Le Tour 2022 – Stage 17

Saint-Gaudens > Peyragudes

Distance: 129.7 kilometers.

A Mountain stage with four Category climbs and a summit finish.

• Col d’Aspin 65.7 km (Cat 1: 12.0km @ 6.5%)
• Hourquette d’Ancizan 81.6 km (Cat 2: 8.2km @ 5.1%)
• Col de Val Louron-Azet 109.5 km (Cat 1: 10.7km @ 6.8%)
• Peyragudes 129.7 km (Cat 1: 8.0km @ 7.8%)

The intermediate sprint is at 32.9 km at La Barthe-de-Neste.

Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [Yellow] 67h 53′ 54″
Wout Van Aert (TJV – 016) [Green] 416 Points
Simon Geschke (COF – 073) [Polka Dot] 64 points
Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [White] 2

Stage winner: Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001)
Combative: Brandon Mcnulty (UAD – 006) ) [Red numbers]
Team: Ineos Grenadiers ( IGD – 021-028 ) [Yellow numbers]

Tadej Pogačar is 4 seconds closer to the Yellow, but but he is running out of stages.

Top 10 below the fold

1 Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) 67h 53′ 54″
2 Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) + 00h 02′ 18″
3 Geraint Thomas (IGD – 021) + 00h 04′ 56″
4 Nairo Quintana (ARK – 151) + 00h 07′ 53″
5 David Gaudu (GFC – 091) + 00h 07′ 57″
6 Romain Bardet (DSM – 111) + 00h 09′ 21″
7 Louis Meintjes (IWG – 124) + 00h 09′ 24″
8 Aleksandr Vlasov (BOH – 041) +00h 09′ 56″
9 Adam Yates (IGD – 028) + 00h 14′ 33″
10 Enric Mas (MOV – 061) + 00h 16′ 35″

Did not start:
Rafal Majka (UAD – 005)
Tim Wellens (LTS – 168)

Withdrew:
Fabio Felline (APT – 134)

Note: Wikipedia has a simple article on the Mountain classification used on the Tour. The basic fact is that climbs fall into five types, with the four numbered types decreasing in difficulty as the numbers get larger, and then there is the Hors Catégorie, literally “without category”, which generally makes you look for an elevator or Sherpas.

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