STAGE 17
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16
Grenoble › Méribel - Col de la Loze
170KM
Our memories of the 2020 Tour will be coloured in a different into his favoured territory: high mountains in the third week of a grand tour. Pundits grumbled about the team doing Jumbo’s dirty work for them. However, there was method in their madness. Jumbo might have been happier for a steadier tempo, and making it difficult should have suited the resillient Landa. And who knows if the hard pace they set didn’t unsettle intended trajectory to Paris? As fate would have it, Landa faltered, while soared to the win on the vertiginous Loze, ahead of Roglič and At this point, the Tour might have looked a little different, but it was still following the pattern that had been set since Nice.
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