Some stories are turned right on their head in the final few lines - Atonement by Ewan McGregor being a classic example.
And so it was with stage 17 in the Tour de France, when Lidl Trek's Mads Pedersen's grip on the green jersey, which looked like it was going to be utterly unbreakable for most of the day, was dramatically loosened by an extraordinary fight back from Jasper Philipsen, who secured his first victory of the 2026 Tour, helped by a team effort from the Alpecin-Premier Tech squad.
