Tour de France 2025 live: Route and updates today with sprinters facing battle to control stage 17 as race heads for the Alps

Pogacar and Vingegaard were locked together all day but the yellow jersey still managed to eke out another two seconds on the line.

Lipowitz cemented his grip on third place overall with another strong ride and now leads Onley by 2’01”.

The Scot himself had a good ride and leads Vauquelin by more than two minutes… but Vauquelin isn’t who he needs to be worried about now, with five-time Grand Tour winner Roglic breathing down his neck at just 38” off the pace.

Roglic has continued his resurgence from the depths of obscurity in the opening week to now looking much more like his usual self.

Further down the standings, Healy didn’t take the stage win but he did re-leapfrog Rodriguez in their intriguing battle for the minor places.

The Dane crashed after the finish on the legendary climb of Mont Ventoux, where he finished second, losing another two seconds to longtime rival and yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar.

“Some photographer just ran straight in front of me straight after the finish line, I don’t know what he was doing,” the Danish rider told media assembled at the finish.

Valentin Paret-Peintre secured the biggest win of his career and a first stage win for the home nation of this year’s Tour de France with a thrilling sprint atop Mont Ventoux.

The 24-year-old edged out breakaway companion Ben Healy in a dramatic two-up sprint for the line, after a slimmed-down group of four came into the final kilometre with the yellow jersey of Tadej Pogacar and rival Jonas Vingegaard breathing down their necks.

Pogacar dealt with every attack attempted by Vingegaard and even put a couple of seconds into him at the finish to add two seconds to his lead, and now sits 4:15 clear in yellow, but stage 16 went to the breakaway at the summit of this most feared of Tour climbs.

1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) in 58:24:46
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma – Lease a Bike) +4:15
3. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe) +9:03
4. Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL) +11:04
5. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe) +11:42
6. Kevin Vauquelin (Arkea – B&B Hotels) +13:20
7. Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +14:50
8. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) +17:01
9. Ben Healy (EF Education – EasyPost) +17:52
10. Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) +20:45

1. Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step) in 4:03:19
2. Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), same time
3. Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) +4”
4. Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) +14”
5. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates – XRG) +43”
6. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma – Lease a Bike) +45”
7. Enric Mas (Movistar) +53”
8. Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) +1’17”
9. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe) +1’51”
10. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-BORA-Hansgrohe) +1’53”

Paret-Peintre’s victory – just his third at WorldTour level – marked his maiden Tour de France win and ensured the yellow jersey of Tadej Pogacar and his rival Jonas Vingegaard were denied glory on one of the Tour’s most legendary climbs.

The pair were locked together all the way up the climb, with Vingegaard continually attacking but unable to distance the race leader, before Pogacar dropped the Dane in the closing metres to add another two seconds to his overall lead. Vingegaard’s frustration was compounded by a crash with a wayward photograph in the finish area, although he did not appear injured.

Today’s stage has a neutralised start time of 1.35pm local time (12.35pm BST), with an expected finish time of 5.10pm local time (4.10pm BST).

There’s precious little for the sprinters to enjoy in the final week of the Tour de France, having struggled up Mont Ventoux 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-Elysees.

But the introduction of several laps of the category-four Montmartre climb has thrown a spanner in the works for the sprinters, meaning that stage 21 could look a lot like stage 11 in Toulouse: in theory a ‘flat’ stage that’s really anything but.

So today’s 160km run from Bollene to Valence may really be last chance saloon – so it seems safe to say, it’ll be a chaotic, frenzied day at the very least.

Bonjour et bienvenue to stage 17 of the Tour de France!

Today’s stage is a classic transitional stage as we head out of Provence and towards the high Alps – but with plenty of teams still sans a stage win, this could come down to the expected sprint, or a breakaway could bag a surprise victory.