Overview
- EF Education’s Michael Valgren won the 17th stage from a morning break with a late one-kilometre attack that beat a small group to the line.
- Jonas Vingegaard retained the pink jersey and leads the general classification by a little more than four minutes over Felix Gall with Thymen Arensman in third.
- Vingegaard has dominated the high mountains with repeated solo summit wins and has amassed ten victories already this season.
- Team work shaped key moves in the final climbs when domestique Davide Piganzoli set a hard pace then shelled out to let Vingegaard launch his decisive effort.
- The race still includes two major mountain stages before the finish in Rome, leaving room for tactical shifts but making Vingegaard the clear favorite based on current form.