Powerful Vingegaard stretches Tour lead on decisive day 

Danish rider puts in awesome performance on the Tour’s highest ascent as Austrian Felix Gall wins stage 17

DANE TRAIN: Jumbo-Visma's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey cycles in the ascent of Col de la Loze in the final kilometres of the 17th stage of the 110th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 166 km between Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc and Courchevel, in the French Alps, on July 19, 2023. Pic: Thomas SAMSON/AFP

The Austrian rider Felix Gall won stage 17 of the Tour de France, from Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc to Courchevel, after the race leader Jonas Vingegaard increased his overall lead on Tadej Pogacar to seven minutes and 35 seconds with another display of power on the Tour’s highest ascent, the 2,304-metre climb of the Col de la Loze.

Gall, of the AG2R Citroën team, attacked alone at the foot of the steepest sections of the Loze and maintained his lead on chaser Simon Yates over the summit, through the narrow winding descent and on to the 18% gradients leading to the finish line on Courchevel altiport.