Tour de France round-up: Stage 17 videos + Laurens Ten Dam tells Chris Froome to stay away from Strava

The Tour de France hit the Alps yesterday with a dramatic Stage 17 that saw BMC Racing’s Tejay van Garderen withdraw through illness, Alberto Contador of Tinkoff-Saxo lose time after crashing and Giant-Alpecin’s Simon Geschke win from the break. We’ve a couple of videos from the day here, but first, a warning to Chris Froome to stay away from Strava …

– Tour de France Stage 17: Geschke wins, Contador crashes, van Garderen abandons

LottoNL-Jumbo’s Laurens ten Dam is one of the best known and most popular pro cyclists on Strava, and is blogging for it during this year’s race.

In his latest entry, which you can read here, the former Rabobank rider said he started using the ride-sharing app “so people can see how hard I work.”

He adds that he is “really sad to see the reaction to Chris Froome’s performance and all that’s happened to him” – although he tried to head off suggestions that the Team Sky man should also post his rides to Strava.

Do not. I am proud of my KOM's https://t.co/PIr4aj6aRd

— laurenstendam (@laurenstendam) July 21, 2015

Here’s Velon’s latest video, covering yesterday’s stage.

Some of that footage is spliced into Orica-GreenEdge’s latest backstage pass video, and it’s one with a twist – the entire film was shot with GoPro cameras including sequences on the team bus or in team cars.