Rafal Majka wins Tour's 17th stage          Giovanni Visconti
got the action going on the last climb with a solo breakaway
with about nine kilometers (5½ miles) left, but could not hold
off Majka. Visconti, who also is Sicilian, was second, 29
seconds back, and Nibali was third, 46 seconds behind.   Majka
said he felt "comfort" in the last five kilometers in part
because he'd been saving up energy a day earlier by riding
easier. He finished in a bunch 24½ minutes behind Australian
teammate Michael Rogers, who won Stage 16.    Few know the scars
of cycling's doping past more than Majka's own manager at the
Tinkoff-Saxo Bank team, Bjarne Riis. Once a national hero in
Denmark after winning the 1996 Tour, he admitted to using blood-
booster EPO more than a decade later -- and was vilified for it.
He laid low for a while, but then returned to the pro cycling
world.   The echoes of doping resonated Wednesday on the grassy
Pyrenean mountainside: The last times that Saint-Lary-Soulan
hosted Tour stage finishes were in