Tour de France Tour de France 2024 stage 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux - Superdévoluy, 177.8 km

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Prize money for 3rd in the sprint classification is 10k, so actually not too bad, to be fair (compared to 4k for 4th). More or less the same as for a stage win, or 7th in GC.

 

[Nick2413]

Even for a false flat 48kph for 2 and a half hours for a group of 4 is pretty intense

 

[will-10]

This has been a great watch today

 

[Samamba]

It's happening. 50 man break

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

massive group getting away now

 

[JosefK]

Much more fun stage than yesterday. Meanwhile, Peacock is brutalizing me with their ads/commercials. It's a paid-subscription streaming service. WT heck?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Huge 30 man move going but they all look so lethargic

 

[RobertCrawley]

Much more fun stage than yesterday. Meanwhile, Peacock is brutalizing me with their ads/commercials. It's a paid-subscription streaming service. WT heck?

Exactly. This gets me every year. It's like we're paying twice.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

In theory a race being hard and pace being high is great but this jump and catch play right now feels totally pointless. Barely anything left before the climbs and this situation just leads to Pogacar, Vingegaard and Remco (in that order) destroying everyone later with Pog grabbing another stage win.

 

[will-10]

UAE invisible the whole day but somehow got two in the big group

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

EF car is either lying or stupid. Saying they expected the start of the race to be after intermediate sprint. If so it would be absolutely stupid to attack so much with Carapaz in the flatter parts early on…

 

[Didinho]

Hope Remco sneaks into one of those big groups.

 

[Netserk]

Now it's settled. Bayard will be blasted.

 

[Tim Cahill]

And after 130k of at least 25 attacks, Ben Healy misses a 43 man move aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone

 

[Samamba]

Group is waaay to big to work together ofcourse, team needs to start riding there or first 4 have 2 mins when ht eclimbs start. Shouldn't really be a problem for some of the real climbers in there I guess

 

[will-10]

Visma will for sure test UAE again later on Noyer

 

[Danskebjerge]

This has been a great watch today

I slept. Wake me up when you have a stage with a chance for breakaways.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

And after 130k of at least 25 attacks, Ben Healy misses a 43 man move aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone

Johannesen has also been in almost as many attacks as Healy and he seems to have missed this one as well…

 

[will-10]

PCS says Alpecin the only team not representated

 

[Earns1985]

And after 130k of at least 25 attacks, Ben Healy misses a 43 man move aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand it's gone

They have Carapaz in the group, so not a bad situation for EF at all..

 

[Devrann]

Picture at km 53 now is three Visma guys are in the breakaway and believe that not for stage win...Most likely Vingegard will try something..

 

[Didinho]

All GC guys dropped from the peloton. What a big G2 group. A list with all the names somewhere?

 

[Tim Cahill]

They have Carapaz in the group, so not a bad situation for EF at all..

It was a 'whoever wants to go is allowed' break and they have 1 rider in there after attacking all day, Carapaz good but not the an ideal situation considering he's wasted so much energy already.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Jasper needs all points he can get, if he wants a small chance to win.

There is always a reason to not let breakaways go.

 

[Rob5091]

Pause before the storm, I think.