Stage 17 offers valley roads for the first 108 km, then it is filled with three huge climbs in the last 70 km until the finish at the top of the Col du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Tao Geoghegan Hart (Ineos Grenadiers) would back off on the first climb, Col de Peyresourde, shown earlier on stage with Geraint Thomas (left) and Jonathan Castroviejo (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Lukas Pöstlberger from Bora-Hansgrohe takes the lead in the breakaway (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The breakaway formed 160km from the finish on stage 17 (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The breakaway heads for the first of three classified climbs, the Col de Peyresourde (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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On Bastille Day, four of the six runners in the day’s main breakaway are French (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Anthony Turgis from France and Team TotalEnergies leads the breakaway on stage 17 towards the second climb, the Col de Val Louron-Azet (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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The peloton passes through Labarthe-Rivière Village during stage 17 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Bahraini teammates Victorious Marco Haller and Wout Poels in the Polka Dot Mountain Jersey ride on stage 17 (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Tadej Pogacar and his UAE Team Emirates teammates on stage 17, from Muret to Saint-Lary-Soulan (Col du Portet) (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
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Michael Woods (Israel Start-Up Nation) started stage 17 just eight points behind mountain leader Wout Poels (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Mark Cavendish (Deceuninck-QuickStep) tries to stay in the main peloton 57 km from the finish (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Tadej Pogacar on the final climb of stage 17 (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Davide Formolo leads the UAE Team Emirates’ ascent from Col du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Davide Formolo (UAE Team Emirates) works hard at the top of the yellow jersey group on the Col du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Decor on the final climb of stage 17, the yellow jersey group down 3 minutes from the breakaway riders (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Jonas Vingegaard from Jumbo-Visma in the yellow jersey group on the Montée du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Miguel Angel Lopez (Movistar) climbs with a selected group of climbers and contenders on stage 17, towards the summit of Col du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Tadej Pogačar launches an attack 8km from the finish, but Jonas Vingegaard remains close (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Pello Bilboa (Bahrain Victorious) attacked in the lead in the last 10km of the Col du Portet (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Frenchman Anthony Perez de Cofidis was caught by the yellow jersey but was recognized as the most combative rider (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Pello Bilboa (Bahrain Victorious) attempted an attack in the final climb (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) marked his authority on the Tour de France with a second stage victory at the top of the highest peak of the race, the Col du Portet.
The Slovenian, who divided the group of contenders in the general classification with an attack halfway up the 16 kilometers of non-category climb, took podium contenders Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) with he as second man Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-Nippo) stepped off the podium.
Carapaz, who looked to bluff much of the climb, took off a mile from the finish after Pogacar’s repeated acceleration failed to separate the trio. Vingegaard was let go before falling back 200 meters from the line, but the race leader held on.
Pogačar launched at 120 meters, sealing the victory in front of Vingegaard with a triumphant final on the line, at 2,209 meters above sea level.
