2018 Tour De France, Stage 1 To Stage 11

The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The Tour began in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île with a flat stage on 7 July, and Stage 11 occurred on 18 July with a mountainous stage to La Rosière. The race finished on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 29 July.

Classification standings

Stage 1

7 July 2018 – Noirmoutier-en-l'Île to Fontenay-le-Comte,

The race departed from Noirmoutier-en-l'Île heading south, following the coast to Les Sables-d'Olonne. The route then turned southeast with an intermediate sprint at La Tranche-sur-Mer. Continuing east, the race passed through Chaillé-les-Marais before the category 4 climb of the ''Côte de Vix'' and a bonification point at Maillezais. The race then turned north to the flat finish at Fontenay-le-Comte.

Several crashes in the final resulted in general classification contenders Chris Froome, Adam Yates and Richie Porte all losing 51 seconds. Meanwhile, Nairo Quintana suffered a puncture and lost over a minute on the general classification.

Stage 2

8 July 2018 – Mouilleron-Saint-Germain,

The stage departed from Mouilleron-Saint-Germain heading east. The riders turned northeast at La Châtaigneraie, west at Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin and then north at Réaumur. The race then headed over the category 4 ''Côte de Pouzauges'' and continued northwest through Les Herbiers to Tiffauges. The race turned west to Montaigu and then southwest through Boufféré and Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne to Palluau. The riders then continued south through Aizenay to an intermediate sprint at Beaulieu-sous-la-Roche and then southeast to Nieul-le-Dolent. The route then turned east to a bonification point at Saint-Florent-des-Bois went ahead of the peloton from the start of the stage, gaining a temporary lead of four and a half minutes, eventually being caught from the finish. Tsgabu Grmay became the first retirement of the Tour, abandoning from the stage finish. Adam Yates recovered from a crash from the finish. Fernando Gaviria, the yellow jersey holder, crashed on a sharp right-hand bend in the last of the stage, allowing Sagan to take the lead.

Stage 3

9 July 2018 – Cholet to Cholet, ( TTT)

For the team time trial, the teams departed from Cholet heading north to Saint-Léger-sous-Cholet. The riders then turned west to the first timecheck at the village of Saint-André-de-la-Marche, in Sèvremoine, and turned south. From La Romagne the route turned east, with the second timecheck at La Séguinière. The teams then headed back to the finish line in Cholet. The route was expected to take each team about 39 minutes.

Stage 4

10 July 2018 – La Baule to Sarzeau,

The riders departed west and then northeast from La Baule, with racing beginning just before Guérande. The race continued northeast to La Chapelle-des-Marais and then east through Pontchâteau to Blain. After heading northeast to Nozay, the race turned north to an intermediate sprint at Derval. The route then turned west, heading through Guémené-Penfao and Redon to the category 4 climb of the ''Côte de Saint-Jean-la-Poterie''. The riders then continued through Allaire, to a bonification point at Limerzel, and turned southwest to Muzillac. The race then headed west to the slight uphill finish at Sarzeau.

From the start of racing, Dimitri Claeys, Anthony Perez, Jérôme Cousin and Guillaume Van Keirsbulck broke away from the peloton, building a temporary lead of approximately eight minutes. At before the finish, a crash caused Rigoberto Urán and Ilnur Zakarin to lose contact with the peloton. Urán managed to chase back to the peloton before the finish, while Zakarin lost nearly a minute on the general classification. The participants in the original breakaway group were all eventually caught by the peloton, within the last , allowing for a sprint finish.

Stage 5

11 July 2018 – Lorient to Quimper,

The riders departed west from Lorient, with racing beginning after passing through Ploemeur. The riders then headed northwest through Moëlan-sur-Mer, Pont-Aven and Trégunc. At Concarneau the route turned north to Saint-Yvi and then northeast to an intermediate sprint at Roudouallec. The route then meandered west over the category 4 climb of the ''Côte de Kaliforn'' and the category 4 ''Côte de Trimen''. After continuing through Châteauneuf-du-Faou to the category 3 ''Côte de la Roche du Feu'', the race headed through Châteaulin and over the category 3 ''Côte de Menez Quelerc'h''. The riders then headed southwest to the category 3 ''Côte de la montagne de Locronan''. Heading southeast, a bonification point occurred at the ''Côte de la chapelle de La Lorette'', before the uphill finish in Quimper.

Stage 6

12 July 2018 – Brest to Mûr-de-Bretagne Guerlédan,

The riders departed from Brest heading north to Bourg-Blanc and then northeast to Loc-Brévalaire. The route turned east at the D28 road, continuing southeast to the category 3 climb of the ''Côte de Ploudiry'' and then south to Sizun. Turning east, the race continued over the category 4 climb of the ''Côte de Roc'h Trévézel'', through Huelgoat, Poullaouen

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