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Tour de France 2022
Stage 18
21 July 2022
Lourdes -Hautacam
143,5 km
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Jonas Vingegaard wins the stage
3,5 km
Jonas Vingegaard is on his solo ride to stage victory and to Tour de France victory
4,4 km
Pogacar dropped
5 km to go
Wout van Aert, Vingegaard and Pogacar at the front
7 km to go
the trio Kuss, Vingegaard and Pogacar getting closer to the duo at the front
half minute
9 km to go
Wout van Aert accelerates and Pinot is dropped. Martinez is still there.
14 km to go
a smaller group together again before the start of Hautacam, Vingegaard has Benoot and Kuss
on the front Pinot, Wout van Aert and Martinez together
Good omen for Pinot,that E. Macron visits the race today.
Hautacam:
27 km
Oh shit. Pogacar is down. He is back on his bike immediatelly.
Vingegaard is waiting for him. They’ re together again.
30 km to go
Pinot is dropped from the other two, mo wonder, he is not particularly skilled descender.
35km to go
another acceleration by Pogacar
Vingegaard is just glued on his back wheel.
They’re leaving behind Thomas and even Meintjes behind.
Pogacar an Vingegaard together without helpers. But the group at the front of the race has only one and a half minute advantage.
36 km to go
Geraint Thomas launches his own attack.
Reminder: it’s only the penultimate climb and the last one will be the mighty Hautacam. Yet, there is something report on every km. How many big twist we will witness on the last ascent?
37 km to go
A trio at the front of the the race: WvA, Pinot and D. Martinez
Yellow jersey group comes together (7-8 riders, including 2 Ineos guys) , but Pogacar attacks again. Vingegaard responds. Kuss is with him.
39 km to go
Pogacar attacks!
Wout van Aert still in the breakaway group of the day at the front of the race
Current climb
64 km to go
Giulio Ciccone takes the Aubisque, dangerously close to Geschke in the mountain points classification (Geschke most likely wont collect mountain points today.
Meanwhile, Meintjes virtually jumped up in the general classification to the 4th position, which means, some teams have to re-think their strategies.
70 km to go
Geschke is riding now behind the peloton, today is rather about surviving for him and not collecting mountain points.
While there is still a big group at the front
Meintjes and Dombrowski are in the nomansland.
Peloton is less than 3 minutes behind the front group.
84 km to go
Wout van Aert took the maximum points at the intermediate sprint. Now the real mountain stage begins.
88 km to go
There is a very big (more than 30 cyclists) breakaway with s gap of 22mp. Meanwhile in the peloton Cofidis is setting theoa e, they’riding for Simon Geschke’oolka dot , of course, and they’re are hoping that the breakaway group will reduced after the intermediate sprint.
127 km to go
Wout van Aert had a solo ride for several km, later tried it again with six other riders. Now gruppo completto!
143,2 km
Who is in the break from the start?
Wout van Aert, of course. Nelson Powless goes with him.
General classification before the stage >>
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