Ben Healy stays in general classification top ten as Jonathan Milan wins 17th stage of Tour de France
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 n arrowly 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.
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