Tour de France 2023: Jonas Vingegaard on brink of retaining title after stretching lead on stage 17

Jonas Vingegaard is connected the brink of retaining his Tour de France rubric aft opening up a pb of much than 7 minutes connected a gruelling signifier 17.

Two-time victor Pogacar struggled aft an aboriginal clang connected the queen signifier and was dropped with 15km left.

Felix Gall broke wide to triumph the stage, 34 seconds up of Britain's Simon Yates with Vingegaard fourth.

Vingegaard extended his pb from 10 seconds to astir 2 minutes connected Wednesday but present leads Pogacar by 7 minutes and 35 seconds with 3 stages to spell earlier Sunday's processional signifier to Paris.

Adam Yates remains 3rd successful the wide classification standings but duplicate member Simon's show connected Thursday saw him ascent from eighth wide to fifth.

• Stage 17 - arsenic it happened

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