Tour de France Stage 17 Preview: Last Sprint Duel Before Paris! | Valence Showdown Incoming
The 2025 Tour de France Stage 17 from Bollène to Valence is the final pure sprint opportunity before the peloton heads to the mountains and then Paris. With the Rhône Valley crosswinds threatening chaos and top sprinters like Jonathan Milan, Tim Merlier, and Biniam Girmay hungry for glory, this stage is set for fireworks.
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The tour to France continues with what is sure to be another frenetic fast-paced stage as the race transitions away from province to the high Alps. Stage 16 more than delivered on drama as Valentine Parrot Painter ended the drought of stage wins for the home nation with a victory in a thrilling two-up sprint at top the legendary Mont Vin 2 getting the better of Ireland’s Ben Healey. A parrot painters victory just his third at world tour level marked his maiden tour to France win and ensured the yellow jersey of Tadage Pagakar and his rival Jonas Vinggard were denied glory on one of the tour’s most legendary climbs. The pair were locked together all the way up the climb with Vingguard continually attacking but unable to distance the race leader before Pagakar dropped the DNE in the closing meters to add another two seconds to his overall lead. Vinggard’s frustration was compounded by a crash with a weward photograph in the finish area. Although he did not appear injured 24 year old parrot painters success continued a strong tour for Saddlequickstep who have now won four stages despite the loss of team leader and general classification hopeful Rimco even. How I won that stage is hard to say. I was thinking maybe I can win today. Maybe I’m the best climber in this breakaway. Parrot Painter said afterwards, “I asked my teammates to make a good pace at the bottom and I tried so many times to drop Healey, but he was very strong and at the end I was just waiting for the sprint and then I won. These last few days we went through a little storm I guess and now the sun shines again,” he said in reference to even withdrawal. “It’s really amazing for me and for the team to win another stage, a fourth stage in this tour, then tomorrow it’s a sprint we hope. So we can maybe win again with sprinter Tim Merly. As for Merlier, there’s precious little for the sprinters to enjoy in the final week of the tour to France, having struggled up Mont Vint yesterday and with the prospect of three frankly gruesome days in the Alps still to come. But today is the penultimate chance for the fast men and quite possibly the only clear-cut sprint left in this year’s race. Stage 21 is traditionally, of course, a day for the sprinters with loop after loop of Paris building to a nerve-wracking crescendo and the final launch down the Champs Alise.