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Tour de France 2022 - How to watch Stage 17 on Wednesday, TV and live stream details, timings and route map

The first of back-to-back summit finishes in the Pyrenees is this achingly beautiful and brutally arduous ring-of-fire to Peyragues via the Col d’Arpin, Hourquette d’Ancizan and Col de Val Louron-Azet. Near the top of the Peyresourde, the riders will swing to the right and join the road to this Tour’s third airstrip finale at Peyragudes. Alejandro Valverde (2012) and Romain Bardet (2017) are the only previous winners on this gravity-defying ramp.

Alejandro Valverde under observation in hospital following a hit-and-run incident during a training ride in Spain

Former world champion and Movistar rider Alejandro Valverde has been hospitalised after being the victim of a hit-and-run incident during a training run on Saturday morning. Valverde was joined by two friends on the ride in Murcia, Spain, who were also hospitalised, but Movistar have reported neither rider received any serious injuries or fractures. Ad/> The 42-year-old is set to remain in hospital under observation for 24 hours.

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Hirt triunfa en Aprica en otro combate nulo de los favoritos

Lo que hoy parecía posible, tampoco pudo ser. Se distanció Lennard Kämna en el descenso del Teglio. Y uno a uno, por este orden, le soltaron en la subida al Valico di Santa Cristina: Thymen Arensman, Jan Hirt y Hugh Carthy. Los años no perdonan… Pero para aplaudir el esfuerzo de un Alejandro Valverde que, desde la fuga, nos hizo soñar con que podría acabar con la sequía de victorias que arrastra el ciclismo español en grandes vueltas (91 etapas sin ganar). No pudo ser. con su tercera conquista en 2022 y devolvió la alegría a un Intermarché huérfano de estrella tras el surrealista abandono de Girmay. La batalla entre los gallos resultó en un Blockhaus 2.0, con Richard Carapaz y Jai Hindley (el ecuatoriano es líder con sólo 3 segundos de renta) como los más fuertes y un Mikel Landa voluntarioso que se acerca al podio tras recortar unos segundos sobre João Almeida. Las opciones, para cualquiera de los cuatro, siguen intactas.

Blazin’ Saddles: Bora target Carapaz, Landa on the charge - Things to look out for in final week of the Giro d’Italia

A week ago the top 12 riders were separated by 1min 27sec; now there’s a chasm of over nine minutes between Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz in pink and the Czech climber Jan Hirt down in twelfth. Realistically, only five riders can now win this Giro, with just one minute separating Carapaz and Hirt’s Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert teammate Domenico Pozzovivo in fifth.

Simon Yates, Richard Carapaz and him?! - Five big winners from Stage 14 thriller at Giro d'Italia

Stage 14 of this year’s Giro was always going to be one to watch. Plenty of pundits had the second Saturday circled in their calendar long before the race had started constructing its Hungarian grande partenza, let alone arrived in mainland Italy. Yet even as the short, punchy Piedmontese profile invited aggressive riding, and promised to reward risk-taking, few could have predicted the devastating effect it would have on the general classification.

‘You’re not allowed to do that!’ – Did Alejandro Valverde break golden rule of cycling at Giro d’Italia?

Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) caused a stir on Stage 14 at the Giro d’Italia after appearing to flout the rules during a bike change. The Spaniard was 10th in the general classification ahead of Saturday’s run from Santena to Torino, but soon found himself among the chasers after the peloton was ripped to shreds by Bora-hansgrohe. Ad/> Amid the fight to claw back time, Valverde was spotted peeling off from his group and immediately hopping on a bike that was waiting for him from a team car parked on the side of the road.

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Tour de France 2022 - How to watch Stage 17 on Wednesday, TV and live stream details, timings and route map

Alejandro Valverde under observation in hospital following a hit-and-run incident during a training ride in Spain

Premio doble para Vuillermoz

Hirt triunfa en Aprica en otro combate nulo de los favoritos

Blazin’ Saddles: Bora target Carapaz, Landa on the charge - Things to look out for in final week of the Giro d’Italia

Simon Yates, Richard Carapaz and him?! - Five big winners from Stage 14 thriller at Giro d'Italia

‘You’re not allowed to do that!’ – Did Alejandro Valverde break golden rule of cycling at Giro d’Italia?

Etapa 14: clasificaciones del día y así queda la general del Giro