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By far the weakest time trialist of the Tour’s overall contenders, the Frenchman lost second-place overall to Uran, but held onto a podium spot—by Team Sky’s Chris Froome finished safely in the peloton at the end of Stage 19, and therefore still wears the yellow jersey as the leader of the With only Saturday’s individual time trial remaining before the Tour’s traditional promenade into Paris on Sunday, Froome looks set to take the fourth Tour de France victory of his career. The Tour’s second Rest Day couldn’t come at a better time, as they’ll need all the rest they can get following four hard days of racing in the Pyrenees and Massif Central. Despite Froome’s small advantage, his team is packed with climbers and is relatively fresh after two easy sprint stages. Cyclingnews.com: The world centre of cycling. Austragung des wichtigsten Etappenrennens im Straßenradsport.Der Grand Départ fand am 1. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Froome should also expect a more serious challenge from Movistar’s Nairo Quintana (a three-time podium finisher at the Tour), who suffered through the worst Tour de France of his career after a second-place finish in May’s Tour of Italy. In fact, the Tour’s two individual time trials were all Froome really needed: his winning margin came entirely thanks to time gained during Winning a record-tying fifth Tour de France won’t be easy. He’s lost two of his strongest teammates in the past three days, and now faces the prospect of defending the yellow jersey without anyone to support him in the mountains. His lead is small, but he’s a much better time trialist than the men closest to him on the Tour’s GC. As an added twist, Quintana might be joined at Movistar by Mikel Landa, who this year finished fourth despite riding in support of Froome at And then there's Richie Porte, who crashed out of the race in spectacular fashion on But Froome’s toughest future challenger didn’t even compete in this year’s Tour. Tour de France.

The only question that remains is which riders will join him on the podium in Paris.After a third-place finish on Stage 17, Team Sky’s Chris Froome still wears the With only one more day in the mountains (and four more days in the race), Chris Froome and Team Sky look to be firmly in control of the As the race heads into the Alps, the top-4 riders on the Tour’s General Classification are exactly where they were at the start of Stage 16 with Froome, Froome’s team has been the biggest reason why the three-time Tour champ remains on the verge of a fourth victory, but on Stage 15 they went deep to get Froome back to the front after his flat tire on the lower slopes of the Category 1 Col de Peyra Taillade. Froome’s leading the race for now, but with Froome once again occupies the driver’s seat of the 2017 Aru still leads the Tour, but his team has been decimated.

Barring a crash, sickness, or a mechanical, Froome has effectively won the race. Froome was joined on the Tour’s final podium by second-place finisher Rigoberto Uran (Cannondale-Drapac) and third-place finisher Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale). But on a day in which he displayed no signs of weakness, it might be Froome’s to lose.Froome is still in the driver’s seat, but his team used a lot of energy to keep its captain safe during a difficult Stage 8. Cannondale-Drapac’s Rigoberto Uran finished fifth, two seconds behind Froome, and now sits third overall, 29 seconds off the yellow jersey.The 2017 Tour de France exits the high mountains on Friday, which means the best chance for Froome’s rivals to close the gap to the yellow jersey has passed. Juli 2017 mit einem 13 Kilometer langen Einzelzeitfahren erstmals in der Geschichte der Tour de France in Düsseldorf statt. Damit war der Auftakt zum vierten Mal nach 1965 in Köln, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main und 1987 in West-Berlin in Deutschland. Dumoulin, a Dutchman despite his French-sounding last name, is younger, almost as good of a climber, and an even better time trialist than Froome.Even if it loses Landa this off-season, Froome's team will certainly surround its leader with the best support riders money can buy.