The 2023 Tour de France enters the next stage on Tuesday with a 22.4km time trial from Passy to Combrue on stage 16, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma) at the back of the start list with Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates) Chase.

The two have been locking horns for two weeks and show little sign of the effects of accumulated fatigue from the intense close racing.

With only 10 seconds separating them in the GC standings, the riders will be looking to close the time gap by as little as one millisecond. If the Tour de France continues as is, the time trial time, which decides the winner, will be reduced to 1/100th of a second if the two riders are on time in Paris.

The stage, which will be started by the Danish riders at 1:05 p.m. (CET), will be a tense day that will kick off an intense final week. Michal Morkov (Soudal-Quick Step) will be the first lantern rouge down the ramp. [He won the Criterium du Dauphiné hill time trial in June and will be the benchmark for Pogachar.

Another rider to watch is Nielson Powles (EF Education - Easy Post). He is tied with Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) for the mountain prize and will be looking to score points by setting the fastest time on the Côte de Domancy, a Category 2 climb between 16.1km and 18.9km.

The top riders in the overall Tour de France standings will appear much later in the afternoon, with 10th-placed Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) heading to the start ramp at 4:42 PM.

Organizers expect a winning time of 36 minutes.