Ben Healy remains inside the top ten of the general classification at the Tour de France as Italian Jonathan Milan claimed his second victory in this year's competition when he won a crash-disrupted sprint in the 17th stage on Wednesday.
Milan prevailed in a 10-man sprint after the peloton was held up behind a massive crash with just one kilometre to go as riders went down on slippery roads in a rainy finish in southeastern France.
Eritrean Biniam Girmay was attended to by race doctors.
Tadej Pogacar crossed the finish line safely to retain the overall leader's yellow jersey.
Irish rider Healy (EF Education - EasyPost) is ninth overall, 17:52 down on Pogacar after finishing 37th on the stage.
Healy is also 11th, seventh and fourth in the points, mountain and youth classifications respectively.
His performance on Wednesday follows yesterday's stage when he narrowly missed out on a second stage win of this year's Tour.
Frenchmen Quentin Pacher and Mathieu Burgaudeau as well as Jonas Abrahamsen of Norway and Italian Vincenzo Albanese broke away early but stood little chance against the collective power of the sprinters' teams.
With the peloton breathing down their necks, Abrahamsen went solo with 11km remaining, only to be reined in 4.3km from the line.
Milan was the strongest in the reduced sprint, edging out Jordi Meeus of Belgium and Denmark's Tobias Lund Andresen, who were second and third respectively.
Thursday's 18th stage is a brutal mountain trek between Vif and the Col de la Loze, one of the most feared ascents in the Tour de France.
Additional reporting: Reuters
