Tour de France summit finish at Col du Portet - Preview

Team Jumbo Visma's Jonas Vingegaard rides ahead of Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar
Team Jumbo Visma's Jonas Vingegaard rides ahead of Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Another day, same difference. For more than a week on this Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) has maintained precisely the same advantage over the three men closest to him in the overall standings and he duly came home alongside Rigoberto Uràn (EF Education-Nippo), Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) once again in Saint-Gaudens on stage 16.

The terrain is rather more onerous on stage 17, however, and the summit finish on the mighty Col du Portet should finally provide a degree of separation in the tight battle for the podium, though it remains to be seen if anyone can make even the slightest dent in Pogačar’s commanding 5:18 overall lead.

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Barry Ryan
Head of Features

Barry Ryan is Head of Features at Cyclingnews. He has covered professional cycling since 2010, reporting from the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and events from Argentina to Japan. His writing has appeared in The Independent, Procycling and Cycling Plus. He is the author of The Ascent: Sean Kelly, Stephen Roche and the Rise of Irish Cycling’s Golden Generation, published by Gill Books.