2018 Tour de France: Stage 1 Results
Fernando Gaviria of the Quick Step Floors team grabs his first yellow jersey, winning the 201km opening stage of the 2018 Tour de France from Noirmoutier-en-l’Île to Fontenay-le-Comte.
Fernando Gaviria of the Quick Step Floors team grabs his first yellow jersey, winning the 201km opening stage of the 2018 Tour de France from Noirmoutier-en-l’Île to Fontenay-le-Comte.
Stage 1 of the 2018 Tour de France starts with an opportunity for the sprinters to make their mark and be the first pull on the maillot jaune.
Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) won his second stage dressed in the Maglia Rosa, this time in a solo move at 1400 metres to go on the short uphill finish to Osimo.
Belgian rider Tim Wellens won the fourth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday, the first on Italian soil in this year’s race, while Chris Froome’s hopes of a third straight Grand Tour victory took another hit.
Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors), who was the hot favourite for Stage 2 of the 2018 Giro d’Italia, won an expected bunch gallop in Tel Aviv on the Mediterranean seaside
Italian champion Vincenzo Nibali arrived solo on Via Roma’s finish line after having attacked on Poggio and started the rush into Sanremo only 12 seconds ahead of his pursuers.
Tirreno-Adriatico, known as The Race of the Two Seas has become an important event as riders use the opportunity to find form ahead of Milan-San Remo in mid-March.
Chris Froome was flanked by his Team Sky mates as he crossed the line on the Champs-Elysees, and claimed the famed maillot jaune of the 2017 Tour de France by a margin of 54 seconds
While Stage 17 of the 2017 Tour de France ends with Chris Froome still in the race lead, the climb over the Galibier still shook things up a bit. Here’s today’s news, notes and quotes.
After a day of climbs, Stage 16 of the 2017 Tour de France came down to a sprint finish of the G.C. contenders.