LIVE TOUR Gesink impresses – Telegraaf.nl

LIVE TOUR A day with seven ramps between Gap to Saint-Jean-de-Marienne. The Col de la Morte and the Col du Glandon are two big executioners, but the real fireworks can be expected on the impressive Lacets the Montvernier, a 3 km long wall with 18 hairpin bends. Chris Froome twittered all in awe of this climb

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The peloton is underway in the 18th stage Photo:. AFP

The profile of the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France Photo:. ANP

Follow the 18th stage of the Tour de France live

Because. the finish line about 10 kilometers after the summit has drawn good decliners as Vincenzo Nibali can put the rest in the immersion under pressure.

Whether there is now a leading group before she runs out or not, the favorites for the final victory today will make a spectacle of it. With two or more ‘matches’ in one stage, the TV viewers already ahead of the winner.

The first part of the ride leads along the Route Napoléon, two hundred years after the French ruler returned along that road from exile on Elba. The top of the hardest climb, the Col du Glandon, is a small 40 kilometers before the finish. After that follows a spectacular scoop in the Tour; the climb up the Lacets the Montvernier.

Follow the 18th stage of the Tour de France live, where a huge leading group drove to the peloton. Among the 29 riders Stef Clement and Andrew Talansky and Romain Bardet threatening Bauke Mollema. On the climb of the Col du Glandon clapped the leaders apart.

In the group of favorites Robert Gesink chose the attack. He was Alberto Contador with, but was overtaken

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