Tour de France 2022

Tadej Pogacar won stage 17 of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Wednesday, but was once again shadowed over the line by overall leader Jonas Vingegaard.

We are positive and motivated to go again tomorrow," he said. Peyragudes: Defending champion Tadej Pogacar won stage 17 of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Wednesday, but was once again shadowed over the line by overall leader in Jumbo-Visma's Jonas Vingegaard. Tadej Pogacar won stage 17 of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Wednesday, but was once again shadowed over the line by overall leader Jonas Vingegaard

It's the final day in the Pyrenees and the last true mountain stage of the Tour de France in a 143.2km ride from Lourdes to Hautacam.

For Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who sits 2:18 behind Vingegaard on the Tour’s General Classification, it’s the last chance to crack the Dane before Saturday’s time trial. We’re also eager to see the fight to win the polka dot jersey as the Tour’s King of the Mountains. Germany’s Simon Geschke (Cofidis) still leads the competition, but Vingegaard and Pogačar are getting close. The next climb, the Category 1 Col de Spandelles (10.3km @ 8.3%), begins as soon as the riders hit the valley. After leaving town, the route heads west and then south, heading through the Pyrenean foothills as it wraps its way toward the Intermediate Sprint in Laruns. The Aubisque is a brute. The climb to Hautacam (13.6km @ 7.8%) has been the site of some exciting battles since making its debut on Stage 11 of the 1994 Tour de France. And it’s a bit of a fortune-teller: four of the five riders who have worn the yellow jersey at its summit have gone on to win the Tour. Will Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) be the fifth?

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard put on a dominant display, leaving the pack far behind before battling it out for the stage win.

45km to go: The yellow jersey group are closing in on the group of chasers, moving at a pace that neither Tom Pidcock nor Adam Yates could handle. 38km to go: Eek, a wobbly moment for Pinot on the descent – it’s not his strong suit – with Lutsenko leading and looking more comfortable. The slower pace has allowed Yates and Pidcock to rejoin that group as we hit the day’s third climb. 25km to go: GC contenders falling away by the minute now – Nairo Quintana the latest to drop back. 7km to go: With Pogacar still being relentlessly shadowed by Vingegaard up ahead, we get a look at the chasers – and Romain Bardet has found a second wind. 21km to go: This UAE-Team Emirates duo have absolutely laid waste to the field on this penultimate climb – but despite dropping his Jumbo-Visma support, Pogacar and McNulty have not shaken off Vingegaard yet. 5km to go: The crowds are getting bigger, the bends getting tighter, the road getting steeper. They have cruised past a back-pedalling Bardet, absorbed Uran and are rolling relentlessly towards the race leader, Leknessund. 3km to go until the top of the climb ... Jonas Vingegaard kicks for home first, and Pogacar responds – the two GC leaders are in an uphill sprint for the line! Jonas Vingegaard kicks for home first, and Pogacar responds – the two GC leaders are in an uphill sprint for the line! The gap between the race leader and Pogacar is 2min 22sec; if the Slovenian can even make a dent in that, he’ll see that as a good result. 2km to go: Thomas has opened a slight gap over Bardet. But never mind that – what’s happening up the road?

We'll see on Thursday if Pogcar and Vingegaard are still friends. PEYRAGUDES FRANCE JULY 20 LR Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen of Denmark and Team Jumbo Visma Yellow ...

Trek up the pace again. He seems to be trying to keep the peloton within range of the attackers, perhaps so that Pogacar can try to win the stage and take a 10-second time bonus. ⛰Une nouvelle journée difficile sur la route du #TDF2022 avec une arrivée à Peyragudes qui promet d'être mouvementée ! ⛰ pic.twitter.com/tB6D6pxfKRJuly 20, 2022 There's always a race within the race. Pinot is the first to the summit of the Col d'Aspin. 3km to the summit of the Col d'Aspin. The pace is still very high and the gap on the peloton is slowly opening to 1:00. Bardet has to go across to the break before the descent. Geschke is chasing Pinot and Lutsenko, with the rest of the attack chasing them. McNulty is dragging Pogacar and Vingegaard to the foot of the climb. The riders are nearing the Peyragudes, the climb to the finish. The peloton is at 1:30. Yates is at 2:50.

Pogačar and Vingegaard sprinted to the line on the Pyrenees mountain stage, with the Slovenian taking first place.

Only Pogačar, Vingegaard, Thomas, Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) and Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) were left at this point, with the latter leading the way. Geraint Thomas crossed the line 2-07 back on the two leaders, all but ending his hopes of another Tour de France win. During the descent McNulty regained ground on the pair, leading them towards the summit finish at Peyragudes. Romain Bardet (Team DSM) had bridged across by this point as he looked to move further up in the general classification, being 6-37 behind Vingegaard overall. Attacks here finally started to stick, with Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana-Qazaqstan) managing to open up some distance between themselves and the bunch. McNulty led the way, with the yellow jersey wearer on Pogačar's wheel. Riders were constantly being picked off, with only Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM) and Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-EasyPost) left 30 seconds further up the mountain. Once again, Pinot summited Hourquette d'Ancizan first, but was only a minute ahead of the GC group with Lutsenko heading into the final 46km and two category one climbs. Tom Pidcock also started to slip back, leaving Geraint Thomas with only Jonathan Castroviejo and Dylan Van Baarle further up the road as part of the 15-rider chasing group. The opening 60km of the stage saw multiple attacks continuously come and go along the false flat, but nothing managed to stick. Kuss and Thomas eventually couldn't manage to hang on, though, as McNulty led the two GC rivals up the mountain. Pogačar launched his first attack near the summit, but Vingegaard managed to answer that question by sticking to the Slovenian's wheel.

Tadej Pogacar may have failed to unsettle Jonas Vingegaard on Tuesday but he has another chance in the Pyrenees a day later...

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A short but sharp stage 17 from Saint Gaudens to Peyragudes hosted a big fight for the Tour de France yellow jersey.

500m to go: Still McNulty leading Vingegaard leading Pogacar – a tense finale! Pogacar raises his arms aloft as he crosses the line, with Vingegaard’s head collapsing on to his bars behind. Pogacar tacks on to the wheel of Vingegaard and then slings his bike wide and fires down the inside. That’s the second time on this Tour that Pogacar has outsprinted Vingegaard on a summit finish. Here are the overall standings after stage 17. Team UAE Emirates obliterated the Tour de France peloton with a pace so relentlessly high they turned stage 17 into the most brutal yet, leaving big names scattered and gasping for air along the baking hot roads of the Pyrenees, to set up a hard-earned victory for Tadej Pogacar on the Peyragudes summit.

Here's how to watch a 2022 Tour de France live stream from anywhere, as a summit finish awaits the riders for this tricky mountain stage.

RTBF (opens in new tab) (BEL) OTT streaming service Sling TV is reasonably priced and includes USA Network as part of its Sling Blue (opens in new tab) package. France TV Sport (opens in new tab) (FRA) Rai Sport (opens in new tab) (ITA) SBS (opens in new tab) (AU) Not in Canada to catch that FloBikes stream? Global streams: Peacock TV (opens in new tab) or USA Network via Sling TV discount (opens in new tab) / FREE fuboTV trial (opens in new tab) (US) The 17th stage of Le Tour starts at 13:15 (CEST) local time. Sky Sport (NZ) You also have the option of paying $10 a month for commercial-free coverage. You can try it for free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Here's how to live stream Stage 17 and watch the Tour de France 2022 from anywhere.

Geraint Thomas's hopes of winning this year's Tour de France evaporated into the thin Pyrenean air as Tadej Pogacar wins mountain stage.

Thomas, grinding his way across the finish line two minutes later, finished best of the rest to conserve his third place overall. His efforts were enough to crack all their leading rivals, except Vingegaard, who again mastered the defending champion’s attempts to distance him. If he cannot do so, then everything will rest on Saturday’s final 40km time trial, just as it did in 2020, when he usurped Vingegaard’s teammate, Primoz Roglic, to win his first Tour.

Geraint Thomas praised the breakaway which dented his outside chance of getting hold of the yellow jersey at the Tour de France.

Tour de France I made the call to wait for the group behind rather than battle, go into the red and risk blowing up here and losing even more time. Tour de France

Tadej Pogacar may have failed to make significant ground on Jonas Vingegaard on Wednesday, but he has another chance to make a big impact on Stage 18.

An inclinometer feature will be introduced, a 3D representation bringing to life the gradients faced by the peloton. "So he has to take a chunk of it back tomorrow [Stage 18] to have any hope. "It is going to be a hard day.