"If there’s a chance I’ll try again" - Simon Yates doesn't let second place in stage 17 get under his skin

Having fallen through the GC rankings during the first two weeks, Simon Yates was forced to change his plans for the Tour de France to hunting stages. Once again. The winner of ten grand tour stages had hoped to add another one on Wednesday, however Richard Carapaz turned to be outside Yates' reach.

"Another second place stage finish for me. I did my best, but I was running out of legs in the end. Chapeau to Richie, he did a great ride, but that’s all I could do today in the final," Yates admits in a press release.

"I followed Romain Bardet at the bottom, I don’t know if he was trying to launch someone else and then I saw I had a gap, so I decided to go full gas. I saw I had the gap and I preferred to be alone rather than someone catch me, so I tried to keep Richie and Stevie Williams away and maybe I paid for that a little bit in the end, but I didn’t really want them to catch me."

With two more big moutain days awaiting on stages 19 and 20, Yates would definitely like to give it another go for a stage win. "I don’t know what the GC guys want to do in the next mountain stages, but if there’s a chance I’ll try again."