Brandon McNulty shocked the cycling world in Tour de France Stage 17, doing one of the best climbing performances this year, dropping almost every GC contender on Col d’Azet except his teammate Tadej Pogacar and crucially the race leader Jonas Vingegaard.
Tour de France stage 17 2022 profile by La Flamme Rouge
Stage 17 was a hard stage with multiple 20 minute mountains of 7-8% gradient. The pace on climbs was high from the start. According to Sepp Kuss’ power data, he did 5.63 w/kg for 30:14 on the first climb and 5.52 w/kg for 19:22, combined for the next two climbs, including a 1 minute descent.
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Stage 18 will be the last mountain stage in this Tour. It will end with the mythical Hautacam climb (13.33km, 7.95%). The record holder is Bjarne Riis. In the 1996 Tour Riis’ set an unbeatable time of 34:41 minutes, doing 6.88 w/kg, which, in our view, is the best climbing performance of all time. Tomorrow Vingegaard will be defending against Pogacar, who has not been able to drop the Dane on climbs this Tour and will need to take back significant time before the final time trial. Tour de France stage 18 2022 profile by La Flamme Rouge
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