Astana’s Fabio Aru now wears the yellow jersey as the leader of the 2017 Tour de France. In fact, the Tour’s two individual time trials were all Froome really needed: his winning margin came entirely thanks to time gained during Stage 1’s time trial in Düsseldorf and Stage 20’s in Marseille. How Do Your Stats Compare to a Tour de France Pro? 104th Tour de France 2017 / Stage 10 Podium / Marcel KITTEL Green Sprint Jersey/ Celebration / Perigueux - Bergerac / TDF/ Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images RELATED: Check Out Chris Froome's Pinarello Dogma F10. RELATED: Odds and Race Predictions for This Year's Tour. Conversely, Aru’s decimated Astana squad left the Italian isolated, and he could be seen struggling to hold his position as the race wound itself up for the sprint in Rodez. Stage 11 ended with a fifth sprint victory for Quick-Step’s Marcel Kittel, which means Team Sky’s Chris Froome will wear the 51st yellow jersey of his career as the leader of the 2017 Tour de France. Golden retrievers Golden retriever freaks everyone out by playing dead in the middle of a bath Footage of a golden retriever sleeping in a bathtub and ignoring being poked has gone viral on social media after worried viewers couldn't decide if he was dead or just very relaxed After a third-place finish on Stage 17, Team Sky’s Chris Froome still wears the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the 2017 Tour de France. With four riders in the top-10, Team Sky clearly sent a message to those who doubted the team’s collective strength—especially BMC’s Richie Porte. Despite being completely isolated throughout much of Stage 13, the Italian national champion held onto his six-second advantage over Team Sky’s Chris Froome, winner of three of the past four Tours de France. Smooth ride sees Porte in reach of podium in farewell ‘GC’ Tour de France Veteran Tasmanian is making the most of his last Tour as a protected leader. Now 2:03 behind Froome, Martin’s chances of a podium finish in Paris may have disappeared. Tour de France prizes, winners and total prize pools, by year From 1930 to 1961 plus 1967 … September 13, 2020 Andrew Hood The three-time podium finisher conceded 1:15 to Froome by the finish, and now sits in 8th-place overall, more than two minutes behind the yellow jersey. But on a day in which he displayed no signs of weakness, it might be Froome’s to lose. ), RELATED: Froome Wins 2017 Tour by Less than a Minute. apologised after grabbing a woman’s bottom on the podium. AP June 30, 2017 12:55pm Chris Froome on le Tour podium. Froome still leads the Tour by 18 seconds over Italy’s Fabio Aru and 51 seconds over France’s Romain Bardet. As a result, he’ll keep the maillot jaune for another day. With only one (somewhat ceremonial) stage left in the race, it’s now safe to declare Froome the winner. Cannondale-Drapac’s Rigoberto Uran finished fifth, two seconds behind Froome, and now sits third overall, 29 seconds off the yellow jersey. — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 19, 2017 On the Croix de Fer, Nairo Quintana and Alberto Contador dashed away from the peloton, but Contador ended up … RELATED: In Stage 18, the KoM Was Finally About the Best Climber. The day’s most unfortunate victim was BMC’s Richie Porte, who crashed dramatically on the descent of the Mont du Chat, ending his Tour de France. Contacted by Reuters, AG2R La Mondiale said: “We have seen this interview and the answers of Jan Bakelants, who certainly wanted to be humorous, but in the present case it was very bad taste. @mariealexie13 is that 10 year ago form her first Le Tour de France. Won by Marcel Kittel before Arnaud Démare (2nd) and André Greipel (3rd). It’s there that Froome, by far the strongest time trialist of the Tour’s GC contenders, should put the finishing touches on his fourth Tour de France victory. Bicycling participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Team Sky’s Chris Froome survived the first of two days in the Jura mountains to hold onto the yellow jersey as the leader of the 2017 Tour de France. Staturday, 1 July 2017 – At 14 kilometres, stage 1 in the 2017 Tour de France is a flat endeavour along the banks of the river Rhine in the centre of Düsseldorf. He’s now second overall, just 12 seconds behind Thomas, his teammate. But the Briton finished 25 seconds ahead of Cannondale-Drapac’s Rigoberto Uran and 1:57 ahead of AG2R La Mondiale’s Romain Bardet, the men who entered the day in third- and second-place on the Tour’s General Classification. With the Pyrenees behind them and two cards to play during the Tour’s final week, Sky looks well-positioned to win their fifth Tour de France. The Team Sky rider finished safely in the peloton at the end of Stage 10, which earned him the same finishing time as the day’s winner, Germany’s Marcel Kittel (who took his fourth stage win of the race on Tuesday). Team Sunweb’s Michael Matthews won the green jersey as the winner of the Tour’s Points Classification, and his teammate, Warren Barguil, won the polka dot jersey as the winner of the Tour’s King of the Mountains Classification. He’s certainly capable of defending and extending his lead on Stage 13’s short, mountainous course. Tour de France 2017 ... At the 2013 Tour of Flanders, the now world champion Peter Sagan apologised after grabbing a woman’s bottom on the podium. Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. Team Sky’s Chris Froome survived a flat tire on the day’s big climb to hold onto the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the Tour de France. RELATED: Edvald Boasson Hagen Wins Stage 19 as Froome Marches One Day Closer to Yellow. Quick-Step’s Dan Martin was involved in the crash as well, and while he was able to get back on his bike, he lost 1:15 and fell to 6th-place overall. RELATED: Our Favorite Yellow Cycling Gear, Try These 5 Pike Exercises for a Strong Core, How Indoor Cycling Helped This Man Find Self-Love, Unbound Partnering With Major Taylor Association, This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. PODIUM SIGNATURE - ETAPE 18 / STAGE 18 Live, follow the podium signature in Trie-sur-Baïse and support your favourite riders. On the other hand, Froome’s team is by far the strongest in the Tour, led first and foremost by Mikel Landa, who rode himself into the Tour’s top five on Stage 13. Cyclingnews.com: The world centre of cycling. He still leads the Tour by 12 seconds over his teammate, Geraint Thomas, and by 14 seconds over Astana’s Fabio Aru. The 3-time Tour champ finished 24 seconds ahead of the former overall leader, Astana’s Fabio Aru, on Stage 14’s uphill finish in Rodez. It was one of the most stressful days of the Tour as strong winds made the race hard right from the start. Sunday’s Stage 15 is even harder, with a Category 1 climb 40km from the finish in Le Puy en Velay and another technical run-in to the finish line. 104th Tour de France 2017 / Stage 21 Podium / Christopher FROOME Yellow Leader Jersey / Celebration / Montgeron - Paris Champs-Elysees / TDF / Get premium, high resolution news photos at … Winning a record-tying fifth Tour de France won’t be easy. The day’s other big winner was Bardet. Find out the latest news, stage reports, race scores and expert analysis from the 2017 Tour de France Stage 20. We apologise to the organisers and to those who may have been offended by this remark.”. There were, however, no changes to the Tour’s General Classification. This was by far the most challenging of Froome’s four victories. Froome had no problem following Bardet’s attacks, and his top lieutenant, Spain’s Mikel Landa, was able to respond as well. The stage was won by LottoNL-Jumbo’s Primoz Roglic, a former world-class ski jumper who’s starting to put together quite an impressive resume as a pro cyclist. Find out the latest news, stage reports, race scores and expert analysis from the 2017 Tour de France Stage 18. So while he’s only winning it by 18 seconds, the Tour is still Froome’s to lose. The world champion sits only 25-seconds behind Thomas and took the yellow jersey early in last year’s Tour by winning a stage with a similar finish. But the Tour heads to the Pyrenees on Thursday and Friday, with two hard stages that will give Froome’s rivals another chance to try and steal the yellow jersey. And Team Sky will need to: with a refreshed Quintana, a healthy Porte, and a confident Dumoulin joining this year's strong challengers, Froome will have his hands full. Cyclingnews.com: The world centre of cycling. Unless it’s later revealed that his crash had a bigger impact than it appears, there’s still little reason to doubt that Team Sky has the inside track to win its fifth Tour de France. But Froome’s toughest future challenger didn’t even compete in this year’s Tour. Froome was able to withstand a series of attacks from AG2R La Mondiale’s Romain Bardet on the Col du Galibier, the highest mountain in the 2017 Tour, and picked up four bonus seconds, thanks to his third place finish. Tomorrow’s uphill finish in Longwy doesn’t suit the big German, though, so his chances of earning more bonus seconds and possibly the yellow jersey are slim. Another field sprint means another day in the yellow jersey for Chris Froome, who still leads the 2017 Tour de France. RELATED: How Froome Took Back the Yellow Jersey in Stage 14. The Tour de France organisers will contact Jan Bakelants’ AG2R La Mondiale team to ask him to apologise after the Belgian rider was reported to have made derogatory comments about the race’s ‘podium girls’ in an interview with the Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws. And to underscore how competitive this year’s Tour has been, Cannondale-Drapac’s Rigoberto Uran is fourth, only 29 seconds behind the yellow jersey. Trek-Segafredo’s Alberto Contador was the first favorite to get dropped. Thousands have signed an online petition and a prominent women's rights activist are among those to have criticised the "sexist tradition" of podium girls during the ceremonies at the Tour de France. In 2017, the Vuelta replaced the podium girls a selection of men and women to assist with podium duties A breakaway finally succeeded, with 24-year-old Frenchman Lilian Calmejane taking the win for Direct Energie, but Froome finished safely in the bunch 50 seconds behind him. RELATED: How Aru Swept the Yellow Jersey Away from Froome in Stage 12. Team Sky’s Chris Froome won the Tour de France on Sunday by finishing safely in the peloton at the end of Stage 21. But Wednesday’s Stage 5 finishes atop the la Planche des Belles Filles, a Category 1 climb that will certainly shake things up. I do NOT own this soundtrack, it rightfully belongs to the Amaury Sport Organisation Team Sky’s Chris Froome is back in the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the 2017 Tour de France. With two days left, Froome leads the Tour by 23 seconds over AG2R La Mondiale’s Romain Bardet and 29 seconds over Cannondale-Drapac’s Rigoberto Uran. A better bet to win the stage and possibly take over the lead in the Tour’s General Classification is Bora-Hansgrohe’s Peter Sagan. This is the closest a Tour de France has ever been heading into the final week, with four riders within 29 seconds of one another on the Tour’s General Classification. Porte looked to be capable of challenging Froome all the way to Paris this year, and he'll certainly return to next year's race eager to avenge the demons that sent him home early in 2017.