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Étape 18 2024

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Étape 18 - Jeudi 18 Juillet 2024

Gap - barcelonnette.

Distance : 179 Km - Type : Accidentée

Détails de l' étape

(sous réserve de validation par l'autorité préfectorale)

• Départ : GAP
• LE DÉVOLUY - Col du Festre - 1441 m
• LE DÉVOLUY - Saint-Disdier
• LE DÉVOLUY - Défilé de la Souloise
• PELLAFOL - Barrage du Sautet
• AUBESSAGNE - Chauffayer
• AUBESSAGNE - Les Costes
• SAINT-BONNET-EN-CHAMPSAUR
• FOREST-SAINT-JULIEN
• Col de Manse - 1268 m
• LA ROCHETTE
• LA BÂTIE-NEUVE
• SAINT-APOLLINAIRE - Côte de Saint-Apollinaire
• SAVINES-LE-LAC - Pont de Savines - Lac de Serre-Ponçon
• LE SAUZE-DU-LAC - Côte des Demoiselles Coiffées
• LE SAUZE-DU-LAC
• LE LAUZET-UBAYE
• MÉOLANS-REVEL
• LES THUILES
• Arrivée : BARCELONNETTE - Place Aimé Gassier

- Gap (Hautes-Alpes) : Ville-étape pour la 27ème fois - Barcelonnette (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) : Ville-étape pour la 2ème fois après 1974

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Présentation vidéo de l'étape

Horaires de passage caravane & coureurs

Classement final étape 18

Résumé vidéo de l'étape

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Tour de france stage 18: a big opportunity for the break, tough transition stage will see major battle for stage honors, with punchy climbs boosting chances of explosive riders..

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Stage 18 — Thursday, July 18 Gap to Barcelonnette Distance: 178.8km (111 miles) Profile: Medium mountain stage

Stage 18: Tough transition stage will see major battle for stage honors

With just two summit finishes plus a time trial ahead, stage 18 will likely be the final opportunity to take a stage for many of the riders in the peloton.

Punchy competitors will relish the thoughts of the five categorized ascents on offer, particularly as the severity is not necessarily significant enough to pitch the odds definitively in the favor of the specialist climbers. Meanwhile the sprinters who have some uphill ability will keep fingers crossed that things remain relatively close and they can dispute the win.

The 178.8km stage from Gap to Barcelonnette features an elevation gain of 3,000 meters, but begins with a 16.5km mostly downhill section. The first climb is the longest of the stage, with the Col du Festre totaling 13.9km.

It averages some 6.3 percent, similar to the pitch of the Côte de Corps (2.1km at 7.2 percent). That in turn is followed by the Col de Manse, the Côte de Saint-Apollinaire and the Côte de Demoiselles Coiffées, which range between 3.6km and 7 km in length.

The final climb is followed by 40km of rolling roads, with a very gradual uphill pitch flattening out over the last 10km.

The view of Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme: “The altimeter drops temporarily, although the sprinters will still have to go right to their limits in order to claim the final bouquet within their grasp.

“That’s down to the fact that once the peloton has admired Lake Serre-Ponçon, the day’s attackers will have a few hills to exploit as they seek to maintain their lead. A strong puncheur might be able to go clear on the Côte de Saint-Apollinaire, and they’ll even more opportunity to do so on the Côte des Demoiselles Coiffées.”

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Tour de France 2023 Stage 18: How to watch on Thursday, TV and live stream details, start time, route map

Updated 20/07/2023 at 10:26 GMT

And breathe. After a wild two days in the Alps, the sprinters come to the fore again on Stage 18 at the Tour de France. Jonas Vingegaard need only stay upright on the remaining four stages and he will surely win a second yellow jersey, with the Dane holding a 7'35 lead over Tadej Pogacar in the general classification. So how can you watch the action unfold on Thursday? Here's all you need to know.

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Tour de France: Vingegaard rides clear to win stage 18 and close on title – as it happened

The Danish rider successfully cracked Tadej Pogacar on the Hautacam following a gesture of great sportsmanship

• 21 Jul 2022 Jonas Vingegaard wins the 18th stage on the Hautacam!
• 21 Jul 2022 Pogacar has cracked!
• 21 Jul 2022 Van Aert attacks!
• 21 Jul 2022 Here comes the Hautacam
• 21 Jul 2022 Pogacar crashes on the descent!
• 21 Jul 2022 Thomas and Pogacar both attack
• 21 Jul 2022 Pogacar goes off at the front!
• 21 Jul 2022 Ciccone takes the mountain points on Col d'Aubisque
• 21 Jul 2022 Van Aert wins the intermediate sprint!
• 21 Jul 2022 A crash at the back of the field!
• 21 Jul 2022 And away we go!
• 21 Jul 2022 Chris Froome out of Le Tour with Covid
• 21 Jul 2022 Preamble

Here’s Jeremy Whittle’s report from the Hautacam

Stage 18 result

• 1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 3hrs 59mins 50secs
• 2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +1:04
• 3. Wout van Aert (Bel/Jumbo-Visma) +2:10
• 4. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +2:54
• 5. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +2:58
• 6. Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz/Astana-Qazaqstan Team) +3:09
• 7. Daniel Martinez (Col/INEOS Grenadiers) same time
• 8. Sepp Kuss (US/Jumbo-Visma) +3:27
• 9. Aleksandr Vlasov (BORA-hansgrohe) +4:04
• 10. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +4:09

GC after stage 18

• 1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 71hrs 53mins 34secs
• 2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +3:26
• 3. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +8:00
• 4. David Gaudu (FRA/Groupama-FDJ) +11:05
• 5. Nairo Quintana (Col/Team Arkea-Samsic) +13:25
• 6. Louis Meintjes (RSA/Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux) +13:43
• 7. Aleksandr Vlasov (BORA - hansgrohe) +14:10
• 8. Romain Bardet (Fra/Team DSM) +16:11
• 9. Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz/Astana-Qazaqstan Team) +20:09
• 10. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +20:17

GC after stage 18 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/9aRBXYFCHK — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 21, 2022

Jonas Vingegaard speaks.

It’s incredible. This morning, I said to my girlfriend and my daughter that I wanted to win for them and I did. This one is for my two girls back home. I was just happy that it finally ended. I was just happy it finally ended. It was incredibly hard. I’m also really happy I won the stage. Now there’s still two more days to come before we are in Paris so we need to keep focus and we’ll take it day by day again. I am so really happy they I won the stage, now there is more days to come. I think [Pogacar] missed the corner and then he went down into the gravel and tried to steer it out and the bike disappeared under him. Then I waited for him. I have to thank all my teammates, they’re incredible. You see Wout van Aert dropping Tadej Pogacar in the end, Sepp Kuss was incredible, everyone was incredible, Tiejs, Christophe, Nathan, they were all incredible. Thanks so much to my teammates, I could never done this without them.

This is the first time in Tour de France history that three different riders have won a stage while wearing the Yellow Jersey 🟡 Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 🟡 Tadej Pogacar 🇸🇮 🟡 Wout van Aert 🇧🇪 #TDF2022 — Cillian Kelly (@irishpeloton) July 21, 2022

Just like his compatriot , Bjarne Riis, in 1996, Jonas Vingegaard wins on the Hautacam, cracking a champion that had previously seemed impregnable. And that moment on the descent of the Col de Spandelles, when Pogacar came down, and Vingegaard waited for him, was a historic moment. Not least because Vingegaard had seemed to lose his chain before and Pogacar had attacked. As it turned out, Vingegaard was the better and stronger man, and Pogacar refused to attack more on the descent, telling his team car so.

Racers. Rivals. Respect. Pogacar and Vingegaard have both had incidents on the descent of Col de Spandelles but neither will take advantage of the other. #TDF2022 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/KQzHDCC7nQ — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 21, 2022

These two. Privilege to watch. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/8uzx3SSjfu — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 21, 2022

...Gaudu comes just behind Thomas , whose third place looks assured, if nothing goes too awry on Saturday’s time trial. Quite some ride from Thomas to finish fourth on that stage.

Pogacar comes in, his shirt open, blowing in the mountain air , he battles on bravely, his head sinking as he crossed the line. He got knocked down, and got up again, but he couldn’t overturn such a strong and inspired rival. Behind him, Van Aert comes in, having dominated the stage from start to finish and set up his teammate to win the stage, and probably Le Tour.

👏 To have deserved winner, you've got to have great competition. 🇸🇮 @TamauPogi is 2nd on the stage at 1'03"! 👏 Pour avoir un beau vainqueur, il faut un beau deuxième ! 🇸🇮 @TamauPogi prend la 2e place de l'étape à 1'03" ! #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/U9sgu76DsT — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 21, 2022

Jonas Vingegaard wins the 18th stage on the Hautacam!

The Dane is surely - surely - destined to win the Tour now. He does so having cracked Pogacar, something that until this year’s Tour was considered impossible. And today, perhaps more importantly, he did so having shown such sportsmanship when Pogacar crashed on that descent. What a moment, what a win. A brilliant ride from Vingegaard.

1km to go: Gaudu tries to drop Martinez and Thomas but ends up dragging them to the Sepp Kuss group, as Vingegaard looks back to see how far he has left Pogacar down the road. The flamme rouge arrives, and the agony will soon be converted to elation.

1.5km to go: Gaudu gets up to Thomas, and needs to take three minutes off him to claim third in GC. Next year, Gaudu may be France’s great hope. This time, it’s dazzling, it’s dynamic, it’s Denmark, as the gap between Pogacar and Vingegaard opens up to 40 seconds.

2.5km to go: Geraint Thomas needs a bike change, though has Martinez, his Ineos teammate, for company at least as Gaudu closes within seconds of him. That’s for the minor places since Vingegaard has smashed the rest of them, with 35 seconds on Pogacar, the rest almost in reverse as they climb the Hautacam.

3.5km to go: Pogacar and Van Aert join up, wordless between them, the gap to Vingegaard at 20 seconds, though it may as well be an hour. Pogacar has no way back. There will be no third successive Tour, barring an accident (or Covid).

Pogacar has cracked!

The green jersey of Van Aert leads the yellow of Vingegaard, ahead of the white jersey of Pogacar. Thomas is still a minute down, and Gaudu is on his tail. But here’s the moment the yellow jersey is decided, and Van Aert’s pacemaking leads to Pogacar being unable to live with the Jumbo-Visma pair. He drops off the back, and is immediately distanced. Vingegaard and Van Aert have the stage and the Tour in their grasp.

5km to go: Geraint Thomas starting to lose nearly a minute on the two leaders, while David Gaudu is going to get fourth from Nairo Quintana if it stays this way. Looking back down the road from the green jersey, the yellow jersey is visible, and Van Aert drops back take over from Kuss as pacemaker. Vingegaard will take polka if he finishes first or second at the summit. Poor Simon Geschke back in the grupetto is set to lose his prized possession.

6km to go: Van Aert seems to slow up, Martinez clinging on behind him, the gap at 36 seconds, with Kuss finally running out of gas. The longer this group stays together, the less chance Pogacar has to attack. But the plan seems to be for Vingegaard to attack. He has the manpower around him to engineer that but Jumbo-Visma may be setting up Van Aert for the stage win, too. They have plenty of cards to play.

7km to go: Thomas is dropping off Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar, as that trio speeds uop the Hautacam, passing a stricken Thibaut Pinot. The French are not going to end their stage-win drought here.

8km to go: Van Aert flips his elbow, and asks Martinez to do his turn. The Colombian acquiesces. Van Aert wants polka dot as well as the green jersey he can already call his own.

🏔 Here are the 6 men who can claim the polka dots👇 At the front 🇫🇷 @ThibautPinot and🇧🇪 @WoutvanAert are the best placed. #TDF2022 ⚪️🔴 https://t.co/Rxrkr5zF86 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 21, 2022

Van Aert attacks!

9km to go: The pace Kuss is riding along may soon see the GC group catch up the trio at the front. It’s running Pogacar into the red zone, draining his ability to chase down Vingegaard, to mount another of those wildcat attacks. Van Aert though decides to go off the front, and with that, Pinot’s chance looks to have gone, and it’s only Martinez who can stay with him.

10km to go: Pinot asks his fellow travellers up the top to race alongside him, to take a turn. He drenches himself in water, but Van Aert and Martinez sit grim-faced behind him as he tries to ride them away. Is he bluffing? Does he have the legs? Behind him down the mountain, Sepp Kuss is pacing Vingegaard along and it’s Pogacar’s turn to hold the wheel. The gap is closing, Pinot’s pace is far slower than that of Kuss. Louis Meintjes will not be troubling Geraint Thomas for the podium; he’s toiling back down the hill.

12km to go: Meintjes goes off the back, but only to collect a bottle ahead of the climb. Thomas will be watching him like a hawk. Benoot and Kuss sit up the front of that group, Jumbo-Visma setting the pace. Up at the top, Pinot has a turn off the front, testing the legs of Martinez and Van Aert. Two races at one here, though Benoot’s day is done.

Here comes the Hautacam

Dani Martinez, Thibaut Pinot and Wout van Aert reach the bottom of the hill, and there is a stage win, a polka jersey and perhaps, in Van Aert’s case, the chance to land a GC win for Vingegaard. Louis Meintjes, chasing down Geraint Thomas’s third place, has joined the group of GC contenders.

15km to go: Up ahead, Van Aert, with two minutes on the chasing GC contenders, has a chance of the polka-dot jersey if he wins the stage. So too does Thibaut Pinot, to rescue something from a disappointing Tour. Vingegaard and Pogacar are joined soon enough by Kuss, Benoot and Thomas, who continues to hang on limpet-like to his place on the podium.

17km to go: All credit goes to Vingegaard and Pogacar seems to recognise that, even if his team aren’t so empathetic. They reach the bottom of the hill, and soon enough the Hautacam will beckon. Their slow pace down the descent has pulled backed in the likes of Kuss and Tiesj Benoot, in Jumbo jerseys, to push Vingegaard along.

22km to go: Pogacar is on his radio, possibly requesting a new bike, his steed looks to have failed him. And the team care comes alongside him, offering a bottle after a short discussion. He seems to be angry with his team, as if they are asking him to attack someone he has just enjoyed a moment of brotherhood with. Ironically enough, Eurosport have turned to Alberto Contador for expert summarising. He describes it as a “historic moment”, but then says falling off is part of the race and the risk.

Pogacar crashes on the descent!

28km to go: Oh dear, that was almost very nasty, as Vingegaard almost comes a cropper, but then Pogacar actually comes off, and there will be road rash. Pogacar gets back on, gingerly, though rides like a demon to get back on, and Vingegaard sits up for his rival, and when they meet, there is a touch of hands

This was no Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador scenario. There is clear respect between the riders and they ease off in their chase down the hill, both recognising the danger involved. What a moment of sportsmanship.

33km to go: Pogacar’s pace means Tiesj Benoot, who had gone up the road to assist his leader, can’t keep up, and gets cracked. Meintjes, who had designs on a podium finish, with Thomas behind him on the road, also fails to live with the speed. Sepp Kuss can also offer little more in the way of assistance.

Van Aert, Dani Martinez and Thibaut Pinot are the three riders who go over top of the climb, Van Aert taking the mountain points and speeding down the Col de Spandelles. Through a hairpin bend covered by trees, Pogacar, with Vingegaard on his tail, go over the brow and they can begin their descent. The Hautacam is where it will be decided.

Thomas and Pogacar both attack

35km to go: Pogacar, once Kuss joins them, is hosed down by a rider he passes by, and then once Thomas joins the group, speeds on, and tries his best to shed Kuss, who then catches up again. The aim seems to be the speed up and slow down to shed Vingegaard and Kuss, in a game of cat and mouse. Then he slows down, allows Kuss and Thomas to rejoin him. Then off goes Thomas, up the hill, and stretching the field. Vingegaard looks highly stressed by all this happening around him. But can he be cracked? Pogacar goes off, and speeds past Thomas, with Vingegaard on the limit as he chases. Ciccone, the king of the mountains that never was, gets eaten up. The pace is relentless, deadly for those around them.

Pogacar goes off at the front!

38km to go: Van Aert has clearly been on the radio, and is doing his best to get over the top so that he can be there to aid Vingegaard later on. The result of that is that Ciccone has cracked, and that means Geschke, at the back of the field now and suffering, may yet find himself in polka at the end of the day. Ciccone is looking for Mollema, but no avail, the best-laid plans have been skewered by Van Aert. With McNulty winding it up in the GC group, the likes of Thomas and Yates are clinging on for dear life.

McNulty lifts the pace, but then sits back as his team leader goes away. Vingegaard reads the move, and sits off Pogacar, as the rest of the field is blown away as the dynamic duo power on. Pogacar is trying to isolate Vingegaard from his teammates. A glance back tells him Sepp Kuss can catch him up, and that he has Vingegaard out of the saddle, but that he is all on his own up this climb and then the Hautacam.

40km to go: It’s a 10km to go, a category one, and Ciccone and Mollema continue together, and Ciccone needs to finish fourth at the summit to overtake Geschke to take the mountains jersey. That looks more than likely. Back in the overall GC race, this is where the pack is likely to be split. Brandon McNulty takes up the pace, and attempts to do what he did yesterday, to shred the field. An early victim is Tom Pidcock, who soon spins off the back, unable to hold any wheels. McNulty blasts along, and plenty of bottles are being shed, with Jumbo-Visma’s people offering up bottles to their own men, but Geraint Thomas gets refused when asking for one. Gamesmanship. Vlasov’s dreams of climbing the GC are crushed by the pace of McNulty.

45km to go: The Col de Spandelles approaches, and perhaps this is the moment for Pogacar.

⛰ And now : the Col de Spandelles ⛰ Et maintenant : le Col de Spandelles #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/kGkquvNV9X — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 21, 2022

50km to go: The peloton is led over the Col du Soulor by Nathan Van Hooydonck of the Jumbotron, with Pogacar and Vingegaard at close quarters. Ciccone is having a dig off the front of the leading pack while Nairo Quintana, a daredevil descender, is leading an attack on the descent. Pogacar goes with him, Vingegaard asked to follow.

55km to go: Down they fly to another short climb. The view of the mountains at the top of the Col D’Aubisque was truly awesome but there is no time to rest, this is a nasty, exacting test of mettle. This is the Col du Soulor, offering very little respite. Louis Meintjes continues to attempt to bridge the gap to the leading pack, but is getting no help from the riders around him. Bauke Mollema, the veteran, leads Ciccone over the top, lending vital help to his Trek-Segafredo teammate. And the descent can resume.

Ciccone takes the mountain points on Col d'Aubisque

66km to go: Louis Meintjes, who came second on Alpe D’Huez, chases the leading group led by Van Aert, as the climb twists itself round and round the hairpin bends, and slowly. Meintjes is about a minute behind, and on GC virtuel, he has ridden himself up to fourth. Long way to go yet today. Adam Yates, of Team Ineos, has been suffering today but the slow pace of the peloton has allowed him back on.

The group who will begin their descent together: Giulio Ciccone, Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) Tiesj Benoot, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Bob Jungels (Ag2r-Citröen), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Enric Mas, Carlos Verona, Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Valentin Madouas, Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost).

Ciccone is unchallenged as he goes over the summit first, and is now within three points of Geschke, who is sweating blood back down the hill. Ciccone will fancy picking up some more on the next hill.

The other news is that the two motorbikes that caused the accident including Jack Bauer have both been kicked off Le Tour.

70km to go: Luis Leon Sanchez, a wily old fox, sets off from the front of the peloton, and eats the ground between him and Simon Geschke, who can’t stay with him and seems highly unlikely to be in polka tomorrow. A long long afternoon awaits, and there’s still around 5km of the Col d’Aubisque to go. The yellow jersey group is getting smaller, down to barer bones. Vingegaard is out of his saddle, no pressure as yet.

On this famous hill, from this article on the Basque Country.

Col d’Aubisque (1,700m) is next up, with pine and birch forests, hairpin bends and spectacular views. We stop to attempt to cycle the pass (I give up part way up!). Nerves of steel are needed for the road cut into near-vertical cliffs around Col du Soulor (1,474m). It’s narrow, with a couple of tunnels, so you’ll need to drive it in the afternoon if your vehicle is over three tonnes (east to west in the morning). The scenery is sublime: the valley floor seems miles below – with nothing but a few concrete blocks between you – while impossible peaks loom above. This beautiful section of road is another favourite of diehard cyclists.

This climb has only ever been a summit finish three times, with the winners Bernard Labourdette in 1971, Stephen Roche in 1985 and Michael Rasmussen in 2007.

The latter was kicked out of the race while in yellow, only the second time that’s happened.

75km to go: Tom Pidcock, the hero of Alpe D’Huez, is up riding with Geschke, and has two teammates off him, only for Geschke to drop off the back. His polka dot jersey has been endangered by the Cofidis team’s failed efforts to get him up there, and his own lack of form. Giulio Ciccone, the Trek-Segafredo rider at the front, could close to within three points of Geschke if he takes the points at the top. All to play for. Jumbo-Visma have Tiesj Benoot up the front with Van Aert, to act as a launchpad if Vingegaard needs them later on. At the back of the field, Quick-Step are doing their best to save Fabio Jakobsen missing the time limit. He made it by just 15 seconds yesterday.

Today's ascent up Hautacam is the last climbing challenge of @LeTour for the men. Riders will need to conquer the Col d'Aubisque and the Col de Spandelles before the final climb, which covers 13.41 km at an average incline of 7.74%. Follow along at: https://t.co/09B9vnCM82 pic.twitter.com/vGD2vSeJm9 — Strava (@Strava) July 21, 2022

80km to go: The chase is on on that first big climb. Geschke gives chase as that 30-man group soon breaks up, 21 seconds behind, and back in the peloton, the only UAE rider sat with Pogacar is Brandon McNulty, who led his man right to the finish yesterday.

Van Aert wins the intermediate sprint!

84km to go: Some calm? Seems like it for now, with an intermediate sprint and climb soon to come and a sizeable group away in front, though the gap is only around 20 seconds.

The makeup, a movable feast was this: Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma), Dani Martinez and Luke Rowe (Ineos Grenadiers), Stan Dewulf (Ag2R-Citroen), Marco Haller (Bora-Hansgrohe), Mattia Cattaneo (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), Matteo Jorgensen (Movistar), Matej Mohoric 9(Bahrain Victorious), Alberto Dainese (Team DSM), Alexandr Ribsushenko (Astana-Qazaqstan), Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost), Amaury Capiot (Arkea-Samsic), Andreas Kron (Lotto Soudal), Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo), Dylan Groenewegen (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels-KTM), Nils Politt and Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Florian Senechal (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Rigo Uran (EF), Matis Louvel (Arkea), Tony Gallopin (Trek-Segafredo), Edvald Boasson Hagen and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) and Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech)

Van Aert idles them home, nobody looking like they fancy challenging him. The green jersey is his, barring accident/Covid. The first climb approaches, and those 30 or so men will never be mentioned in the same breath again.

A crash at the back of the field!

95km to go: Van Aert joins up to make it a 30-man group up away at the front. A dog barks loudly as a bottle is lobbed. And at the back of the field, there’s a prang, A press motorbike took a tight street too keenly and Jack Bauer ended up going into the back of the UAE team car. That was ugly and Bauer was furious as he splatted off the back of that team car. Up ahead, Nils Eekhoff, the Team DSM rider, has a cut elbow. That was entirely the fault of the motorbike. Bauer takes some wipes to his elbow, it looks nasty.

Ridiculous, avoidable crash. Thankfully Jack Bauer and Nils Eekhoff are ok. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/N8DZMzrHCZ — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 21, 2022

100km to go: It remains eventful, and there’s another break formed, only for it to splinter. Luke Rowe and Danny Martinez of Team Ineos are involved. There are signals made to work harder from within the group. Simon Geschke hasn’t managed to bridge the gap, it seems, as the gap goes up to just over 20 seconds.

110km to go: Mikkel Berg, who rode a big ride for Pogacar, is sat off the back of the peloton and looks to be suffering for yesterday’s efforts. Simon Geschke, the leader of the mountains points, is chasing down the breakaway, in an attempt to close off any other contenders for the polka pots on the first climb, the Col d’Aubisque. Eventually, the chase closes down the break and the pack is soon enough back together. Van Aert resumes the role of stalking horse up at the front. The pace is high, no rest ahead of the humps to come. Though as soon he rests, other attempt to make their escape.

Three weeks of daily Classics is quite something isn't it @JohnBrewin_ ? We really should be rolling through unknown villages and meadows now while David Duffield talks about last night's dinner and Christi Anderson updates us on Tyler Hamilton's dog's flea problem. — Gary Naylor (@garynaylor999) July 21, 2022

David Duffield’s already featured today in the preamble.

115km to go: That break is made up of as follows: Stan Dewulf (Ag2R-Citroen), Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM), Stefan Bisseger (EF Education-EasyPost), Florian Vermeersch (Lotto Soudal) and Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco). The gap is teetering around 30 seconds.

120km to go: Van Aert is back in the pack and it’s left to others to chase the break. Christophe Laporte is on the front, replicating the actions of Van Aert, his Jumbo teammate. Michael Matthews is in this leading quintet, with Aleksandr Anatolyevich Vlasov, in eighth on GC, trying to join up. Van Aert then leads an expeditionary force from the peloton in an attempt to get within the break.

130km to go: No energy being saved for the climbs ahead, as Nils Pollit and Dylan Teuns chased after Van Aert as he makes a descent down the first hill of the day, they have nine seconds to make up on him, the peloton around 20 seconds behind but then the gap begins to go down, as a UAE-led peloton zip after him. Vingegaard and Pogacar are almost joined at the hip in the depths of the peloton, both covered up ahead of the battle to come up the road. Pollit and Teuns are pulled back in. Even Van Aert is struggling to live with the pace, the gap dwindling to five seconds. Stan Dewulf of AG2R catches him and overtakes him. Could this be the formation of a breakaway group?

140km to go: A reminder of what the stage looks like. Lumpy, in short and up the front, Van Aert drops Powless and flies away from the field. The man is relentless.

🚲 Stage 18 / Étape 18 🚲 🚩 Lourdes 🏁 Hautacam 📏 143,2 km ⏰ 13:30 CEST > 17:25 CEST ⛰ 1x 1⃣c, 2x HC 💚 km 58,5 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/ejDsjghEWu — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 21, 2022

And away we go!

The peloton flies along to Kilometre Zero and off goes Wout van Aert goes off up ahead, the race is on immediately. Looks like the Jumbo-Visma plan is for him to go up ahead, take the intermediate sprint and then work with Vingegaard later on in the stage. Nelson Powless, a regular in the breakaways, joins him up there. A powerful duo to pull away so early.

🇬🇧 @chrisfroome , 🇪🇸 @ImanolErviti and 🇮🇹 @CarusoDamiano have not started today. 🇬🇧 @chrisfroome , 🇪🇸 @ImanolErviti et 🇮🇹 @CarusoDamiano sont non partants. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/bexKOGhQBA — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 21, 2022

Two further Covid withdrawals here.

🏥 Unfortunately, @CarusoDamiano will not start stage 18 of @LeTour following a positive Covid-19 test after showing mild symptoms. All other riders and staff returned negative tests. Get well soon Damiano! #RideAsOne #TDF2022 📸 @therussellellis pic.twitter.com/J7kuo2KpPT — Team Bahrain Victorious (@BHRVictorious) July 21, 2022

Este jueves no tendremos en la 18ª etapa del #TDF2022 a @ImanolErviti , tras haber dado positivo por covid. Nuestro capi se encuentra en buen estado de salud. ¡Nos vemos pronto! 💙🙏 Imanol Erviti has returned a positive covid test, will not start @LeTour s18. Get well soon mate! pic.twitter.com/3yYWhy4tZg — Movistar Team (@Movistar_Team) July 21, 2022

Chris Froome out of Le Tour with Covid

The four-time winner has tested positive, and will take no further part for the Israel–Premier Tech team, for whom he rode to third on Alpe D’Huez. Will we see him again on Le Tour? The plan is for him to go for the Vuelta next month.

Unfortunately I won’t be taking the start today due to covid-19 😔 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/RJziNXG52d — Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) July 21, 2022

More retro action from 2000 , watch Lance Armstrong and Marco Pantani do battle in a rather rainier Hautacam, including comms from Phil Liggett and the much missed Paul Sherwen.

All over for “G” in terms of winning a second Tour but a podium finish is still on, he was cracked yesterday by Pogacar’s UAE teammates.

Thomas said: “I didn’t really expect that, especially from Berg. He put in a hell of a shift for the rider he is. It’s cracking me actually, that he was hurting me so much on a climb. But fair play: they really took it on.” Asked if Berg’s and particularly McNulty’s performance, which saw the American leading Pogacar into the final 200m, were what he had have expected, Thomas said: “Not at all, no. Fair play, both of them, and whatever they had for breakfast, because they were going.”

Tadej Pogacar’s teammate, Mikkel Berg , on the final chance to crack Vingegaard.

Everything is possible. Tadej, he had one bad day and lost the yellow jersey, so we need to put the pressure on and see if Jonas has a bad day. It’s one of the hardest stages in this year’s Tour. Tadej has good legs, we all feel confident and good that we can try to do something.

A third and final day in the Pyrenees, and a last chance for Tadej Pogacar to land a blow ahead of Saturday’s time trial. The stage win went his way on Wednesday but Jonas Vingegaard was not for the cracking as the two leaders made their way together to Peyragudes’ finish line.

A path well known but not necessarily well travelled on Le Tour, the Hautacam has serious history. The last winner on its peak was Vincenzo Nibali, who rode in the yellow jersey into Paris, while its most famous day was in 1996 when Miguel Indurain, the winner of five consecutive Tours, cracked as Bjarne Riis appeared to be riding a hematocrit-powered motorbike up ahead of Big Mig. And talking of suspicious wins, it was in 2000 that Lance Armstrong cracked Jan Ullrich, taking four minutes from the big, friendly giant.

Only one Frenchman has won on Hautacam, in 1994 when Luc Leblanc, that year’s world road race champion, crested the summit with Indurain just rwo seconds back and Marco Pantani 18 seconds back, the rest of the field splintered into smithereens. It’s a place where the big boys come out to play.

Per William Fotheringham in our pre-race preview:

Another stage that is too short for a break to gain much time before the big names get moving. It’s a brutal course covering the legendary Col d’Aubisque and the unknown Col de Spandelles before the final haul to a bleak plateau. The winner will probably be in the top six overall, and he will be odds on to take the final victory. Think Pogacar, Roglic, Vingegaard or, from the left field, the Australian Ben O’Connor.

NB: Such is this Tour’s attrition that O’Connor and Roglic are long gone from the peloton. Instead, they will be aiming for this year’s Vuelta.

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• Avg. speed winner: 35.825 km/h
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-Stage 18 from Lourdes to Hautacam is 143.2km long

-After a fast start, van Aert and 20 other riders formed the attack of the day

-Pogacar and Vingegaard got away on the Col de Spandelles but then Pogacar crashed on the descent

-Van Aert was up front when the attack was caught and dropped Pogacar, allowing Vingegaard to win alone and set-up overall victory

-Friday's stage to Cahors is a day for the sprinters 

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Bonjour and welcome to the Cyclingnews live coverage of stage 18 of the 2022 Tour de France.

As we get up to speed, the riders are signing on in Lourdes, ready for this final mountain stage of the 2022 Tour de France.

It's a huge final day in the Pyrenees and so much could happen on the three big climbs of the stage. 

As always, we'll have full live coverage of all the action.

Sadly two more riders are out of the Tour due to COVID-19. Movistar team announced that their road captain Imanol Erviti tested positive for the virus this morning. 

Damiano Caruso  also headed home after struggling in the Pyrenees, with Bahrain Victorious revealing he was also positive for COVID-19.

Erviti is the first Movistar rider to catch COVID-19 during the 2022 Tour de France. It is only the second time in his long career as a domestique and road captain that he has failed to finish a Grand Tour. He has started 28 Grand Tours and only failed to finish the 2012 Tour de France. 

It is the first time Caruso has abandoned a Grand Tour after completing 15 three-week races.

Ineos is next on stage. They still have a full team of eight riders despite some illness. 

They again wear yellow helmets during the stage as leaders of the team classification.

Groupama-FDJ are on stage next. They will be hoping that David Gaudu can keep fighting for a top-five place overall. 

Nairo Quintana is only 4 seconds ahead of him in fourth and so the two will be locked in their own race on the climb to Hautacam.

This is today's stage. It includes the mighty Aubisque, the Col de Spandelles and then the finish at Hautacam. 

It's the final chance in the mountains for the climbers! Will the Aubisque, col de Spandelles and Hautacam provide the perfect playing ground? ⚔️L’Aubisque, le Col de Spandelles et Hautacam, un terrain parfait pour une dernière bataille au sommet ? ⚔️#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/FZ73P3mGBe July 21, 2022

We're 15 minutes from the start of the stage.

Jonas Vingegaard is on stage with his Jumbo-Visma teammates. The Dane is eating a ice lolly to try to stay cool.  

It's currently 28C in Lourdes but cooler at the Hautacam finish, which was above the clouds earlier this morning.   

The sign-on podium is in the centre of Lourdes and several riders will be looking for a miracle today.

They include Tadej Pogacar, who is on stage now.

It's going to be tough but i'm going to give my all," Pogacar says when it is pointed out today is his last chance to pull back time on Vingegaard. 

After losing Rafa Majka before Thursday's stage, Pogacar has just three teammates: 

Marc Hirschi, Mikkel Bjerg and Brandon McNulty. 

The riders are starting to line-up for the roll out. 

It's time for the pre-tace fist-pumps.

C'est Parti! 

The riders roll out of Lourdes. 

🌪 The calm before the storm...🌪 Le calme avant la tempête...#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/OUr9zbZX4t July 21, 2022

The riders face a short 3.1km neutralised sector. 

140 riders start the stage. 

Also missing is Chris Froome, who announced he has COVID-19 just before the roll out.

The flag drops the stage starts! 

The road climbs straight away and there are attacks.

Froome published a brief message, expressing his disappointment but saying he plans to ride the Vuelta a Espana.

Unfortunately I won’t be taking the start today due to covid-19 😔 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/RJziNXG52d July 21, 2022

Another fast start and another Wout van Aert attack! 

He was joined by Neilson Powless but is now solo. 

Riders are chasing van Aert to try to form the break of the day.

Van Aert is still 10 seconds ahead of the chasers. Jumbo clearly want him up the road to help Vingegaard later in the mountains.

The intermediate sprint comes after 58km of valley roads and so van Aert can score more points but he has already secured victory.  

Politt and Teuns are chasing, but so is Tiesj Benoot, also of Jumbo-Visma. 

Jumbo seem to want to give it back to UAE. 

Their attacks have put Mikkel Bjerg in difficulty.

💛 Let the battle commence!💛 Que la bataille commence !#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/PVj7K654er July 21, 2022

After a 13km attack, van Aert is caught. 

Who is next to go?

We have more attacks. 

Van Aert goes again! 

Is he attacking to hurt UAE and Bjerg? 

Stan Dewulf of AG2R is up front but is marked by Christophe Laporte and others.  

The speed is super high from the very start. The average speed is over 50km/h. 

The race is fluid and ever changing. 

EF are especially aggressive today and in a small group off the front with Laporte.

Laporte, De Wulf, Leknessund, Vermeersch, Bissegger and Matthews are on the attack. 

Schachmann and Van Poppel are trying to go across but it's a big task.

The gap is only 10 seconds. 

Cofidis are lead the chase to try to keep Geschke in contention for the KOM points on the first big climb. 

He needs to score some points in the hope of keeping the polka-dot jersey all the way to Paris.

Gruppo compatto after 33km fast racing.

Teams and riders know that this is their last chance to win a stage.

Bjerg is still chasing in the team cars. He's suffering but slowly getting back to the peloton. But how much will the chase cost him?  

This tweet and photo from Bora says it all.  

🇫🇷 #TDF2022all back together, all strung out. it’s crazy fast. pic.twitter.com/OHNcH6sTAy July 21, 2022

The pace is so high the police motorbikes are being caught in the action.

Now we have a new attack of 15 riders.

Geschke is trying to go across again. 

Ciccone is also in the attack and is a rival to Geschke. 

Bettiol is there too, plus Benoot for Jumbo.  

The USA's Matteo Jorgenson is up front too. 

Geschke did not make it across and there are more attacks. 

A group is closing down the attack. 

The peloton seems to be easing up.

There are 27 rider in the front group. 

They lead by 35 seconds but Geschke and van Aert are still trying to inspire the peloton to chase.

Benoot ups the pace as van Aert drags a small group across to them. 

One day we'll know just how much van Aert was riding for himself and how much for the Jumbo team. 

Van Aert wants to join the group to take the Laruns intermediate sprint in 10km or so.

Perhaps he wants to set a new green jersey points total in Paris.

A squeeze in the road ends with Jack Bauer (BikeExchange - Jayco) crashing into a team car. 

Fortunately he had slowed somewhat but he still hit the UAE car.  

Team DSM ride Nils Eekhoff also crashed just ahead, sparking the slam on.  

Bauer and Eekhoff both need medical treatment from the doctor's car. 

Interestingly, QuickStep are now chasing the attack. 

They want to keep Jakobsen up front as much as possible. If the break goes away, that makes it harder for Jakobsen to finish inside the time limit. 

Interestingly, Vingegaard comes up to ask QuickStep to ask what they're doing. 

He wants his teammates up the road, so wants the gap to out.  

The rider have a stiff tailwind but they've raced at 49.61km/h for the opening hours. 

All on stage 18 of the Tour. Ouch. 

The Laruns sprint is coming and then the riders hit the Col d'Aubisque. 

Van Aert surges to score maximum points at the intermediate sprint. 

That's another 20 points in the bag.    

Will van Aert ease up? 

No. He stays up front as other riders push on. Why give up a free ride? 

van Aert works on the front but the peloton is only 15 seconds back as the Col d'Aubisque starts in earnest. 

The Col d'Aubisque is 16.4km long at 7.1% and so shake out the break and the peloton. 

Indeed the sprinters and rouleurs in the break are dropping back. 

Jumbo have taken control in the peloton, with Nathan Van Hooydonck and Sepp Kuss on the front for Vingegaard.  

The peloton is at 1:00 as the lower slopes of the Col d'Aubisque.

The sperinters are slipping back from the peloton. There will soon be calls of  'gruppetto, grupetto,' a call for unity so that they ride together and all finish inside the time limit.  

On Wednesday, Fabio Jakobsen made the time cut by just 15 seconds. 

 Click below to read out full story. 

Jakobsen makes Tour de France time cut by 15 seconds

This is the Col d'Aubisque. It is Hors Category and oe of the historic climbs of the Tour.

7km to go the summit of the Col d'Aubisque.

Pogacar takes a bidon and pours the cold water over him. Kuss makes sure Pogacar does not open a gap.  

The peloton is 1:50 down on the 22 attackers, with Louis Meintjes in the middle at 1:00 with a teammate. 

Simon Geschke's hopes of winning the polka-dot jersey seem over. He has lost contact with the yellow jersey group. 

He needed to score points on the Col d'Aubisque.

The pace is steady in the peloton and so riders keep jumping up the road. 

😂 The #TDF2022 peloton is blessed.😂 Le peloton du #TDF2022 est béni. 👋 @OutOfCycling pic.twitter.com/M9k6Kx1KYT July 21, 2022

These are the 20 riders up front. 

Giulio Ciccone, Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) Tiesj Benoot, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Bob Jungels (Ag2r-Citröen), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Enric Mas, Carlos Verona, Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Valentin Madouas, Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Andreas Leknessund (Team DSM), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost).

Other riders have been dropped. 

There's a moment of study and control on the higher slopes of the Col d'Aubisque.

Vingegaard has Nathan Van Hooydonck and Sepp Kiss with him, with Pogacar has McNulty and Thomas has Yates.

Jumbo is slowly letting the break go away on the Col d'Aubisque.

Van Aert drags the attackers to the top of the Col d'Aubisque. 

Ciccone jumps away to score 20 KOM points. He now has 61, three ahead of Geschke, who was hoping to defend the polka dot jersey.

Meintjes summits some 50 seconds later, while Neilson Powless is at 1:30. 

The peloton passes the Col d'Aubisque at 3:15.

The road now descends through the trees but the views across the high Pyrenees are spectacular. 

Of course, the riders do not have a lot of energy to enjoy the views.

Meintjes is 1:10 behind the attack as he tries to go across and perhaps gain time in the GC.

He's seventh in the virtual GC but this is a big effort by the South African. 

The riders are on the exposed high roads of the Haute Pyrenee. Spectacular. 

Arkea are on the front of the peloton on the fast descent, they're defending Quintana's 4th place overall. 

This is a twisting 15km descent and Pogacar has joined Arkea up front to up the pace. 

Vingegaard is forced to go after him.

Meintjes and Hamilton have caught up with Mas in the descent of col du Soulor.

There are again races within the race today, as riders battle for places in the top ten as well as the stage and the overall victory.

🤩 No words needed #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/ZmWKWNEVsl July 21, 2022

The end of the descent can only mean one thing. It's time to climb again. 

The riders start the steep and narrow Col de Spandelles. It is little more than a farm track.   

Here we go! 

Big Nut McNulty is back on the front as UAE take control of the peloton.

His pace will surely test everyone. 

Van Aert is still in the break and still riding on the front. He wants to be up there for Vingegaard later on. 

But after such a big effort, will be able to do anything later? 

Geraint Thomas moves across the road and asks 2 Jumbo soigneurs for drinks. Both unsportingly refuse. That's not nice.

McNulty's pacing is eating into the gap on the break and spitting riders out of the back. 

Vlasov is struggling, Pidcock has already been dropped. 

Vingegaard has Kuss and Thomas is there but Bardet and Gaudu seem to be suffering.

These are the riders in the yellow jersey group. 

onas Vingegaard, Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Pogacar, Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates), Geraint Thomas, Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers), Nairo Quintana (Arkéa-Samsic), David Gaudu, Michael Storer (Groupama-FDJ), Romain Bardet (Team DSM) and Alexander Vlasov (Bora-Hansgrohe).

However Yates is also struggling to stay in contact. 

Pogacar ups the pace and blows the group apart. 

Now it's just him and Vingegaard.

They quickly blast up to Meintjes. 

They're only 2:20 down on the attackers, which has also split.

Pogacar eases and so Kuss gets back on.

Behind Thomas chases with Quintana, with Gaudu a few metres behind.

Pogacar and Vingegaard still have 5km to climb.

Up front van Aert is leading the attack with Pinot and Dani Martinez of Ineos.

Thomas gets back on. Quintana too.

But Bam! Pogacar attacks again!

Vingegaard is on him and Kuss is there too.

Attack number 3 from Pogacar!

Vingegaard is on him and Thomas too. 

Now Thomas attacks! 

There are 3km for the GC to climb on the Col de Spandelles.

Thomas leads by 50 metres but Kuss is pacing Vingegaard. 

Pog goes again!

Ufff! Pogacar and Vingegaard blast past Thomas! 

Vingegaard had to suffer to get onto Pogacar's wheel that time. 

Is that a sign he's starting to suffer?

Pogacar's normal pace is not super fast, with Thomas able to peg the gap. 

Up front van Aert is trying to stay away so he can help Vingegaard in some way.

It remains to be seen if van Art can actually do anything to help on the climb to the finish.

Pinot is with van Aert and could try to win the stage. 

There is also the nasty, technical descent. 

It is 18km long to the foot of the Hautacam. 

Van Aert is the first to the top of the Col de Spandelles. 

He can't win the polka-dot jersey, so what was he doing? 

Attack again from Pogacar!!

They are just 1:35 down at the summit. 

Will Pogacar attack on the descent too? 

Thomas is 30 seconds down at the summit.  

Ohhhhh! 

Vingegaard wobbles on the descent. He puts his foot out to stay up! 

Pogacar opens a gap but Vingegaard closes quickly.

Crash Pogacar!!! 

He's up and riding but they're both taking risks. 

Pogacar went wide into the gravel and then lost control of his bike.

Vingegaard waits for him! 

That's incredibly sporting and they shake hands. 

Pogacar didn't crash at speed but has a hole in his shorts and some road rash under his thigh.  

Pogacar calls for his team car. 

Does he need a new bike? 

He talks to his team car but does not change his bike. But he was animated and something is wrong.

The pace of Pogacar and Vingegaard has slowed, so Thomas is only 10 seconds behind now.

This is the Pogacar crash. 

Sportief! Pogacar knalt onderuit in een bocht, Vingegaard wacht #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/9bSOCH59Gk July 21, 2022

Soon after the two shook hands, Pogacar thanking Vingegaard for waiting for him.

The riders are at the foot of Hautacam and Thomas and others join Vingegaard and Pogacar. 

Thomas calls his team car.

The Hautacam is famous for several previous finishes. 

Today's race will only add to the history.  

Up front are van Aert, Pinot and Dani Martinez. 

All three would be incredible stage winner.  

This is Hautacam. That steep, black section explains why it is such a hard climb.

It is 13.6km long at 7.7%. It takes about 40 minutes to climb. 

The Vingegaard group is 2:30 down on van Aert, Pinot and Martinez.

Behind  Gaudu and Quintana are locked in a battle for fourth and fifth.

In the attack, Pinot covers his head and body with cold water. He has been dancing on the pedals and seems keen to attack van Aert and Martinez. 

Kuss is pacing Vingegaard on the last major climb of the Tour. He is escorting him nearer and nearer to victory.

Gaudu attacks Quintana with teammate Madouas and they manage to get away.  

Thomas is still with Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar.

Will Pogacar soon try another attack? They're only 1:00 the Pinot attack now. 

Van Aert must know that his own teammates are chasing him as Kuss sets a fast pace.

He attacks and only Martinez can go with him.  

Pinot seemed to crack mentally there. 

Kuss is again doing an vital team role today. Part of Vingegaard's eventual success is his. 

Behind everyone else is fighting to limit their losses and hold their GC position. 

This is a dramatic day of Grand Tour racing.

Thomas is dropped! 

There is still 7km to climb to the finish. 

Van Aert and Martinez lead Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar by just 30 seconds. 

Pogacar wants to win the stage but Vingegaard perhaps also wants to win in the yellow jersey.

Lutsenko and Verona are with Thomas. They were in the early break and have survived this far.  

Everyone is just trying to ride in and limit any losses. 

Up front Martinez and van Aert after joined by Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar.

Incredibly van Aert is able to pace Vingegaard and Pogacar. 

Thomas is 50 seconds back. 

Gaudu had gained a minute on his GC rivals Quintana.

Pinot is pacing his younger teammate after being in the attack. 

Pogacar is suffering! He's dropped!  

He's already lost 10 seconds!

Van Aert is doing some incredible pacing for Vingegaard here. 

Now Vingegaard goes solo! 

Van Aert moves off and he is totally spent. He gave his all. 

Yet he manages to sit on Pogacar as he chases Vingegaard.

But the young Dane is strong and opening a gap with every pedal stroke. 

Vingegaard leads Pogcar by 35 seconds.

He is going to win the stage in yellow and surely cement his overall success.

The crowds are huge near the summit. 

Stay safe Jonas!

Fortunately he is into the barriered sector.

Pogacar's white jersey is open as he suffers and chases.

But we've seen a very human Pogacar this year. He's lost 40 seconds to Vingegaard now.

Vingegaard has extended his virtual GC lead to 3:00.

This is the moment Pogacar cracked. 

😱 @TamauPogi can't follow @WoutvanAert and Jonas Vingegaard!😱 @TamauPogi ne peut pas suivre le tempo imposé par @WoutvanAert et Jonas Vingegaard !#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/iQRANQaBRc July 21, 2022

Vingegaard is close to winning the stage and so the 2022 Tour.  

Vingegaard reaches the finish at Hautacam and wins the stage solo.  

He's 1:00 ahead of Pogacar. 

Chapeau! 

Jonas Vingegaard blows a kiss and punches the air.

Pogacar finished 1:03 behind.

Wout Van Aert (Jumbo Visma) is named as the winner of the Prix Antargaz de la Combativité.

He also finishes third on the stag at 2:10 and celebrates too. 

Thomas finishes fourth at 2:53 with another brave, gritty ride. 

Gaudu is just behind him and so secures fourth overall.

Today's time cut is given at 40:47. It will be a real battle for Fabio Jakobsen and the other sprinters. 

In the podium area, Pogacar again congratulates Vingegaard and then cools down on the rollers a little despondently. He knows his chance of winning the 2022 Tour have gone. 

Here is the first shot of Vingegaard's stage win in yellow.

This is the moment Vingegaard won the stage. 

A HUGE moment in Danish cycling 👏🇩🇰 Jonas Vingegaard takes a giant step to winning the 2022 Tour de France 🤩#TDF2022 | @JumboVismaRoad | @discoveryplusUK pic.twitter.com/Er0HDEBYL6 July 21, 2022

This is how Pogacar finished. He gave his all but Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma were stronger.

This was the moment Vingegaard won the stage. 

💪 A monstrous effort from Jonas Vingegaard 💪 Un effort monstrueux de Jonas Vingegaard !#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/UamPquNrpV July 21, 2022

Jonas Vingegaard spoke about why he wanted to win the stage in the yellow jersey.

"It's incredible. This morning I said to my girlfriend and daughter I wanted to win for them and I did. I'm really really happy and proud I won for them. This one is really for my two girls at home," he said soon after the finish.

"I was just happy it finally ended. It was incredibly hard. I'm also really happy I won the stage. Now there's still two more days to come before we are in Paris so we need to keep focus and we'll take it day by day again."

He also explained what happened when Pogacar crashed.

"I think he missed the corner and then he went down into the gravel and tried to steer it out and the bike disappeared under him. Then I waited for him." Vingegaard explained. 

"I have to thank all my teammates, they're incredible. You see Wout van Aert dropping Tadej Pogacar in the end, Sepp Kuss was incredible, everyone was incredible, Tiejs, Christophe, Nathan, they were all incredible. 

"Thanks so much to my teammates, I could never done this without them."

Incredibly Wout van Aert climbed to 22nd on GC with his ride today. 

He also has Saturday's time trial to add another victory and more time.

Adam Yates has been sick for several days but fought to stay in the top ten. 

A top ride from @AdamYates7 today. He sits 10th overall at #TDF2022 with the mountains now in the rearview mirror 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/hmYNXm40cH July 21, 2022

Louis Meintjes also rode well and is now sixth overall. 

Louis Meintjes is now 6th overall of @LeTour after his magnificent attacking display in stage 18 🤩 #TDF2022📸 @PhotoNewsBe pic.twitter.com/brKvoew9NZ July 21, 2022

Geraint Thomas again fought all the way to the finish. He is still third overall, at 8:00.

In a hugely successful day for Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma, he also took the polka-dot jersey after Simon Geschke was unable to get into the early break and so score as few points to defend his narrow lead.

Geschke was in tears when he reached the finish.

To read out full stage report, see pour growing photo gallery and the full results, click below. 

Vingegaard soars to Hautacam win on Tour de France stage 18

MVP today was Wout van Aert. 

Respectful rivals.

💛 An exhausted Yellow Jersey but a victorious Yellow Jersey atop the Hautacam! And an always graceful @TamauPogi!💛 Un Maillot Jaune épuisé, mais un Maillot Jaune triomphant aujourd'hui à Hautacam ! Et un @TamauPogi toujours aussi fair-play !#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/6kwOCe7rE3 July 21, 2022

Wout van Aert was immense today, going in the break again, scoring more green jersey points, staying away on the high mountains and then being there to help drop Pogacar and set-up Vingegaard.

He was naturally voted the Combativité of the stage and probably will win the Combativité prize for the whole Tour.

Vingegaard strengthened his overall race lead by winning the stage.

Click below to see the latest GC standings.

The current GC standings in the 2022 Tour de France after stage 18

Click below to read our full stage report and to see our photo gallery and the full results by our friends First Cycling.

Fabio Jakobsen arrived at finish with a good margin 36:40 after Vingegaard but inside the 40:46 time limit. 

Friday's stage to Cahors is flat but there's a risk of crosswind all day and a break will want to try to holds off the sprinters but he is now set to make it to Paris and also sprint for the stage in on the Champs Elysees. 

Thanks for joining us for our full live coverage of stage 18 and our post-stage reaction. 

Barry Ryan and Daniel Ostanek are in the Pyrenees for Cyclingnews and will soon have more news, reaction and analysis of the day's race. 

We'll be back on Friday for full coverage of the 188.3km 19th stage from Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors. 

Hautacam was the last mountain stage of this year's Tour de France and the riders can now 'see' Paris and the end of the race on Sunday.

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Tour de France 2023, étape 18 : Profil et parcours détaillés

Ce jeudi, les sprinteurs vont être de retour sur le devant de la scène du Tour de France 2023 à l’occasion de la 18e étape. Au programme du parcours de l’étape du jour les coureurs toujours en course vont avoir quelque 184,9 kilomètres légèrement accidentés à parcourir et un profil de 1.216 mètres de dénivelé positif à grimper. Au départ de Moûtiers, Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) est le grandissime favori dans le cadre d’une arrivée au sprint à Bourg-en-Bresse.

Le peloton va s’élancer de Moûtiers à 13h05 pour le traditionnel défilé neutralisé. Et c’est à 13h35 que les coureurs vont arriver au kilomètre zéro et que Christian Prudhomme va donner le départ de cette 18e étape direction Bourg-en-Bresse. Les sprinteurs sont attendus en vainqueurs sur la ligne d’arrivée aux alentours de 17h30 (47 km/h de moyenne). Le peloton va d’abord évoluer dans le département de la Savoie pour en terminer par le département de l’Ain.

La liste des participants (startlist) : cliquer ici Les abandons de la course : cliquer ici Les favoris et outsiders : cliquer ici Les réactions des coureurs à l’arrivée de chaque étape : cliquer ici Vidéo résumé de chacune des étapes : cliquer ici

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La passe de 5 victoires pour Jasper Philipsen à Bourg-en-Bresse ?

Au regard des quatre victoires d’étapes déjà obtenues par Jasper Philipsen depuis le départ de Bilbao, force est de constater qu’à une seule reprise il s’est incliné face à plus fort, et en l’occurrence face à un certain Mads Pedersen. Cependant, sur ce type de final, il y a fort à parier que le sprinteur de l’équipe Alpecin-Fenix a toutes les chances de remporter un cinquième succès sur cette Grande Boucle 2023, et en attendant peut-être encore mieux sur les Champs-Elysées.

Du côté du parcours et du profil de l’étape du jour , pas de quoi inquiéter les spécialistes de la dernière ligne droite. Une fois la mi-parcours passée, le peloton pourra se mettre en ordre de marche en vue de l’emballage final. Mais auparavant, tout ce petit monde, peloton et échappée, auront été freinés successivement par dans un premier temps la Côte de Chambéry-le-Haut (1,6km à 4,1%) suivie de la Côte de Boissieu (2,4km à 4,7%) , situées respectivement aux kilomètres 62,1 et 105,2. Ces deux ascensions sont classées en 4e catégorie.

Le s print intermédiaire va avoir lieu une fois les deux difficultés du jour arpentées, au kilomètre 132,9 à Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey. Les Philipsen, Pedersen, Coquard et consorts pourront se tester et prendre des points au classement distinctif en attendant l’emballage final.

Le programme TV du jeudi 20 juillet

Ce jeudi 20 juillet et à l’occasion de la 18e étape du Tour de France 2023 vous allez avoir rendez-vous avec soit Alexandre Pasteur, Yoann Offredo, Laurent Jalabert, Marion Rousse et Thomas Vockler sur France 3 à partir de 12h55 puis France 2 à partir de 15h . Du côté de la chaine payante par abonnement, les images seront diffusées en direct à partir de 13h35 et jusqu’à 17h45 sur Eurosport 1 . Et dans ce cas les commentaires seront assurés par Guillaume di Grazia assisté de ses consultants TV que sont Jacky Durand et Steve Chainel. L’émission « Les Rois de la Pédale » précèdera et succèdera l’étape du jour. Toujours sur la même chaine, une rediffusion du résumé est proposée à partir de 21h00 (120 minutes).

Les favoris de la 18e étape du Tour de France 2023

***  Jasper Philipsen ** Phil Bauhaus , Biniam Girmay , Bryan Coquard , Mads Pedersen * Alexander Kristoff , Sam Welsford , Wout Van Aert , Dylan Groenewegen , Peter Sagan, Luca Mozzato, Jordi Meeus, Danny van Poppel, Nils Eekhoff, Jasper De Buyst

Carte du parcours de la 18e étape du Tour de France 2023 (Moûtiers / Bourg-en-Bresse)

Classement général du Tour de France 2023 au départ de la 18e étape

1 – VINGEGAARD Jonas (Jumbo-Visma) en 67:57:51 2 – POGACAR Tadej (UAE Team Emirates) + 7:35 3 – YATES Adam (UAE Team Emirates) + 10:45 4 – RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (INEOS Grenadiers) + 12:01 5 – YATES Simon (Team Jayco AlUla) + 12:19 6 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain – Victorious) + 12:50 7 – HINDLEY Jai (BORA – hansgrohe) + 13:50 8 – GALL Felix (AG2R Citroën Team) + 16:11 9 – KUSS Sepp (Jumbo-Visma) + 16:49 10 – GAUDU David (Groupama – FDJ) + 17:57

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11 – MARTIN Guillaume (Cofidis) + 22:53 12 – PINOT Thibaut (Groupama – FDJ) + 27:26 13 – CASTROVIEJO Jonathan (INEOS Grenadiers) + 46:57 14 – HARPER Chris (Team Jayco AlUla) + 54:31 15 – MAJKA Rafał (UAE Team Emirates) + 55:15 16 – KELDERMAN Wilco (Jumbo-Visma) + 1:03:42 17 – MADOUAS Valentin (Groupama – FDJ) + 1:08:54 18 – O’CONNOR Ben (AG2R Citroën Team) + 1:13:29 19 – BARGUIL Warren (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 1:28:25 20 – GROßSCHARTNER Felix (UAE Team Emirates) + 1:37:13

21 – VAN AERT Wout (Jumbo-Visma) + 1:32:57 22 – GROßSCHARTNER Felix (UAE Team Emirates) + 1:37:13 23 – JUNGELS Bob (BORA – hansgrohe) + 1:46:15 24 – BENOOT Tiesj (Jumbo-Visma) + 1:47:28 25 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl – Trek) + 1:51:28 26 – POELS Wout (Bahrain – Victorious) + 1:58:57 27 – HAIG Jack (Bahrain – Victorious) + 2:08:52 28 – JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 2:10:47 29 – ALAPHILIPPE Julian (Soudal – Quick Step) + 2:11:45 30 – CICCONE Giulio (Lidl – Trek) + 2:13:25 31 – GENIETS Kevin (Groupama – FDJ) + 2:21:19 32 – VAN BAARLE Dylan (Jumbo-Visma) + 2:27:35 33 – KWIATKOWSKI Michał (INEOS Grenadiers) + 2:30:48 34 – LUTSENKO Alexey (Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 2:32:26 35 – MÜHLBERGER Gregor (Movistar Team) + 2:38:00 36 – GREGAARD Jonas (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 2:38:04 37 – SCHULTZ Nick (Israel – Premier Tech) + 2:39:46 38 – HOULE Hugo (Israel – Premier Tech) + 2:41:34 39 – SOLER Marc (UAE Team Emirates) + 2:43:03 40 – CHAMPOUSSIN Clément (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 2:44:20

41 – PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (AG2R Citroën Team) + 2:45:46 42 – ZIMMERMANN Georg (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 2:46:26 43 – KÜNG Stefan (Groupama – FDJ) + 2:51:47 44 – OLIVEIRA Nelson (Movistar Team) + 2:55:05 45 – DINHAM Matthew (Team dsm – firmenich) + 2:58:13 46 – VERMAERKE Kevin (Team dsm – firmenich) + 3:07:06 47 – VAN DER POEL Mathieu (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 3:07:42 48 – POLITT Nils (BORA – hansgrohe) + 3:08:42 49 – FRAILE Omar (INEOS Grenadiers) + 3:12:35 50 – VAN DEN BERG Lars (Groupama – FDJ) + 3:27:57 51 – CHAMPOUSSIN Clément (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 2:44:20 52 – PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (AG2R Citroën Team) + 2:45:46 53 – ZIMMERMANN Georg (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 2:46:26 54 – NEILANDS Krists (Israel – Premier Tech) + 2:47:10 55 – KÜNG Stefan (Groupama – FDJ) + 2:51:47 56 – OLIVEIRA Nelson (Movistar Team) + 2:55:05 57 – ARANBURU Alex (Movistar Team) + 2:57:48 58 – DINHAM Matthew (Team dsm – firmenich) + 2:58:13 59 – VAN GILS Maxim (Lotto Dstny) + 3:04:17 60 – VERMAERKE Kevin (Team dsm – firmenich) + 3:07:06

61 – VAN DER POEL Mathieu (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 3:07:42 62 – POLITT Nils (BORA – hansgrohe) + 3:08:42 63 – POWLESS Neilson (EF Education-EasyPost) + 3:11:59 64 – FRAILE Omar (INEOS Grenadiers) + 3:12:35 65 – CAMPENAERTS Victor (Lotto Dstny) + 3:12:40 66 – LOUVEL Matis (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 3:16:18 67 – GESCHKE Simon (Cofidis) + 3:17:54 68 – DELAPLACE Anthony (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 3:20:54 69 – PACHER Quentin (Groupama – FDJ) + 3:21:26 70 – LÓPEZ Juan Pedro (Lidl – Trek) + 3:25:59 71 – VAN DEN BERG Lars (Groupama – FDJ) + 3:27:57 72 – PEREZ Anthony (Cofidis) + 3:30:55 73 – COSTA Rui (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 3:31:10 74 – MOHORIČ Matej (Bahrain – Victorious) + 3:32:41 75 – STUYVEN Jasper (Lidl – Trek) + 3:33:18 76 – LATOUR Pierre (TotalEnergies) + 3:34:51 77 – URÁN Rigoberto (EF Education-EasyPost) + 3:35:29 78 – GUGLIELMI Simon (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 3:37:21 79 – PETERS Nans (AG2R Citroën Team) + 3:39:34 80 – CRADDOCK Lawson (Team Jayco AlUla) + 3:39:45

81 – CALMEJANE Lilian (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 3:40:29 82 – KONRAD Patrick (BORA – hansgrohe) + 3:43:18 83 – GALLOPIN Tony (Lidl – Trek) + 3:45:05 84 – NAESEN Oliver (AG2R Citroën Team) + 3:49:22 85 – ABRAHAMSEN Jonas (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 3:49:46 86 – EENKHOORN Pascal (Lotto Dstny) + 3:50:32 87 – DEWULF Stan (AG2R Citroën Team) + 3:51:00 88 – HALLER Marco (BORA – hansgrohe) + 3:53:06 89 – VAN HOOYDONCK Nathan (Jumbo-Visma) + 3:57:40 90 – LAFAY Victor (Cofidis) + 3:58:26 91 – FERRON Valentin (TotalEnergies) + 3:58:41 92 – TRÆEN Torstein (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 3:58:45 93 – ASGREEN Kasper (Soudal – Quick Step) + 3:59:11 94 – BETTIOL Alberto (EF Education-EasyPost) + 4:00:03 95 – LAPORTE Christophe (Jumbo-Visma) + 4:01:20 96 – CORT Magnus (EF Education-EasyPost) + 4:01:45 97 – OSS Daniel (TotalEnergies) + 4:07:34 98 – STRONG Corbin (Israel – Premier Tech) + 4:08:35 99 – TEUNISSEN Mike (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 4:10:06 100 – TURGIS Anthony (TotalEnergies) + 4:11:02

101 – BOASSON HAGEN Edvald (TotalEnergies) + 4:11:06 102 – CHARMIG Anthon (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 4:11:42 103 – COQUARD Bryan (Cofidis) + 4:12:32 104 – WRIGHT Fred (Bahrain – Victorious) + 4:14:08 105 – CAVAGNA Rémi (Soudal – Quick Step) + 4:15:39 106 – PHILIPSEN Jasper (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:15:44 107 – COSNEFROY Benoît (AG2R Citroën Team) + 4:16:27 108 – HERMANS QuintenvAlpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:16:33 109 – LAENGEN Vegard Stake (UAE Team Emirates) + 4:17:08 110 – CLARKE Simon (Israel – Premier Tech) + 4:17:40 111 – LAMPAERT Yves (Soudal – Quick Step) + 4:21:53 112 – SMITH Dion (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 4:24:07 113 – RICKAERT Jonas (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:25:18 114 – PEDERSEN Mads (Lidl – Trek) + 4:25:25 115 – KIRSCH Alex (Lidl – Trek) + 4:26:01 116 – TRENTIN Matteo (UAE Team Emirates) + 4:26:09 117 – AMADOR Andrey (EF Education-EasyPost) + 4:27:57 118 – TILLER Rasmus (Uno-X Pro Cycling Teamv4:28:32 119 – VAN POPPEL Danny (BORA – hansgrohe) + 4:30:05 120 – JUUL-JENSEN Christopher (Team Jayco AlUla) + 4:30:58

121 – DILLIER Silvan (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:32:57 122 – KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:35:18 123 – ARNDT Nikias (Bahrain – Victorious) + 4:36:38 124 – MEZGEC Luka (Team Jayco AlUla) + 4:38:07 125 – GIRMAY Biniam (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 4:38:51 126 – BOIVIN Guillaume (Israel – Premier Tech) + 4:39:32 127 – GOGL Michael (Alpecin-Deceuninck) + 4:40:19 128 – DEVENYNS Dries (Soudal – Quick Step) + 4:40:46 129 – VERMEERSCH Florian (Lotto Dstny) + 4:41:18 130 – DURBRIDGE Luke (Team Jayco AlUla) + 4:42:33 131 – LE GAC Olivier (Groupama – FDJ) + 4:43:23 132 – DECLERCQ Tim (Soudal – Quick Step) + 4:43:45 133 – BIERMANS Jenthe (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 4:44:18 134 – BJERG Mikkel (UAE Team Emirates) + 4:44:27 135 – SAGAN Peter (TotalEnergies) + 4:45:55 136 – KRISTOFF Alexander (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 4:49:20 137 – MOZZATO Luca (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 4:52:02 138 – PICHON Laurent (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 4:54:45 139 – MOSCON Gianni (Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 4:55:41 140 – DE BUYST Jasper (Lotto Dstny) + 4:56:49

141 – EEKHOFF Nils (Team dsm – firmenich) + 4:58:21 142 – REINDERS Elmar (Team Jayco AlUla) + 5:02:58 143 – WÆRENSKJOLD Søren (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 5:03:46 144 – PETIT Adrien (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) + 5:05:53 145 – WELSFORD Sam (Team dsm – firmenich) + 5:07:49 146 – GROENEWEGEN Dylan (Team Jayco AlUla) + 5:07:52 147 – DEGENKOLB John (Team dsm – firmenich) + 5:09:38 148 – MEEUS Jordi (BORA – hansgrohe) + 5:10:19 149 – EDMONDSON Alex (Team dsm – firmenich) + 5:13:10 150 – ZINGLE Axel (Cofidis) + 5:15:38 151 – FEDOROV Yevgeniy (Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 5:20:39 152 – FRISON Frederik (Lotto Dstny) + 5:20:44 153 – BOL Cees (Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 5:23:13 154 – MØRKØV Michael (Soudal – Quick Step) + 5:32:40

Classement par points – Top 10

1 – PHILIPSEN Jasper (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 323 points 2 – PEDERSEN Mads (Lidl – Trek) 186 points 3 – COQUARD Bryan (Cofidis) 178 points 4 – VAN AERT Wout (Jumbo-Visma) 154 points 5 – POGAČAR Tadej (UAE Team Emirates) 146 points 6 – VINGEGAARD Jonas (Jumbo-Visma) 107 points 7 – MEEUS Jordi (BORA – hansgrohe) 96 points 8 – BILBAO Pello (Bahrain – Victorious) 95 points 9 – GROENEWEGEN Dylan (Team Jayco AlUla) 92 points 10 – GIRMAY Biniam (Intermarché – Circus – Wanty) 90 points

Classement meilleur grimpeur – Top 10

1 – CICCONE Giulio (Lidl – Trek) 88 points 2 – GALL Felix (AG2R Citroën Team) 82 points 3 – VINGEGAARD Jonas (Jumbo-Visma) 81 points 4 – POWLESS NeilsonvEF Education-EasyPost) 58 points 5 – POGAČAR Tadej (UAE Team Emirates) 49 points 6 – VAN AERT Wout (Jumbo-Visma) 47 points 7 – YATES Simon (Team Jayco AlUla) 40 points 8 – JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) 38 points 9 – HINDLEY Jai (BORA – hansgrohe) 31 points 10 – KWIATKOWSKI Michał (INEOS Grenadiers) 30 points

Classement meilleur jeune – Top 10

1 – POGAČAR Tadej (UAE Team Emirates) en 68:05:26 2 – RODRÍGUEZ Carlos (INEOS Grenadiers) + 4:26 3 – GALL Felix (AG2R Citroën Team) + 8:36 4 – PIDCOCK Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) + 49:04 5 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl – Trek) + 1:43:53 6 – BURGAUDEAU Mathieu (TotalEnergies) + 1:53:37 7 – JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) + 2:03:12 8 – CHAMPOUSSIN Clément (Team Arkéa Samsic) + 2:36:45 9 – DINHAM Matthew (Team dsm – firmenich) + 2:50:38 10 – VAN GILS Maxim (Lotto Dstny) + 2:56:42

Classement par équipes – Top 10

1 – Jumbo-Visma en 204:45:10 2 – UAE Team Emirates + 15:15 3 – INEOS Grenadiers + 20:56 4 – Bahrain – Victorious + 42:48 5 – Groupama – FDJ + 47:47 6 – AG2R Citroën Team + 1:53:23 7 – BORA – hansgrohe + 1:53:43 8 – Team Jayco AlUla + 3:12:59 9 – Movistar Team + 4:01:02 10 – Cofidis + 4:27:12

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The riders clip into their pedals near the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes and leave the pilgrimage site behind to enter the Pyrenees. On virtually flat roads the route travels to Laruns and after 60 kilometres in the saddle the climbing begins.

The Col d’Aubisque is a climb of 16.4 kilometres at 7.1% before the riders descend via the Col du Soulor to Ferrières. That’s the base of the Col de Spandelles, which is a 10.3 kilometres climb at 8.3%.

A long descent leads to Argelès-Gazost, and that’s the base of the finish climb.

The ascent to ski resort Hautacam is a scenic one-way climb. The length is 13.6 kilometres and the average gradient sits at 7.8%. The second half is the hardest part with kilometres 8, 9 and 11 standing out – respectively with gradients at 10.3%, 11.3%, and 10.4%.

It’s the sixth time the Hautacam ascent is included in the Tour de France. Luc Leblanc won in 1994, Bjarne Riis in 1996 , Javier Otxoa in 2000, Juan José Cobo in 2008, and in 2014 Vincenzo Nibali took the win. With the exception of Otxoa and Nibali all these riders were affiliated with doping at some point in their career.

The first three riders on the line gain time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds.

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Tour de France 2023 stage 18 preview - an opportunity for the sprinters

While stage 18 looks like an opportunity for the sprinters, some of the early climbs makes it slightly more complicated for them

Words: Stephen Puddicombe

Photos: Alex Whitehead/SWPix.com

Distance: 184.9km Start location: Moûtiers Finish location: Bourg-en-Bresse Start time: 13:05 CEST Finish time (approx): 17:31 CEST

A lot has happened in cycling since Bourg-en-Bresse last hosted a Tour de France stage in 2007. On that occasion, a 22-year-old Mark Cavendish riding his Grand Tour debut was denied showing the world what he could do in a bunch sprint when a mechanical halted his progress, while earlier a 27-year-old Bradley Wiggins, then known as a track specialist far too heavy to even dream about competing for the yellow jersey, spent most of the day out front in a one-man breakaway (‘someone has to make sure there is some entertainment’ was his typically deadpan reasoning). Their extraordinary achievements put into perspective just how much their careers, and British cycling in general, progressed over the next decade.

That stage finished in a sprint won by Tom Boonen, but, although the parcours today is similar, with just two categorised climbs to be overcome and little undulating terrain in between, a repeat of that outcome is far from a foregone conclusion. Whereas that stage took place during the opening week, this one comes just days away from the Tour’s completion, and recent history illustrates just how difficult it is for sprinters’ teams to control breakaways this deep into a Grand Tour — excluding the Paris finales, there hasn’t been a bunch sprint during the third week of a Tour since the 2019 edition, with Søren Kragh Andersen, Matej Mohorič and last year Christophe Laporte all denying the sprinters on stages with comparably flattish parcours.

Stage 18 profile sourced via ASO

Although there was the potential to send the riders up some climbs (such as Val Thorens, which was climbed from today’s start town Moûtiers in a reduced stage of the 2019 Tour, won by Vincenzo Nibali), the organisers have taken pity on the sprinters, who have fought long and hard since their last opportunity way back in Moulins at the start of the second week. Of the climbs that have been included, neither amounts to much; the Côte de Chambéry-le-Haut and Côte de Boissieu are both ranked only category four, and are completed with 80km of flat still to ride.

It is unusual though to have, as is the case this year, three sprint chances in the last four days, so there may be a degree of complacency among the sprinters’ teams in the knowledge that they have tomorrow to fall back on if they fail to bring the break back today. At 185km, this is also a very long stage — the longest of the final two weeks, in fact —so if a strong breakaway group can get up the road at the start of the day, even the modest terrain will make this a lengthy, difficult chase for the sprinters’ teams in the peloton.

After a gruelling second week in the high mountains, the riders have returned to more favourable terrain for the sprinters. However, after the tough gradients and steep inclines they have had to tackle over the last couple of days not all of the key favourites remain in the race, which creates some opportunities for other fast finishers.

However, one formidable obstacle stands in the way of those searching for sprint victories:  Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who has been dominating the bunch sprints this year. With four wins already this Tour, he has proven to be the fastest rider on flat terrain, bolstered by the support of his teammate and top lead-out man Mathieu van der Poel. The final one kilometre straight, flat run-in to the finish will play to Philipsen's strengths, making it a daunting task for anyone to beat this sprinting star.

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) has shown he can outpace Philipsen after winning stage eight, but that was with a more challenging finish. He’s certainly fast, but he will need to go all in to beat his Belgian rival today. 

Meanwhile, several sprinters are still in pursuit of a stage win, including Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-Alula), Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty), Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team), and Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe). While all have had solid performances in this Tour, only Groenewegen and Girmay have secured podium finishes thus far. The competition remains fierce as they strive to achieve that elusive victory.

We think Jasper Philipsen will dominate once again and add a fifth Tour stage to his palmarès this year.

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EN DIRECT - Tour de France: l'échappée est allée au bout, victoire de Kasper Asgreen

"il faut qu’il dégonfle un peu le melon", l’attitude de philipsen fait parler.

À environ 80km de l’arrivée de la 18e étape du Tour de France ce jeudi, Jasper Philipsen a tenté d'intimider Pascal Eenkhoorn, qui essayait de sortir du peloton, en venant jouer des coudes avec le coureur néerlandais. Si elle n’a pas été sanctionnée, cette attitude a quelque peu écorné l’image du sprinteur belge.

>> L’attitude de Philipsen fait parler, notre article complet ici

"J'étais assez ému", admet Pogacar après sa défaillance sur la 17e étape mercredi

Tadej Pogacar: "J'ai plutôt bien dormi, la journée s'est bien passée. Je m'en suis remis, c'était difficile au début. J'étais assez ému mais tout le monde m'a remonté le moral dans le peloton. C'était bien d'être dans le peloton pour une journée plus calme. Je n'arrive pas à croire tout le soutien que j'ai reçu, déjà hier pendant toute l'ascension. Il y a tellement de gens qui m'ont soutenu, et ma famille, ma compagne aussi. Tout le public le long de la route aussi, je suis reconnaissant d'avoir tous ces fans qui me soutiennent."

"Beaucoup de motivation", Pinot annonce la couleur avant la 20e étape dans les Vosges

Thibaut Pinot (France 2): "C’était une journée horrible aujourd’hui. Mentalement, c’était très compliqué car on était off pour essayer de récupérer l’étape d’hier. Samedi, ce sont des routes que je connais par coeur et il y a beaucoup de motivation."

Samedi, dans les Vosges, six cols classés seront au programme des coureurs, avec notamment deux cols de 1ère catégorie pour finir.

>> Pinot annonce la couleur pour l'étape de samedi, la déclaration complète du Français ici

Les images du final de cette 18e étape, avec l'échappée qui va au bout

Le classement de cette 18e étape.

1. K. Asgreen (DAN)

2. P. Eenkhorn (P-B), +0"

3. J. Abrahamsen (NOR), +0"

4. J. Phillipsen (BEL), +0"

5. M. Pedersen (DAN), +0"

La première réaction du héros du jour, Kasper Asgreen

La réaction de Kasper Asgreen, vainqueur de cette 18e étape: "On a eu des semaines difficiles. On a déjà eu des petits groupes comme ça qui pouvaient battre les sprinteurs. C’était un chrono par équipe aujourd’hui (sourire). Je suis très heureux de cette victoire, ça veut dire beaucoup pour moi avec tout ce que j’ai vécu depuis ma chute sur le Tour de Suisse (en juin 2022). J’ai fait un long chemin, je reviens de loin."

ET LA VICTOIRE DE KASPER AGREEEN !

L'échappée est allée au bout ! Les quatre hommes de tête ont résisté au peloton jusqu'à la ligne et c'est le coureur danois de la Soudal Quick-Step qui s'impose au sprint. Le peloton a échoué à seulement quelques mètres.

Aucun changement au classement général, Jonas Vingegaard reste largement en tête.

1km - Les quatre hommes toujours devant sous la flamme rouge !

Quel numéro !

1,5km - Les échappés toujours pas repris

7 secondes d'avance pour Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahams, qui ne lâchent rien !

3,5km - Moins de 10 secondes pour les échappés

Le peloton devrait - normalement - les avaler. Mais rien n'est fait dans ce final très tendu.

5km - Le peloton revient fort

Sous la bannière des 5km, les échappés ont moins de 15 secondes d'avance. Le peloton revient.

7km - Gros numéro des quatre échappés

Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahamsen ne faiblissent pas et restent à environ 20-25 secondes devant le peloton. Et si... ?

9km - Toujours la vingtaine de secondes d'avance pour les hommes de tête

Le peloton peine à s'organiser et les échappés peuvent toujours y croire.

13km - Du mouvement dans l'échappée

Les quatre hommes de tête tentent de mettre un dernier coup de collier. 27 secondes d'avance pour l'échappée.

15km -Les échappés continuent de perdre du terrain

Moins de 30 secondes d'avance désormais pour Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahamsen.

18km - 40 secondes d'avance pour les hommes de tête

Le peloton sait qu'il n'a plus de temps à perdre pour revenir et jouer la victoire d'étape au sprint. Les équipes qui ont des coureurs dans l'échappée tentent de semer la zizanie en tête du peloton.

23km - Les échappés font de la résistance

Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahamsen maintiennent leur avance aux alentours des 45 secondes. Les équipes de sprinteurs vont devoir être vigilantes pour revenir avant le final.

29km - Les quatre hommes de tête perdent du terrain

Désormais une grosse quarantaine de secondes d'avance pour les échappés. Le peloton s'est remis en ordre de marche.

35km - L'échappée toujours au-dessus de la minute

Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahamsen ont 1'03" d'avance sur le peloton.

42km - Toujours la minute d'avance pour l'échappée

Les quatre hommes de tête (Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts, Pascal Eenkhoorn et Jonas Abrahamsen) maintiennent leur avance sur le peloton.

50km - Abrahamsen règle le sprint intermédiaire

Le coureur norvégien a réglé ses compagnons d'échappée au sprint.

52km - Regroupement en tête de course

Ils sont désormais quatre à l'avant: les deux coéquipiers Campanaerts et Eenkhorn ont rejoint Abrahamsen et Asgreen. L'écart est de 55 secondes avec le peloton.

61km - Campanaerts attend Eenkhoorn

Membre du trio de tête, Campanaerts s'est relevé pour attendre Eekhoorn, son coéquipier. Les deux coéquipiers sont à 9 secondes de Kasper Asgreen et Jonas Abrahamsen. Le peloton pointe lui à 46 secondes de la tête.

65km - Attaque de Pascal Eenkhoorn

Le coureur néerlandais est sorti du peloton et a pris plusieurs dizaines de mètres d'avance. Il est intercalé entre le peloton et les trois hommes de tête, Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts et Jonas Abrahamsen.

67km - L'écart se réduit pour les trois hommes de tête

Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts et Jonas Abrahamsen ont désormais 25 secondes d'avance sur le peloton.

72km - Abandon de Simon Geschke

Le coureur allemand de Cofidis, malade et lâché par le peloton dès le début de l'étape, a jeté l'éponge. Il ne verra pas Paris.

76km - Fin de la contre-attaque, Lafay lâché

Pacher et Wrigt ont été repris par le peloton. Victor Lafay, lui, ne peut pas suivre et est lâché par le peloton.

79km - Plusieurs attaques pour sortir du peloton

Après Anthony Turgis, Quentin Pacher est sorti du peloton pouressayer derevenir sur les trois hommes de tête (Kasper Asgreen, Victor Campenaerts et Jonas Abrahamsen). Ces dernierrs ont 45 secondes d'avance sur le peloton.

80km- Ça accélère en tête du peloton

Le peloton se réveille et plusieurs équipes augmentent le tempo. Anthony Turgis tente de se faire la malle. Les trois hommes de tête sont à 35 secondes.

"J’ai dû hurler", Thomas Voeckler raconte l’incident avec sa moto dans le col de la Loze

La moto France Télévisions de Thomas Voeckler a été exclue de la 18e étape du Tour de France après un incident dans le col de la Loze sur la 17e étape. Ce jeudi, l’ancien coureur a livré sa version des faits dans les colonnes du Parisien.

>> Thomas Voeckler raconte l’incident avec sa moto dans le col de la Loze, les explications de l'ancien coureur sont ici

Les coureurs entrent dans l'Ain

A 96km de l'arrivée, les coureurs sont désormais dans le départment de l'Ain. Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X), le trio de tête, compte toujours près d'1 minute d'avance sur le peloton, qui garde le contrôle de la situation et reste à distance raisonnable.

Plus que 100km avant l'arrivée à Bourg-en-Bresse

Il reste une centaine de kilomètres jusqu'au final de cette 18e étape. Les trois échappés ont repris un peu d'avance et comptent à nouveau une minute de marge sur le peloton, qui contrôle tranquillement l'affaire, emmené par les équipes de sprinteurs.

Les échappés abordent le tunnel du Chat avec (un peu) moins d'avance

A 108km de l'arrivée, le tio d'échappés, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X), ne compte plus que 40 secondes d'avance sur le peloton à l'heure de s'engouffrer dans le tunnel du Chat.

Les coureurs passent près du lac du Bourget

Les coureurs sont dans le secteur du lac du Bourget. Le ciel est dégagé en Savoie. Le thermomètre frôle avec les 30 degrés.

L'écart se maintient entre les échappés et le peloton

A 115km de l'arrivée de cette 18e étape, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X), le trio d'échappés, compte toujours près d'1 minute d'avance sur le peloton, qui maintient l'écart sur les routes de Savoie.

Abrahamsen est passé en tête en haut de la côte de Chambéry

Les échappés comptent près d'une minute d'avance.

A 123km de l'arrivée à Bourg-en-Bresse, Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X), les trois échappés, comptent environ une minute d'avance sur le peloton au moment de l'ascension de la côte de Chambéry-le-Haut (1,6km à 4,3%).

Vingegaard tranquille dans le peloton

Après avoir écrasé la concurrence ces derniers jours, Jonas Vingegaard, le maillot jaune, est sereinement installé dans le peloton.

L'avance de l'échappée augmente (un peu)

Le trio de tête ne relâche pas son effort. Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X) gagnent quelques secondes sur le peloton.

Les trois coureurs ont 1'10'' d'avance sur le peloton.

Toujours trois coureurs à l'avant

Personne ne sort du peloton pour se mêmer à l'échappée. Ils ne sont donc que trois à tenter d'animer cette étape: Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamssen (Uno-X).

Derrière, la formation de Jasper Philipsen, grandissime favori en cas de sprint massif, contrôle tranquillement l'écart avec les hommes de tête.

L'échappée bien contrôlée par le peloton

Toujours trois coureurs à l'avant. Cette 18e étape entre Moûtiers et Bourg-en-Bresse peine à s'emballer. Après la rudesse du col de la Loze, mercredi, le spectacle ne devrait pas être emballant ce jeudi.

Le peloton contrôle tranquillement l'échappée et ne lui laisse qu'une petite minute d'avance. Sauf miracle, elle n'ira pas au bout et l'arrivée se règlera dans un sprint massif.

La défaillance de Pogacar l'a rendu encore plus populaire

En perdition dans le col de la Loze, Tadej Pogacar a réussi a gardé le sourire mercredi à l'arrivée de la 17e étape. Un état d'esprit qui a plu au public français selon Julien Jurdie.

Le directeur sportif de l'équipe AG2R-Citren a même comparé le Slovène à la légende Raymond Poulidor, l'éternel deuxième de la Grande Boucle.

L'organisation doit "se remettre en cause" pour éviter les incidents avec les motos

Le Tour de France va "se remettre en cause" pour éviter les incidents créés par des motos dans les cols où prend place un public "nouveau", a indiqué jeudi à l'AFP le directeur technique de la Grand Boucle, Thierry Gouvenou.

Alors que deux motos avaient déjà ralenti Tadej Pogacar au sommet de Joux Plane samedi dernier, un nouvel incident est survenu mercredi dans le col de la Loze où le maillot jaune Jonas Vingegaard et d'autres coureurs ont été retardés par une moto bloquée par le public qui a causé un embouteillage. Celle de Thomas Voeckler , sélectionneur de l'équipe de France et consultant pour France Télévisions, a été exclu avec son pilote de l'étape de jeudi par les commissaires de l'Union cycliste internationale (UCI).

"On se fait déborder par un nouveau public qu'on n'attendait pas, a estimé Thierry Gouvenou. Cela doit être l'effet Netflix ou l'intensité du duel Pogacar-Vingegaard, mais on se retrouve un peu dépourvus. On avait des points durs avant comme l'Alpe d'Huez et le Ventoux. Mais là c'est partout, partout."

Et le directeur technique du Tour d'enchaîner: "Il va falloir qu'on se pose pour trouver des solutions [...] Il va falloir se remettre en cause."

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171km - L'écart reste stable

Seulement 1'30" d'avance pour le trio, le peloton ne laisse pas filer afin de s'éviter une longue chasse.

179km- Plus d'une minute

Le trio creuse l'écart, sans vraiment forcer. Voilà une situation idéale pour Alpecin-Deceuninck et les autres équipes de sprinteurs.

182km - Une relance dans le peloton

La formation TotalEnergies tente de relancer dans le peloton mais Alpecin-Deceuninck contrôle pour Jasper Philipsen.

183km - 3 coureurs à l'avant

Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) et Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X) rejoignent Kasper Asgreen. Le peloton fait rideau derrière, on devrait retrouver un trio à l'avant.

Départ réel

Après un départ fictif de 30 minutes, les coureurs sont lâchés pour 184 kilomètres. Kasper Asgreen, en l'absence de Fabio Jakobsen, attaque le premier.

Avant le départ de la 18e étape du Tour de France, Julien Jurdie a tenté d'analyser l'engouement renforcé autour de Tadej Pogacar suite à sa défaillance de mercredi. Le directeur sportif de l'équipe AG2R-Citroën l'a comparé avec Raymond Poulidor.

"Tadej Pogacar, il a un peu été à l’image de Poupou. C’est clair qu’il a cette facilité à avoir le sourire Pogi. Il est assez décontracté donc forcément cela plaît au public, a estimé le dirigeant de la formation française. On sait que le public français a toujours une petite attache particulière avec…le perdant ce serait un grand mot… Il y a toute la magie de Poupou qui a été faite depuis des années et des années avec toutes ses deuxièmes places. Effectivement je pense que le public français, notamment, a toujours un œil sur le deuxième. Et quand il est sympathique et toujours avec la banane, forcément la ferveur populaire est peut-être un peu plus importante pour le deuxième."

Et Julien Jurdie de préciser au sujet d'un Tadej Pogacar plus humain: "Une défaillance comme celle qu’il a eu mercredi sur les pentes du col de la Loze, cela rend humain. Et je pense que tout le monde sait que le vélo est un sport très difficile, que la défaillance peut arriver à tout moment et qu’elle se paye cher. Cela a été le cas pour Pogi mais effectivement cela le rend encore plus populaire."

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Anthony Perez non-partant

Le Français Anthony Perez, membre de la formation Cofidis, quitte le Tour de France pour des "raisons personnelles".

Tadej Pogacar remercie Marc Soler

Tadej Pogacar s'est exprimé sur le podium signature avant la 18e étape: "C'était dur, je dois remercier mon équipe et en particulier Marc Soler, qui m'a emmené jusqu'à la ligné et a sauvé mon podium. Nous sommes toujours là, debout."

"L'intensité des contrôles antidopage est extrême", assure Oudéa-Castéra

Au micro de FranceInfo, la ministre des Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra a réagi aux suspicions qui entourent ce Tour de France: "J'ai plutôt entendu les coureurs dire que les performances étaient ahurissantes mais sans scepticisme ni défiance. Pogacar a un coup de moins bien, c'est plus difficile. Il y a eu cette performance dans le contre la montre incroyable de Vingegaard. Aujourd'hui, l'intensité des contrôles antidopage est extrême par une entité indépendante, l'ITA. Il y a depuis une semaine et a fortiori pour le maillot jaune, des contrôles qui sont extrêmement intenses, y compris pour Vingegaard et Pogacar. Il y a des contrôles urinaires, sanguins mais aussi des vélos aux rayons X pour vérifier qu'il n'y a pas d'éléments de mécanique ou de moteur. Tout est fait pour que la question du dopage reste très loin de nous. Christian Prudhomme m'a donné l'assurance de la qualité et l'intensité de ce dispositif antidopage, qui est irréprochable sur le Tour de France. Je ne vais pas préjuger des résultats."

Van Aert quitte le Tour pour la naissance de son deuxième enfant

Wout van Aert quitte le Tour de France. Pas sur blessure mais pour pouvoir rejoindre sa compagne, qui va donner naissance à leur deuxième enfant.

Le parcours de cette 18e étape

Après un menu très copieux ce mercredi, la route va redevenir bien plus plate pour le peloton. Sur le papier, cette 18e étape semble plutôt promise aux sprinteurs, à moins qu'une échappée n'arrive à tirer son épingle du jeu.

Tous les classements après la 17e étape

Jonas Vingegaard a profité de la défaillance de Tadej Pogacar dans le col de la Loze mercredi pour s'offrir un sacré matelas en tête du classemet général.

Bonjour à tous

Bienvenue sur le site et l'application de RMC Sport pour suivre en direct et en intégralité la 18e étape du Tour de France entre Moûtiers et Bourg-en-Bresse.

Un Tour qui semble désormais plié. Après son gros coup dans le contre-la-montre, Jonas Vingegaard a pris un gros matelas d'avance de plus de sept minutes sur Tadej Pogacar , victime d'une terrible défaillance mercredi dans le col de la Loze.

Ce jeudi, de la plaine au programme: 184,9 km avec un profil voulu "le plus plat possible" par les organisateurs, pour permettre aux coureurs de récupérer des terribles épreuves dans les Alpes.

L'étape est à suivre en TV sur France Télévisions et Eurosport mais surtout toute la journée sur notre radio digitale RMC 100% Route .

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Tour de France – 18. etape

Hvad skete der? Kasper Asgreen vandt 18. etape af Tour de France efter en hel dag i udbrud.

Jonas Vingegaard holder fast i den gule førertrøje og forspringet på 7'35" til Tadej Pogacar i det samlede klassement.

Imponerende statistikker efter dagens etapesejr:

• Med Asgreens sejr har tre forskellige danskere nu vundet en etape i årets Tour de France – Mads Pedersen sejrede på 8. etape, mens Jonas Vingegaard vandt 16. etape. Kun i 1994 og 2022 har tre forskellige danskere vundet en etape i samme Tour de France-udgave.
• Med Asgreens sejr har Danmark fået den femte Grand Tour-etapesejr i år, da både Magnus Cort og Mads Pedersen hver vandt én etape i årets Giro d'Italia. Kun i 2022 (7) har Danmark høstet flere Grand Tour-etapesejre. Siden starten af sidste år har kun Belgien (16) vundet flere Grand Tour-etapesejre end Danmark (12).
• Asgreen blev den ottende rytter til at vinde både en Tour de France-etape og Flandern Rundt i dette århundrede. Dermed skriver koldingenseren sig ind i en eksklusiv klub med Fabian Cancellara, Tom Boonen, Philippe Gilbert, Peter Sagan, Alexander Kristoff, Tadej Pogacar og Mathieu van der Poel.

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Jeg har lige set tournstudoet, der blev sendt 18:25. Der blev vist billeder af kommentatorboksen, da Asgreen vandt. Mit spørgsmål er: hvorfor har Rolf hotpants på?😂

Ja, jeg ved faktisk ikke lige, hvad Rolf har taget på i dag, men jeg kan godt se, at de sidder langt oppe, haha :-).

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Mathieu van der Poel var én af dem, der kom over til Pogacar:

Se eller gense den vilde jubel fra kommentatorboksen her:, kolleger opmuntrede pogacar i starten af dagens etape.

Tadej Pogacar var selvsagt skuffet og ramt efter gårsdagens kollaps. Men heldigvis kom de gode kolleger ham til undsætning på starten af dagens etape.

- Starten var rigtig hård og ret, ja, ikke emotionel, men ... Mange kom bare over til mig og snakkede, og det var hårdt i starten. Tak til alle rytterne i feltet, for de opmuntrer mig, og i sidste ende kom jeg mig lidt fra i går, fortæller Pogacar i det officielle interview efter dagens etape.

I etaperesultatet står der +0 til alle i feltet. For mig ligner det at der er et tydeligt hul fra de forreste 3 til de andre. Misforstår jeg noget?

Hej Johannes

De havde et lille hul, men feltet kom så tæt på, at de blev noteret for samme tid :-).

Jasper Philipsen efter etapen:

Hvorfor holdt udbruddet hjem?

- Ja, det spørger jeg også mig selv om. Jeg tænker, at vi gjorde alt, hvad vi kunne. Vi holdt dem på ét minut. Aldrig for langt væk. Mange hold jagtede, så vi var helt sikkert ikke det eneste hold, der jagtede. Jeg tænker, at alle kørte fuld gas for at hente dem, men de blev i front, så de må have haft fantastiske ben, siger Jasper Philipsen i det officielle interview.

Betyder det også noget, at det er tredje uge?

- Måske. Alle er en smule trætte. Selvfølgelig ville jeg have spurtet i dag. Men ja, de var stærke i front, og det var bare ikke godt nok til at kunne spurte om sejren.

Jasper Philipsen tilføjer, at han ikke for alvor er skuffet med tanke på de fire etapesejre, han allerede har i årets Tour de France.

Se Asgreens flotte sejr fra flere vinkler:

Er det muligt at få videoen fra kommentatorboksen, af kommentatorernes reaktion da Asgreen kører først over målstregen, det lyder til at de har haft en fest?! Fantastisk flot sejr!

Jo, det skal I nok få at se derude. Der er noget på vej, og I kan godt glæde jer ;-).

Jonas Vingegaard efter etapen:

Kom du igennem, som du håbede?

- Det synes jeg egentlig. Jeg synes, at det var fint. Holdet beskyttede mig fint og rigtig godt, og jeg brugte ikke nogle unødvendige kræfter, så det var helt perfekt, siger Vingegaard til TV 2 Sport.

Nogle ord om Asgreens sejr?

- Det er rigtig flot kørt af både ham og resten af udbruddet. Så det er rigtig fortjent. Jeg ved, at Kasper har kæmpet længe for at få sådan en sejr, så det er velfortjent.

Tadej Pogacar efter etapen:

Hvordan har du det i dag?

- Jeg har det lidt bedre, tak.

Om det, der skete i går?

- Det var ikke sådan, det skulle være. I går var en af de hårdeste dage på en cykel for mig, men i dag var det en god dag for mig, siger Pogacar til flere medier, heriblandt TV 2 Sport.

Er der noget i opbygningen til dette – og med uheldet – der kan forklare udfaldene her i Tour de France?

- Jeg havde et ret travlt forår og så en skade, hvilket ikke var ideelt i forhold til at komme fra klassikerne til en skade og så forberede Touren. Alt gik hurtigt. Måske er det dét, og måske havde jeg en dårlig dag. Jeg ved det ikke. Jeg har ikke alle svarene. Jeg træner mere for at blive bedre, siger Pogacar.

Vingegaard holder fast i førertrøjen og forspringet til Pogacar

Jonas Vingegaard kom over målstregen i samme tid som feltet, og han sad lige ved siden af Tadej Pogacar.

Dermed holder danskeren fast i sit forspring på 7'35" til sin nærmeste konkurrent i det samlede klassement.

Mads Pedersen letter på hatten for Asgreen:

Se asgreens sejr her:, michael mørkøv efter etapen:.

- Jeg oplevede egentlig et fuldstændig umuligt udbrud hele dagen, fordi feltet holdt dem (udbruddet, red.) på et minut. Det virkede lidt håbløst.

- Men jeg tror, at på de sidste 50 kilometer kunne vi se, at de begyndte at sprænge i luften, dem der sad og førte. De blev ved med at køre rundt i feltet og spørge efter hjælp. Så var vi klar over, at de var presset. Det er vildt imponerende, at de holder et jagtende felt bag sig på den måde, siger Mørkøv til TV 2 Sport efter etapen.

Etapesejren er Soudal Quick-Steps første i årets Tour de France.

- Den falder på et tørt sted, den sejr til Kasper.

- Vi ved, at Kasper er ufatteligt stærk, og at lade ham sidde i et udbrud, hvor han kan bruge sin topfart, det er noget af det, han er bedst til. Og at han så også har kræfter til sidst til at slå de tre andre, han var afsted med, det er helt fantastisk.

- Han redder deres Tour de France

Nu er Danmark på 28 etapesejre i Tour de France.

Kasper Asgreen vinder foran Eenkhoorn og Abrahamsen. Helt utroligt!

- Asgreen redder Soudal Quick-Steps Tour de France, siger Christian Moberg i kommenteringen.

Asgreen vinder

Kasper Asgreen vinder!

Dansk etapesejr i Tour de France!

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Campenaerts åbner. Asgreen på hjul!

Feltet kommer susende

8"  nu.

Laporte fra Jumbo-Visma er kommet frem, og nu kører rytterne forbi danskerfesten ved to kilometer til mål. Bahrain fører i feltet.

Feltet kommer susende!

Danskere slår ud i feltet

Det begynder at se svært ud for udbruddet. 13" nu.

Nils Politt trækker feltet afsted, og han har Jumbo-Visma lige bag sig. Søren Kragh og Mattias Skjelmose er færdige.

Mads Pedersen sidder godt fremme, og det samme gør Michael Mørkøv!

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PARCOURS 2024

TOTAL :  3492 km

Ce sera le premier Grand Départ depuis l’Italie et le 26e depuis l’étranger. Arrivée à Nice. En raison des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris et , pour la première fois, l’arrivée finale n’aura pas lieu dans la capitale.

Deux contre-la-montre 25 + 34 soit 59 km, dont le second lors de la dernière étape Monaco > Nice. Ce dénouement final n’était plus arrivé depuis 35 ans et le fameux duel Fignon - LeMond en 1989.

• Apennins (Italie), Alpes italiennes et françaises, Massif central et Pyrénées seront les massifs montagneux au programme du Tour en 2024.
• Le nombre de pays visités en 2024 : Italie, Saint-Marin, Monaco et France . Dans l’Hexagone, 7 Régions et 30 départements seront sillonnés.
• Le nombre de points bonus 8, 5 et 2 secondes aux trois premiers coureurs classés, attribués à des endroits stratégiques du parcours (sous réserve d’homologation de l’Union cycliste internationale) mais sans incidence sur le classement par points. Des bonifications de 10, 6 et 4 secondes aux trois premiers coureurs classés seront octroyées aux arrivées des étapes en ligne.

Sur un total de 39, ces sites ou villes-étapes feront leur apparition sur la carte du Tour. Dans l’ordre : Florence, Rimini, Cesenatico, Bologne, Plaisance, Saint-Vulbas, Gevrey-Chambertin, Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, Évaux-les-Bains, Gruissan, Superdévoluy, col de la Couillole.

Le nombre de secteurs de chemins blancs pour un total de 32 km lors de la 9e étape.

Le nombre d’étapes :

• 8 de plaine, 4 accidentées,
• 7 de montagne (avec 4 arrivées en altitude à Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet, Plateau de Beille, Isola 2000, col de la Couillole),
• 2 contre la montre et
• 2 journées de repos.

Le nombre de coureurs au départ du Tour,  répartis en 22 équipes de 8 coureurs.

L’altitude de la cime de la Bonette dans les Alpes,  la plus haute route asphaltée de France, qui sera le toit du Tour 2024.

Le dénivelé positif total  du Tour de France 2024.

Au total 2,3 millions d’euros seront attribués et mis en jeu pour les équipes et les coureurs dont 500 000 € au vainqueur du classement général individuel final.

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