Tour de France 2024: Victory Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) wins stage 18 from three-rider breakaway(Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
Stage winner Victor Campenaerts of Lotto Dstny reacts after the dash(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Mattéo Vercher of TotalEnergies crosses the end line in second place(Picture credit score: Tim de Waele/Getty Photographs)
Victor Campenaerts, Mattéo Vercher and Michal Kwiatkowski compete within the breakaway and head to the end (Picture credit score: Dario BelingheriGetty Photographs)
Victor Campenaerts of Lotto Dstny trails Michal Kwiatkowski of Ineso Grenadiers within the breakaway, together with Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) who’s out of the body, with below 35km to go(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Tobias Halland Johannessen of Uno-X Mobility will get again into the race after falling in a nook on a descent with 35km to go (Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Michal Kwiatkowski of Ineos Grenadiers on a descent with the principle group earlier than he took off with two others for the breakaway(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
A common view of the entrance group not slowing to benefit from the surroundings on stage 18(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Ben Healy of EF Training-EasyPost shook up the lead group with an acceleration with 65.5km to go, and some riders tagged alongside together with Jai Hindley of Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Bart Lemmen of Visma-Lease a Bike, Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers and Krists Neilands of Israel-Premier Tech(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
The massive lead group of 36 riders passes throughout a valley on a sizzling day, temperatures hovering over 36C(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Stage 17 winner Richard Carapaz (EF Training-EasyPost) rides on the entrance of the lead group, trailed by by teammate Sean Quinn and Jai Hindley of Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Michael Matthews of Jayco-AlUla rides subsequent to World Champion Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck within the entrance group of 36 riders(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogacar carrying the general chief’s yellow jersey rides within the peloton(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar of UAE Crew Emirates, within the Yellow Chief Jersey, on the rolling roads from Hole into the Alps(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Crew Visma – Lease a Bike’s Wout van Aertat the entrance of the lead group between Hole and Barcelonnette within the French Alps(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates), within the total chief’s yellow jersey, rides in peloton on the undulating terrain of stage 18 and on the descent of the Col du Festre (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
The peloton enjoys a sunny day of undulating terrain within the Alps, with 179.5 km between Hole and Barcelonnette(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
The peloton on stage 18 of the 2024 Tour de France(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Quick and livid racing on stage 18(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Geraint Thomas and Victor Campenaerts lead the massive breakaway group on stage 18(Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Biniam Girmay (left) within the inexperienced dash jersey talks firstly to Jonas Vingegaard within the polka-dot mountain jersey (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Tadej Pogačar of UAE Crew Emirates seems to be relaxed firstly in Hole by enjoying a sport previous to the beginning(Picture credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Photographs)
Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) gained stage 18 of the Tour de France from Hole to Barcelonnette after one other battle for the breakaway and one other intense battle for the stage victory.
The Belgian rider bought away with Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) and Tour debutant Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) within the last 35km of the stage.
They labored properly collectively to carry off the chasers after which sprinted for the stage victory. Kwiatkowski was pressured to guide out the dash and Campenaerts kicked laborious to hit the entrance and win. Vercher was second, with Kwiatkowski third.
After turning into a father just some weeks, Campenaerts was in tears as he savoured his first-ever Tour stage victory.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates) and the opposite GC contenders let the break go clear early within the stage, preferring to avoid wasting their power for the ultimate mountain stage of this yr’s Tour de France that start on Friday.
