Hello and welcome back to live coverage of the 102nd edition of the Tour de France - and after a much needed rest day on the apron of the Alps. Today is the first of four successive days in the high Alps, with five climbs on the menu for the 161km ride from Digne-les-Bains to Pra Loup.
Tour de France
Stage 17 | Mountain | Men | 22.07.2015
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Updated 22/07/2015 at 15:14 GMT
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Yellow and white cross the line alongside Rafa Valls of Lampre. Further back, Valverde drops Nibali in the closing moments. Thomas will be the next to cross the line, another 40-odd seconds back.
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Quintana attacks! Froome is the only one who can follow... they have 300m to go.
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Contador did crash because you can see a cut on his right forearm and a tear in his shorts.
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The rest of the break are arriving in dribs and drabs... Teklehaimanot, Majka...
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Contador - riding Sagan's bike - has been unable to rejoin the main favourites on this climb. Quintana put in an attack, but it came to nothing. Nibali has picked up team-mate Westra. It's going to be a stalemate between these guys - although Contador is down and Van Garderen is out.
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Matthias Frank (IAM) is fifth just behind Pinot. Adam Yates seems to have disappeared, so it may be Steven Kruijswijk who takes sixth.
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Fourth for Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) at 1:35. If only he hadn't crashed on the descent it may have been very different...
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Rigoberto Uran (Etixx-QuickStep) crosses the line for third at 1:01.
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Second place for Andrew Talansky (Cannondale-Garmin) - 31 seconds down.
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Victory for Simon Geschke of Giant-Shimano, who roars and punches the air over the finish line, before coming to a prompt stand-still.
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He's been out since 53km to go - what a ride from Simon Geschke today.
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Under the flamme rouge goes Geschke - and only a fall will stop him now. No Kittel? No problem, for Giant-Shimano. He was fourth in Gap, now Geschke will get his win.
1.3km
Valverde and Quintana have Herrada with them now, from the original break, plus Malori. Further back, Contador is riding on his own in pursuit after that mechanical.
1.5km
Cannondale-Garmin will get their third second-place of the Tour. Talansky still 45 seconds down on the leader.
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Talansky is riding with no water bottles, Geschke has one, Pinot two.
2.5km
The big GC favourites have completed the downhill and have started the final 6km climb to the finish.
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Talansky now 55 seconds behind Geschke. The bearded German is gritting his teeth - he will hold on.
4km
Pinot and Frank have dropped Yates. Uran has Talansky in his sights. Back on the descent and it's Valverde who leads, with Froome and Nibali behind, then Quintana.
4.5km
Can Geschke hold on? He has Talansky and Uran in pursuit, plus Pinot, Yates and Frank a bit firther back. The gaps are down to just over a minute.
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Under the 5km-to-go banner for Geschke, who has 2:00 over Talansky. Uran is just behind, while Pinot was also caught by Yates and Frank on that descent - he's about to catch them now on the climb.