In the hardest stage (5,300 meters in altitude) victory for the Austrian Gall. The Slovenian goes into crisis on the Col de la Loze: now the Dane even has a 7’35” lead in the standings
The Austrian Felix Gall triumphs in the seventeenth stage of the Tour with arrival in Courchevel, Jonas Vingegaard definitively gets his hands on the 2023 edition, repeating the one conquered last year. In the seventeenth stage, Saint Gervais Mont Blanc-Courchevel, the 25-year-old of Ag2r Citroen made a gap on the Col de la Loze, hors categories, ahead of the British Simon Yates by 34″ and the Spanish Pello Bilbao by 1’38”. In two days the Grande Boucle was closed. After the heavy gap of 1’38” trimmed by Jonas Vingegaard to Tadej Pogacar in yesterday’s time trial, today came the second blow for the definitive knockout: 5’45” trimmed by the Dane (today 4th) to the Slovenian (22nd in 7’37” from Gall). Tour and stage mortgaged on the last climb of the day, the Col de la Loze with the Slovenian who broke away from his Danish rival at -14.4 km from the finish.
Race and ranking
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Pogacar is now 7’35” behind the Dane in the general standings, while Adam Yates is in third place at 10’45”. Felix Gall gains two positions, now 8th at 16’11” from the yellow jersey. Good news for Italian cycling: Giulio Ciccone took first place in the first 3 mountain Grand Prix, two in the first and one in the second category, and with the Having collected 25 points, he remains in command of the climbers’ classification: 88 points against Gall’s 82 and Vingegaard’s 81. Tomorrow’s eighteenth stage, Moutiers-Bourg en Bress of 184.9 km.
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