Tour de France stage 17: St Gaudens > Pla d'Adet, 124.5kms
The Katusha team is doing all the crazy chasing, but it will bring the escape to-heel on the first climb...
Arashiro and Gauthier are trying to keep the escape ahead, but a new move is coming from behind...
De Marchi leads Rodriguez and Mollema as the big escape forms...
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Luke Durbridge is one of many feeling the pace and heat at the foot of the Col de Peyresourde, but he had fallen off on the Portillon summit..!
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Svein Tuft is in trouble too -but for a new wheel, as well as the heat...
Nico Roche is trying to get across to Kiryienka with Herrera on his wheel...
The Astana team chases four minutes back with Grivko and Iglinsky at the front...
The small peloton climbs to Val Louron, with the gap down to about three-minutes now...
Roche and the others are closing-in on Kiryienka on Val Louron, he'll be caught before the top...
Giovanni Visconti is pulling away at the front of the race, but Nico Roche won't let him go..!
Jurgen Van den Broeck is chasing Visconti and Roche, while Bardet closes in on them from behind...
Peraud senses his chances for the G.C and pushes harder - only Nibali can stay with him...
Nibali takes his turn at the front, knowing that Valverde and Pinot have been dropped already...
Pinot, Van garderen and Bardet are trying to put more time into Valverde with three-kilometres to go...
