Courchevel (France), (EFE).- The Austrian Felix Gall culminated in the goal of Courchevel, the last alpine stage of the Tour de France, a long escape achieving the most important victory of his career, while the Danish Jonas Vingegaard strengthened his victory in the Tour after the collapse of the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.
The Spanish Carlos Rodríguez moved away from third place after losing 1.11 with respect to the British Adam Yates, with a great mountain stage to go.
But the news was the bird of Pogacar, winner of the 2020 and 2021 editions, who one day after losing 1.38 in the time trial suffered a collapse on the ascent to Col de la Loze and entered the finish line more than 5 minutes late on the yellow jersey, which he now has at 7.35.
The 24-year-old UAE rider thus said goodbye to the fight to win his third Tour and at one point gave orders to his team to work so that Yates could finish third in Paris.
The Briton did his homework and consolidated his position on the podium, where he now has a margin of 1.16 compared to Rodríguez, who could not keep up with the best on the ascent to Loze, despite having put his team to work on the first ramps of that port.
The 22-year-old Ineso cyclist had given third place to Yates in the time trial on Tuesday and in the last alpine stage he fell a little further away.
The victory of the stage went to Gall, 25, a debutant in the Tour, who had been third in the first Pyrenean stage, ending in Laruns, and who distanced himself from the rest of the breakaways at the Col de la Loze, the last of the day, which he crowned in the lead before launching into a frantic descent to the finish line of stage 17.
Pursued by the British Simon Yates, the AG2R rider managed a lead of about 20 seconds at the finish line.
The other twin of the Yates is fifth overall, just 18 seconds behind Rodríguez.
The first Spaniard to finish was Pello Bilbao, who is now sixth overall, 31 seconds behind Yates.