Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) is so close to sealing his fifth consecutive green jersey at the Tour de France that he can almost taste it. In fact, the world champion has accumulated enough points that all he needs to do now is finish the race in Paris.
Sagan rode into another breakaway during stage 17, the first day in the Alps held from Berne to the summit of Finhaut-Emosson that overlooked Lac d'Emosson dam in the Swiss-French Alps.
The breakaway started with 11 with Sagan and teammate Rafal Majka, along with Tanel Kangert (Astana), Stef Clement and Jarlinson Pantano (IAM), Kristjian Durasek (Lampre-Merida), Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal), Domenico Pozzovivo (AG2R), Steve Morabito (FDJ), Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha) and Brice Feillu (Fortuneo-Vital Concept). It swelled to 14 riders as a second grip bridge across with Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), and Thomas Voeckler (Direct Energie).
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There was only one intermediate sprint during the 184.5km stage, and it was at the 150km mark in Martigny. Sagan picked up the 20 points he pursued, which increased his total to 425 in the green jersey points classification, a whopping 197 more than runner-up Marcel Kittel (Etixx-QuickStep) and 269 ahead of Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie).
His closest runner-up in the points classification following stage 16, Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data), abandoned the Tour during the second rest day on Tuesday in order to focus on the upcoming Olympic Games.
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