Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 17

Breaking down how the Queen Stage of the 2023 Tour was won and what the contenders can learn from the rapidly deteriorating GC competition

Felix Gall won the Queen Stage of the 2023 Tour de France with an impressive climb of the brutal Col de la Loze to hold off a surging Jonas Vingegaard and daredevil descent into Courchevel to keep a lingering Simon Yates at bay, on stage 17. While Gall, who deftly worked his way into the early breakaway, was able to stay out of the messy GC battle behin…