Race Preview · July 21
Stage 17 Preview: Nothing To Gain, An Entire Tour De France To Lose
The 2026 Tour buried a fistful of podium hopes in sixteen days and put Florian Lipowitz in an ambulance yesterday, off a time-trial descent Tadej Pogačar nearly rode into himself. Stage 17 looks, on a road map, like a chance to breathe. It is not. A hundred and seventy-four kilometres from Chambéry to Voiron, five categorised climbs, and a saw-tooth run-in that never settles — a hard, lumpy day the breakaway has had circled for a week. The general classification cannot win here. It…
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