Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stag༒e 16 of the Tour de France.

Today's 169km stage sees the peloton take on four classified climbs, but it looks more like a day suited to the br♈eakaway then a big GC battle given the summit finishes to come over the next two days.

The map o🃏f today's stage. Note the blue section at the start – that's a very long 19.1-kilometre neutral zone as the riders head down from Andorra to the start.

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The climbs on today's stage are:

• Col de Port (11.4km at 5.1 per cent)
• Col de la Core (13.1km at 6.6 per cent)
• Col de Portet-d'Aspet  (5.4km at 7.1 per cent)
• Côte d'Aspret-Sarrat (0.8km at 8.4 per cent)

There are no major (first or second category) climbs in the last 50km of the stage, however, so any big moves on the last major climb – the Portet d'Aspe🌊t – are unlikely to succeed.

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Today's stage staဣrts in an hour's time and the riders are currently signing 🐭on in the start village in Andorra.

The CPA has announced that riders will stop for a few minutes at KM0 to take layers off after✨ descending through the neutral zone from around 2,000 metres altitude to the real s🔯tart at 1,134 metres.

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Today's start point...

20 minutes to the start of stage 16.

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Today is the highest stage start in Tourꦉ de France history. At 2,080 metres it's higher than Sestrieres in 1992 (2,035 metres).

The riders roll out at the start.

🥀Vincenzo Nibali and Amund Grøndahl Jansen are the two men who haven't taken the 🌌start today.

They're aroud halfway through the neutral zone♈ now. 10km to go and it's all downhill📖.

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The riders have stopped now as they reach the end of the neutral zone. They're ta🌃king off their jackets and warmers ahead of🤪 the real start.

And now they're rolling again.

The fl🐟ag drops and racing on stage 16 is underway.

There are several attacks from th💜e start, including from Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-QuickStep).

163km to go

Just Asgreen off the front at the moment.

He has 30 seconds on the peloton as they desce🌌nd down the Pas de la Case.

155km to go

Asgreen st♍ill the only man out front at the moment. No other moves going yet.

Now riders stꦕart to 🌜attack on the front. Asgreen 50 seconds up the road.

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Riders union requested a brief stop for riders to remove🍨 layers

Attack from Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) now.

Casper Pedersen (Team DSM) joins him in the move.

142km to go

Asgreen is 1:20 up on the peloton currently.

Stuyven and P⭕edersen aren't makin🦹g much headway yet.

The chasing pair have 20 seconds on the peloꦕton but they're still 1:20♏ down on Asgreen.

More attacks fly in the peloton in the valley.

AG2R, Cofidis, TotalEnergies amonng t🥃hose on the move.

131km to go

Back uphill now as the riders climb to t🌄he base of the Col de Port.

Asgreen has 1:15 on the chase and a fu𓂃rther 30 seconds 💙on the peloton.

Nobody else a🍸way from the peloton ye꧟t. Just the trio out front.

Pedersen and Stuyven aree almost caught.

1:30 between Asgreen and the rest.

126km to go

Jesus Herrada (Cofidis)🌞 and Casper Pedersen (DSM) having a go now.

Asgreen starts the seconnd-cat Col de Porte.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) pushes on the front of the peloton ౠnow.

It's raining now, by the way.

Asgreen still the only man to get away from the p🌼eloton. Riders contಌinue to attack.

Around 15 men off the front now as more chase.

122km to go

They can't get a gap though. 

Moꦬhoric, 𝐆Geschke, Juul-Jensen, Rolland, Guerreiro, Ballerini among those trying to move.

Guerreiro is leading the move.

Asgreen's lead is down to 1:10.

Michał Kwiatkowski and Mattia Cattaneo also up there.

Kwiatkowski and Cattaneo have a gap.

Cavendish is offℱ the back now alongꦉ with three teammates.

Asgreen still alone out front. He has 20 seeconds on Kwiatkowski and Cattaneo as the peloton lies 50 sec💙onds back.

Mig💧uel Angel Lopez tr꧙ied a move but he was chased down, with race leader Tadej Pogacar at the front of the peloton.

118km to go

Aurelien Paret-Peintre (AG2R) is on the move ꧒with Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels) asꦇ they chase the leaders. More attacks behind on the climb.

UAE s🐽𝓰hut down a move with McNulty and Pogacar closing things down.

Kwiatkꦛowski and Catta♛neo catch Asgreen 3km from the top of the climb.

Alaphilippe is on the move in the peloton now♛, ღamong a few others.

50 seconds between the lead trio and the peloton.

Teuns, Konrad, Paret-Peintre, Bonnamour, Gaudu, Higuita, Lopez, Meintjes, Fraile all trying to get awaꦗy.

115km to go

1km to the top of the climb for the leaders.

Cattaneo leads the break over the top of the climb. Five ꩵpoints for him takes his total to 18 for the race, 56 points down on KOM leader Wout Poels.

A maximum 16 points remain on the stage.

It's not really worth listing the chasers at this point given they're♔ just a few seconds up on the peloton over the top.

Just 25 seconds between the break and peloton as they tackಞle the wet descent.

105km to go

BikeExchange among those leading the peloton down the descent. Th🐓ey'll be aiming for the intermediate sprint with Michael Matthews in 20km.

Asgreen, Cattaneo and Kwiatkow🧸ski have been caught.

100km to go

൲Three minutes ba🦋ck to Cavendish's group. No breakaway yet.

Splits in the peloton towards the🔯 end of the descent. Fraile and Alaphilippe among those trying to move off the front♈.

Colbrelli and Matthews at the front now. 10km to t💧he sprint.

Majka and Porte amon🔯g a group of around 30 men dropped in that split. They're 1:30  down.

91km to go

They're still going downhill, though it's a gentler gradient than it was ofꦰf the mountain towards the intermediate sprint.

Chris Juul-Jensen pushes on at the front followed by a couple o✅f other riders. Not much of a gap, though.

Jan Bakelants (Intermarche-Waꦓnty) and Fabien Doube🌊y (TotalEnergies) are away with Juul-Jensen.

Meanwhile, Bjerg, Majka and Stake Laengen are chasing on in that group of drop♌ped riders. That's three teammates of Pogacar missing the split. 

45 seconds for that trio. 

The group isn'♔t as exciting as the Asgreen-Cattaneo, Kwi💦atkowski group, is it...

No idea why BikeExchange have sent Juu꧟l-Jensen up the road so close to the intermediate 💮sprint??

Surely it would've been a better idea to work on the front, stop breakaways from goingꩵ and then sprint with Matthews.

Bakelants takes 20 points at the int🌸ermediate sprint ahead of Doubey and Juu🅠l-Jensen. 

Matthews takes 13 points from 🎐the ⛄peloton less than 20 seconds later.

What are BikeExchange doing?

The peloton has dropped further back now, almost two minutes behind💃. Matthews, Colbrelli, Konr🐼ad, Bonnamour, Rota and Cosnefroy are chasing the lead trio.

It looks like BikeExchange could be going 🎐for the stage with Matthews? Still, a weird decision to just throw away seven points lik🦄e that.

Juul-Jensen, Bakelants, Doubey🐬 lead 30 seconds ahead o🅘f larger group...

Matthews, Colbrelli, Wright, Konrad,ꦚ Bonnamour, Rota, Cosnefroy, Perichon, Gaudu, Aranburu, Skuijins are all in there.

They should all come together soon, though.

Almost four minutes fu🉐rther back, the dropped riders have come back to the peloton.

78km to go

The break are on the f🌜irst-category 💎Col de la Core now.

UAE Team Emirates control t🐲he peloton with five men around Pogacar.

45kph average so far.

A minu🗹te between the lead trio and the rest now. Not great by the chasers...

Konrad makes a move from the chꦡase group, who have done an awful job chasing on this climb so far.

Konrad 25 seconds down. The rest at 40 seconds.

Konrad is making headway on the cli🤡mb. He's 15 seconds back now.

71km to go

Konrad makes it across.

The rest of the 'chasers' remain 45 seconds down.

The second group is ♉still makinng absolutely no headway, 3km from the top of the climbᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ.

Gaudu pushes🐠 on in the chase group as Juul-Jensen is dropped♔ at the front.

Gaud൩u has brought the gap down to 25 seconds. He has Colbrelli, Bonnamour andꦗ Skujins with him.

I'll hand over to Stᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚephen Farrand now as EF Education-Nippo take over at the front of the peloton and a number of riders – including KOM leadeܫr Wout Poels – get dropped.

As the break goes over the Col de la Core, Konra🎉d takes maximum points.

The other riders are spread down the road andsꦍ forced to fight into a stiff win🐭d. 

That will be another factor affecting the fight for the stage victory and🌟 in the peloton.

Why are EF riding on the front of the🧔 peloton? 

Simples. Their second💛 place, and perhaps first place in Paris, in the teams classification is in danger. 

Bahrain Victorious lead the team competition by 11:37 aꦐnd they have Sonny Colbrelli and Fred Wright in the bre🔯ak.

EF Education-Nippo stilꦉl have eight riders and so are using their strength today.

Neilson Powless is riding o💧n the front at th𒅌e moment. 

EF are riding🌸 to protect Rigoberto Uran's ꦬfight for a podium spot and the team prize.  

Thanks to the westerly wind, ꦏthe roads have dried out. That makes descending safer and easier.

The chasers are just👍 30🍌 seconds down on the leading trio.  

They  should soon come 𓆉together on the slopes of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet.

The peloton is at 7:00.

EF riding is helping give the UAE team a break from the h💯ard work on the front  of the peloton.

Mark Cavendish is also not far behind the pelo🐈ton as he tries to survive i🤡n the Pyrenees.  

He is a 10-rider group at 10:15 and so sh𒉰ould have no problem fin𝕴ishing inside the time limit.  

50km to go

Fred Wright of Bahrai♕n returns to the chase group. He is the youngest rider in this year's Tour peloton at just 22 and 14 days old at the start of the Tour. 

The racing up front is fascinating. 

Fabien Doubey (Team TotalEnergies), Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Jan Bakelants, (Intermarché-Wanty Gobಞert) lead by 30 seconds but the others will surely catch them soon and then fight over the climb and the descend and flat road to Daint-Gaudens.  

The better climbers wil🌌l be trying to distance Colbrelli and Matthews. But both have teammates to help them. 

Only Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citro&e♊uml;n) has been dropped and is slipping back to the pack. 

In the peloton, riders are eatꩲing a🅷nd look relaxed even as they approach the Col de Portet-d'Aspet. 

Once over the 🥂summit of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet, the riders will pass the Fabio Casartelli memorial, that remembers the late Italian rider, who tragically crashed and died during the 1995 Tour.  

Click the link below to see a moving interview with Casartelli's mothღer made by Incycle💞 in 2014. 

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The attackers go through Saint-Lary and so begin to climb the 5.4km long Col de P🍷ortet-d'Aspet. 

Doubey, Bakelants and Korad are still 30 clear of the chasers as the pelo♈ton lose more ground and🌠 are at 9:00.   

As t𝔍he climb hurts, Doubey is distanced as K🐎onrad pushes on alone. 

꧒There is still 36km to race but he 🀅is going all in. 

K𓄧onrad knows he has to gain or hold as to much as time as possible on the best climbers like Gaudu. 

Here we go! 

Gaudu accelerates in pursuit of Konrad.  

Gaudu is dancing on the pedals in his climber's 🥃style. However Colbrelli is on his whee𝔉l, while the others slip back. 

Konrad 🌠crosses the summit of the Col de Portet-d'Aspet alone. 

However Gaꦡudu and Colbrell♏i are only 20 seconds behind.  

The roads are wet for the descent. 

Th♚e pꦫeloton is at 11:00 minutes aa Wout van Aert needs a bike change.  

He should not have any problems getting back on.

Konrad leads the face  🙈;past the Fabio Casartel☂li memorial. 

RIP in peace Fabio. 

Colbrelli goes wide on a corner but is taking the descent ca꧙refღully. 

Gaud�💧�u waits for him, knowing they can work together to chase Konrad.

Konrad has opened his lead on Gaudu and Colbrelli to 40 seconds on th𒈔e descent. 

Now he faces a 23km solo race to the finish.

W📖ill the other riders from the attack also manage to catch him? 

The pursuit is on.

The peloton crosse🧔s t🃏he Col de Portet-d'Aspet at 12:00.  

Tadej Pogacar i✅🍸s up near the front to avoid any problems.

Konrad is going d🎃eep to stay away from Gaudu and Colꦦbrelli. 

The peloton has also passed the Casartell🧸i memorial.

Colbrelli is now helping Gaudu with the chase of Konrad but the Austrian national chamဣpion is still 45 seconds clear. 

It's advantage Konrad.

The other seven chasers are at 1:05. 

Konrad has extended hi𓂃s lead to 1:00 as the seven catch Ga𝕴udu and Colbrelli. 

He faces 13.5km of solo effort.

All the peloton ma🦄ke it safely down th♈e descent. 

The peloton has slipped to 13:00. 

All the GC contenders are ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚclearly thinking of the two mountain finishes to come.

10km to go

Konrads leads by 1:05 as the ﷺfinal steep but short Côte d🔯'Aspret-Sarrat climb nears.

Konrad ꧑starts the Côte d'Aspret-Sarrat💯 and digs deep. 

His lead is still increasing and he is pu🃏shing what𓄧 looks like a 53x25 gear. Yep, he is climbing in the big ring. 

Behind they seem to be🐬 r🌃iding for second place. 

Gaudu attacks but he is chased down. 

Konrad dives down the descent. His lead is down to 50 seconds but he is only 5km from the 🍸finish.

Konrad'🌜s effort has earned him the 🎃Combatif du Jour prize.

Bravo! 

The wet road are slowing the chasers. Konrad is on his way ༒to victory.  

2km to go. 

The chasers are attacking each other, fighting for scrap of glory. However Colbrelli and Mathews want to score as many points possible to close the gap🧸 on Cavendish in the points competition.

Last KM

Konrad begins to celebrate his solo win.

Konrad celebratesꦦ with his Bora team car and then pushes on alone to the finish line. 

He eas🍃es up and celebrates a perfectly executed stage win.&ꦬnbsp;

Perichon has a gap but they go after him. 

Colbre𝐆lli and Matthews catch and pa꧅ss him before the line. 

Theꦺy t๊ake a haul of points but wanted the stage win. 

Here's the mo𒊎ment Konrad went away from his rivals.

Matthews is confirmed in third place. 

This is the top ten for the stage:

1 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 04:01:59
2 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 00:00:42
3 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 00:00:42
4 Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fra) Cofidis 00:00:42
5 Franck Bonnamour (Fra) B&B Hotels p/b KTM 00:00:42
6 Alex Aranburu Deba (Spa) Astana-Premier Tech 00:00:42
7 Toms Skujins (Lat) Trek-Segafredo 00:00:45
8 Jan Bakelants (Bel) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 00:00:45
9 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 00:00:47
10 Lorenzo Rota (Ita) Intermarch&eacuꦐte;-Want꧂y-Gobert Matériaux 00:01:03

Three national champions have now won a stage of this year's Tour de France: Matej Mohoric (Slovenia), Wout van Aert (Belgium) and now Patrick Konrad (Austria).

Patrick Konrad is the first Austrian stage winner in Tour de France since 2005, when Georg Totschn﷽ig🧜 won16 years ago. 

The first Austrian winner was Max Bulla back in 1931 (3). They are💦 the only three Austrian winners.

 Van Aert has attacked over𝄹 the top of the c&oci🌳rc;te d'Aspret-Sarrat. 

Jumbo-Visma seem to be trying to split the pel✱oton aཧnd gain some time on their top ten rivals.

It is unlikely to succeed but will no do🎀ubt spark debate in the peloton. 

There are 40 or so riders in t💙he front group.&💯nbsp;

Surely no one﷽ in the top 120 has missed this surge? 

Van Aert keeps going. 

Carapaz is there. All the to꧑p ten seem to be there. 

2.5km to go.

Perhaps van Aert is just keeping Vingegaard ಌsafe and their rivals on their toes. 

There are only a dozen or so riders in the Pogacar ✤group.&nbs🌄p;

It will be interesting to see the reaction of the rᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚiders to Van Aert after the finish.

Some will not be amused. 

They sprint but are 13: 49

Carapaz wins the 'sprint' b♉ut Pogacar is there too. 

All the GC riders had to s💝print too to ensure there is not a time gap in the result🐼s.

This is the general cl🌜assification after stage 16:

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 66:23:06
2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:18
3 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 0:05:32
4 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:33
5 Ben O'Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 0:05:58
6 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:06:16
7 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech 0:07:01
8 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team 0:07:11
9 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:08:02
10 Pello Bilbao Lopez 🦋Deও Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious 0:10:59

Sonny Colbrelli won the sp🅰rintও for 2nd but he was not happy with that. 

"This was my last chance to win a stage. It’s a pity it didn’t come off. I can only con𒊎gratulate Konrad because he was really strong," the Italian national champion said. 

"Me and Guadu wo🅺rked well together, swapping turns perfectly but he got away from us. 

"I was second again, passing the 🌺Cofidis rider on the line. That shows I’m feeling good but I’ve struggled in the bunch sprints, losing position and so points.

"Now I just want to make it to Paris."

Colbrelli waved hi꧙s hand in disappointment as 🌠he finished the stage.

Patrick Konrad was in a far happier mood than Colbrelli.&🍌nbsp;

"It's my first win in the WorldTour and now it's at the bigge🙈st race in the world - I've won a stage in the Tour de Franc✱e so I'm really speechless," the Austrian said. 

"The victory is for my family,  my friends, all my believers, and also for Bora-Hansgrohe. They a꧃lways give me the trust for it, and they always told me to fight for it, you have the legs for it, you have the talent for this." 

"𓃲I think it came really in the🌠 right moment in the champion's jersey, to win a stage here makes me really proud."

Konrad explained his attack.

"I was already three times in the break and I was always waiting until the final, and it was always🌟 not the best decision because we saw it when Mohoric won the stag꧅e he went really early," he said.

"When Mollema, at🥃tacked, he went really early. I said to myself 'OK, when I come one more time in this situation I am the guy'. 

"I gave it a༒ try and I'm really happy that it worked out and I had the legs to bring it to the fin💖ish.

"When I passed the 1k line I saw the uphill part and I was thinking, 'this will be painful again', but there was some time to celebrate. I really beli🍌eved in it 500m to go when the sports director passed me. 

"I'm s🦩uper super happy. I think I can re🐻ally enjoy this moment now."

Colbrelli and Matthews are disappointed not to win the stage but they did eat into Mark Cavendish's lꦫead in the points classification. 

This is the new top three: 

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Deceuninck-QuickStep 279
2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange 242
3 Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain Victorious 195.

It will be a real battle for every point between here and Paris.  Bo🐎th intermediate sprints on stage 17 and 18 become before the major climbs, while sta𝄹ge 19 is a day for the sprinters if they can keep the race together. 

Then there is the finish on the Champs Elysees in Paris that could favour Cavendish and Deceuninck-QuickStep.🌠  

Konrad was all smiles on t𝄹he podium. He als🧸o won the most combatif prize as he took his first WorldTour win. 

Meanwhile Tadej Pogacar stayed in yell𝔍ow, he and his UAE te🌼am virtually unchallenged today. 

However Pogacar is staying cautious.

"It was a really hard day, we star🥀ted with super cold weather. The fight for the breakaway was again pretty big, the first two hours we were just flyin🌺g. Then it settled down but in the end, fireworks again. So it was quite a hectic day, quite hard," he said.

Pogacar made sure he was there when van Aert attacked with Vingegaard but couldn't understanꦆd why the move꧒ was made. 

"I🌠 don't know, I just follow the wheels," he saiౠd. 

"I have no idea wha♛t we were doing, but it was good to open the legs for tomorrow.

"Even if it's flat as a pancake you need to be concentrated and focused because that♑'s cycling."

Pogacar is concerned but 🦂enthusiastic  about Wednesday's  hard finale and mountain finish on the 🌜Col du Portet. 

"Tomorrow I think i🥂s the hardest day in the Tour, let's hit it," he said. 

"I did the recon of tomorr๊ow and the day after, so I know the climbs. It would be better if I did not s🍌ee. I'm not worried but it's going to be really hard."

These are four jersey wearers after toda📖y's stage.

Who do🧜 you think will ride into 𒐪Paris in yellow? 

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Israel Start-Up Nation) believes that, unless 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) crashes, the battle for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France is over and the Slovenian♔ will d🍬efend the title that he won in 2020.

Click below for the full story on🍸 the four-time Tour winner.&nb𓆉sp;

Chris Froome: If Pogacar stays on his bike this Tour de France is over

Stage 16 w🍌as a day of tactics, aggressive riding by Konrad and the wait for the two mountain finishes.  

Read our full stage report by clicking belo💜w. 

Tour de France: Konrad solos to victory on stage 16 

Is this a a new "The L🅘ook" ? Carapaz sprinted to the line after van Aert split the peloton on a late climb but Pogacar was right there and laugh♎ing about it all. 

We will perhaps find 🍷out on Wednesday 🐈on the stage to the Col du Portet.

The 178.4km stage is essentially the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2018 stage that first introduced the Col du Portet to the wider cycling world but with a comparatively flat 113-kilometre section replacing the F1 start grid that was the nܫovelty/gimmick at the start of that short day that ended with Nairo Quintana taking the honours.

The stage starts just to the south of Toulouse at Muret and heads south-west acros𒈔s the plain, passing through the previous day’s finish town of Saint-Gaudens. 

Once through it, the riders will quickly be onto the first slopes of the Col de Peyresourde and will have barely any flat road ahead of them before the finish.&nb꧙sp;

The fast descent away from the Peyresourde drops into Loudenvielle, where the riders will find themselves on the flat very briefly as they circle the lake to reach꧒ the foot of the Col d’Azet. Although not much more than half the length of the Peyresourde, its ave♛rage of 8.3% makes it more challenging, especially on the steeper sections on its lower slopes. 

The riders will rattle through Saint-Lary-Soulan and they’ll soon arrive at th𓆏e right turn onto the final climb, which averages 8.7% for 16km. 

The opening couple of kilometres are a point or two higher than that mean, the road clambering quickly up the mountainside to Espiaube, where a left turn heads ꧋for the ski station of Pla d’Adet. 

🌳The route heads right, though, soon reaching a narrow and steep road that climbs rapidly via a series of tight switchbacks. 

Thanks f🅠or joining us today,ꦍ we'll be back on Wednesday for all the action and analysis from stage 17.