Tour De France 2025: Stage 17 Updates On The Road From Bollène To Valence – Live

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Yesterday, of course, was a dust-up betwixt Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard connected nan punishing slopes of Mont Ventoux. I didn’t spot nan afloat stage, conscionable nan highlights, but I don’t judge Pogacar was ever successful superior trouble, contempt Visma-Lease A Bike throwing nan room descend astatine him and his team. Read Jeremy Whittle’s study correct here:

The official Tour de France withdrawals page is simply a useful resource. Mathieu van der Poel abandoned yesterday owed to pneumonia, conscionable successful lawsuit you missed it.

Mathieu van Der Poel racing connected Sunday. Photograph: Luca Betinni/GodingImages/Shutterstock

William Fotheringham’s pre-race appraisal of today’s route:

Stage 17, Wednesday 23 July: Bollène to Valence, 161km

Potentially a bunch sprint, nan past of nan Tour, but teams pinch a sprinter who tin climb – deliberation Intermarché pinch Girmay for illustration – will effort and pain disconnected nan somewhat heavier brethren specified arsenic Merlier connected nan resistance to nan Col de Pertuis aft 66km, peculiarly if nan greenish jersey is successful play; here’s a chance to summation valuable points. It will each bent connected upwind direction, morale and nan peloton’s dwindling reserves of strength.

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Welcome to Wednesday’s Tour de France entertainment, AKA Fast and Furious Part 17. At 161km this is nan third-shortest shape of nan last week, and nan deficiency of important climbing will spot nan sprinters’ teams attempting to group things up for a bunch footwear successful Valence. Unusually Sunday’s shape successful Paris looks highly improbable to decorativeness successful a sprint, owed to 3 precocious ascents of nan Butte Montmartre, truthful nan points classification contenders will spell all-in coming for what should beryllium their past chance of a shape win.

So it promises to beryllium different insanely accelerated day, pinch plentifulness of willing parties arsenic nan peloton heads north, retired of nan Rhône Valley, done nan Drôme and successful nan wide guidance of Lyon. There are 2 category-four climbs: nan Col du Pertuis, aft 66.3km, and nan Col de Tartaiguille, coming aft 117km of racing. The day’s intermediate sprint arrives aft 47.9km, astatine Roche-Saint-Secret-Béconne, guaranteeing a flat-out start, continuing connected to a flat-out mediate and finish.

The fastest projected clip schedule has nan peloton roaring into Valence to wrap things up astatine 17.10 section clip (16.10 UK) – it would beryllium nary astonishment to spot different full-on time decorativeness earlier that.

Stage shape time: 13.50 CET / 12.50 BST