Finally, an individual time trail. It's a short one though so this year's Tour will be much more contested in the mountains. If the GC differences are small though, then today will be the final decider. Look at this year's Giro and how exciting the final day was; shouldn't the Tour just have the ITT on Sunday? Who really wants the Champs-Élysées circuits and a champagne parade?
There is one little climb so it's not quite a flat ITT. Who will have survived the three weeks the best and have some energy left for this one? Will it be a specialist like Tony Martin or Primož Roglič? Or will it be a GC contender like Richie Porte or Chris Froome?
Winner: Maciej Bodnar
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Jarlinson Pantano
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Primoz Roglic
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Kung
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Tony Martin
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Froome
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Tony Martin for the win today
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Bora will be so happy; their lost their two aces this Tour and still managed this great victory.
Props also to Michał Kwiatkowski; he's been working so hard for Froome all three weeks and still managed a great ITT.
Roglič apparently had gear problems almost from the start, until we know exactly what it was it's hard to say if he could have won without those problems.
Froome wanted to win this one and failed but I'm sure he'll be happy with his consolation prize; winning the GC. (Also quite funny that all those people who predicted Froome almost every day. failed.. :p)
Uran did quite well apart from hitting the boarding and only just managing to stay upright.
Bardet is the big loser of the day; was he out of energy or was it nerves? Two seconds slower and Sky would have had two men on the podium tomorrow. At least it will give hime more experience for the next years, I can't imagine him failing like this next year.
One more to go! Paris isn't far now. :)
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