bad fall in stage one: the German fractured a bone in his wrist.

Luis Leon Sanchez, who hurt his wrist badly in stage one, is currently second at the finish. The Spanish rider from Rabobank is 13 seconds down on Gustav Larsson.

Dutch time trial champion Lieuwe Westra finished second in the final time trial of this year's Paris-Nice and is a second quicker than Larsson at the 16.5 timecheck.

Larsson, who won the final time trial of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, leads with 54:19.

The first national time trial champion to start today is Gustav Larsson. The five-time Swedish time trial champion was runner-up in the 2008 Olympic time trial in Beijing and has led through all the intermediate time checks.

Feillu (Saur-Sojasun) is the first man over the line in 57:33

Glasses were raised all over France as a new national hero came of age on stage eight of the Tour just across the border in the pretty Swiss town of Porrentruy.

Thibaut Pinot was in buoyant mood after presenting the French with their first stage victory in this year's Tour de France yesterday. "It's a dream. I rode the longest last 10 kilometres of my life," he said. "I insisted I do it, because I knew what I could do. I hope my team director has no regrets now."

Brice Feillu was the first rider out of the start ramp at 09:45 local time. Wiggins is off at 15:39.