A stage-by-stage guide to the winners of the 2018 Tour.With Chris Froome officially in the running and a host of Geraint Thomas won the 2018 Tour de France on Sunday, finishing safely in the peloton at the end of Stage 21. The current podium — Geraint Thomas, Chris Froome, and Tom Dumoulin — followed Roglic, finishing together. His Sky teammate Chris Froome, who sits in second overall, also rode strongly.Team Sky is looking its usual dominant self. Stage 12 - Geraint Thomas
Related Video: Lawson Craddock Rides on After Crash in Stage 1 for an Awesome Cause Dumoulin moved into second place, 1 min 59 s off the lead.
Stage 4 - Greg Van Avermaet Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) - 143 points7. With so many sprinters out of the race already, those left were motivated for the finish and directed their teams to help chase the day’s breakaway, giving Sky a much-needed day off.Over three days in the Alps, the race saw some of its best sprinters drop out. Sagan, who won three stages, was placed first in the The 2018 edition of the Tour de France consisted of 22 Some of the other riders considered as contenders for the general classification were There were 21 stages in the race, covering a total distance of 3,351 km (2,082 mi), the shortest of the 21st century up to that point.Stage one's bunch sprint was won by Fernando Gaviria, with Peter Sagan coming in second place and Marcel Kittel in third. The teammates now sit first- and second-place overall, making the 2018 Tour Sky’s race to lose.Greg Van Avermaet valiantly defended his yellow jersey on the first of three days in the Alps, keeping his spot as the overall leader yet again. The Dutchman avoided crashes during the first three road stages, and his team finished fifth in Stage 3’s team trial. Froome was the day's biggest loser. FILE - In this July 29, 2018 file photo, Tour de France winner Britain's Geraint Thomas, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, and Britain's Chris Froome, right, cross the finish line of the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 116 kilometers (72.1 miles) with start in Houilles and finish on Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) - 5h 13’ 22”Much later, the yellow jersey contenders duked it out.
After some serious work early in the stage to control the gap to a 32-rider breakaway, Sky finally backed off, allowing the leaders an astonishing 19-minute advantage at the base of the final climb.
After a flat stage on Thursday, he faces one last day in the mountains (Friday) and an individual time trial (Saturday). Does Tom Dumoulin have the legs to defeat both of them? Stage 20 - Geraint Thomas Stage 1 - Fernando Gaviria Weather: not hot and with a good chance of rain in the afternoon, a top temperature of 27°C in Nice.A light onshore sea breeze means a slight headwind on the Var valley run back to the finish, to advantage the bunch.
TV: tune in to La Course first for live coverage from 10am-12.30pm CEST and then the Tour de France starts at 2pm with the finish forecast for 6.00pm Euro time. Gaviria took the yellow and green jerseys as the leader of the general and points classifications respectively. Team Sky controlled Stage 15 from start to finish, protecting Thomas and Froome at the front of the bunch while letting a large breakaway filled with out-of-contention riders escape. Saturday’s 31K individual time trial is his final test, but given his track record in previous Grand Tours he should perform well enough to defend his lead. However, none of these riders pose a threat to Van Avermaet’s place atop the General Classification.Van Avermaet actually extended his lead today, thanks to the 3-second time bonus he scored by winning a Bonus Sprint in Nonvilliers-Grandhoux. 1. The next two stages are tough, with lots of climbing on tap as the race heads through the heart of Brittany. He still leads the Tour by 1:39 over teammate Chris Froome and 1:50 over Sunweb’s Tom Dumoulin. Stage 7 - Greg Van Avermaet Tomorrow’s finish really suits Gilbert, making him a serious threat to Van Avermaet’s spell in yellow.It’s still a little early, but when it comes to the Tour’s Points Classification, Sagan looks on track to win a record-tying sixth Greg Van Avermaet finished safely in the bunch at the end of Stage 4, meaning he’ll spend another day in the yellow jersey. His future looks bright and, as long as he stays with Sky, so does the team’s.Geraint Thomas remained the overall leader after fending off attacks from all of his rivals at the end of Stage 19, the Tour’s final day in the mountains. Fernando Gaviria won his second stage of the Tour, but even with the 10-second time bonus, the Colombian could not overtake Van Avermaet in the General Classification. Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors) - 170 points1. But the competition hasn’t give up yet, particularly Dumoulin and AG2R’s Romain Bardet, the only riders who launched serious attacks against the Sky duo on Stage 12.
On the final climb, first Thomas then Froome rode away from the GC group, with Thomas winning the stage and Froome finishing third.
Récapitulatif et résultats du Tour de France 2018: Étape 19 Froome a battu le podium à Laruns. At … It won two stages with Thomas, put riders in first and third overall, and has one of the sport’s most promising young talents on hand in Egan Bernal. 1. Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) - 4h 25’ 01”Young Colombian star Fernando Gaviria won a bunch sprint over Peter Sagan, but the big story will be the crashes that took place in the final kilometers, taking out several general classification contenders.