 Near the summit of the last climb, Hampsten and a few others formed an escape group that was eventually caught in the final kilometers.The group raced into Innsbruck, where Franco Vona made a last minute attack that won him the stage.Bernard – who was in sixth place overall at the start of the seventeenth stage – crashed in a tunnel but managed to finish the stage; however, the following day he did not start the leg and withdrew from the race.