Stage 17. Thursday 19th July. Bagnères-de-Luchon → Peyragudes, 143.5km.

ENTRY DEADLINE 13:00 CET

Official site stage information

Steve's preview at Steephill

Stage 16 Results

Palm Pro Cycling took a joint stage win yesterday by picking the winner, and went one better today by picking both Voeckler and Chris Anker Sørensen to take a solo stage win. In two stages, Palm Pro has rocketed from 66th on GC to 11th, and is now within striking distance of the lead.

At the top of the GC, wannabe_scattista drew a blank today, but still holds the casquette jaune. However, the challengers are much closer, foremost among them dallsopp and tgartner thanks to their points today from Voeckler.

In the mountains competition, straw dog (that's me) now leads thanks to points from Sørensen. With one stage to go, the closest challenger is wannabe_scattista, but dallsopp is also a major threat with "queen stage" card still to play.

Link to download Excel spreadheet including all stages

MAIN COMPETITION

MOUNTAINS COMPETITION

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Rules

Pick 3 riders for the stage, the order of your picks doesn't matter.
The points awarded are higher for less popular picks, as follows:

The first 6 riders on a stage score points, 2nd-6th place score 60%, 40%, 30%, 20%, 10% of above.

Entry Deadline

The strict entry deadline is the official start time of the stage - timestamp one minute late, your entry doesn't count for that stage.
Subject to the deadline, you may change any or all of your picks, but only one time, in a single reply to your original post.

Entry Format

On the first three lines of the body of the post write your three riders' surnames only.
Write the surname in full, and nothing else. No nicknames, no abbreviations.
Add first name after the surname only when there's ambiguity (e.g. "Velits, Peter").

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