Today at the Tour: Top 10 most significant moments of the Tour de France 2018

After 21 stages and 3,351 kilometers, the Tour de France 2018 is over, with 145 of the 176 starts of the race ending Sunday in Paris.

For the sixth time in seven years Team Sky won the race, and now A new champion in Welsh Geraint Thomas

The 105th edition of the Tour de France saw revolutionary maneuvers by Fernando Gaviria of Quick-Step, who won two stages and wore yellow for the first time in his career, as well as his team-mate Julian Alaphilippe, who won in the Alps and again in the Pyrenees, taking the polka-dot jersey as the king of the mountains.

Alaphilippe gave much to the host nation to celebrate, as did Perre Latour (Ag2r La Mondiale), winner of the Best Young Riders Competition and Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ), winner of the 18th stage at Pau

For the sixth time in seven years, Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) wore the green jersey in Paris; This time, he won three stages before a high-speed crash nearly finished his lap. Covered with bandages, the world champion finished the race heroically, sprinted for eighth place on the Champs-Élysées and set a new record for the number of days that every rider wore a Tour clbadification jersey, at 103. [19659002] EF Education First-Drapac's Lawson Craddock crushes in the first feeding zone and fractures the shoulder blade; 22 days later, Norway's Alexander Kristoff (United Arab Emirates) ran the sprint on the Champs-Elysees.

En route, nearly 90 hours of racing and 26 mountain pbades, there were moments of celebration.

Below my selection for the 10 most significant moments of the race, ranked in the reverse order, with the last most significant moment.

Step 21: Craddock Arrives in Paris

Bib number 13 The American Lawson Craddock, who fell into the refueling zone during the first stage, was injured prematurely when he was injured. a bottle of water tore off his front wheel and broke the scapula. His involvement was in doubt, and even after he had spent the first week, the EF Education First-Drapac pilot faced a discordant race across the pavement at the 9th stage before he could arrive at the first day of rest. Craddock spent nearly three full weeks in France at the back of the pack struggling to cope with the pain. He burst into tears in front of the camera at least twice – speaking to the press after receiving his x-rays at Fontenay-le-Comte after step 1, and again after the time trial of the l-39 Step 20, in that he would finish the Tour. Craddock turned his trip across France into an opportunity to raise money for the Alkek Vélodrome damaged at Hurricane Houston, where his racing career began, giving $ 100 for each step that he finished and asking the fans to do the same. At the time of printing, he had raised nearly $ 200,000. Craddock's history of adversity and perseverance has attracted the attention of racing fans around the world, and it has marked history – Craddock is the first American to be the red lantern of the Tour, he is also the first to be last overall. From the first to the last stage

Stage 16: Gilbert crushes, comes out of the ravine and finishes the stage

The dramatic crash of Philippe Gilbert on stage 16 was not significant for the General story of the Tour de France, but it was certainly significant for what it could have been. as well as symbolic of the spirit of the Tour – pushing the pain to reach the finish line. On the Portet Pbad of Aspet – the same descent where Fabio Casartelli crashed and lost his life in 1995 – Gilbert was coming down alone to the front of the race when he came out hot on a left turn, braked his brakes and hit a rock face, returning to the side and into a ravine. For a few moments, Gilbert's condition was unknown, and for many, it was difficult to get rid of Casartelli's thoughts. Gilbert was not seriously injured, however, and he was quickly helped out of the ravine and back on that bike. He climbed two other mountains and finished the race 30 minutes behind his teammate of the Quick-Step Floors series, Julian Alaphilippe, and was awarded the Best Fighter of the Day award while wearing a sock impregnated with blood. . Gilbert needed help getting down the steps of the podium, and the following x-rays revealed that he had broken the patella in the fall

Step 6: Mechanical penalty of Dumoulin

At 6km from the 6th stage, Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) finishes on the steep Mûr-de-Bretagne and runs into Romain Bardet (Ag2r La Mondiale), damaging his front wheel. The champion of the Giro d'Italia 2017 took a front wheel of his teammate Simon Geschke, and was then stimulated by several teammates. Dumoulin finished 53 seconds from the end and also received a 20-second penalty for an extension of his draft behind his team vehicle. He finished the Round 1:51 behind Geraint Thomas. This deficit, even before the race hit the mountains, changed the way Dumoulin ran against Thomas, forcing the Dutchman to attack. And because Thomas was always able to follow, these attacks were both a wasted and demoralizing effort. It is impossible to know how the race could have proceeded if Dumoulin had not had the mechanical incident, but after the time trial of stage 20, he suggested that the race should have proceeded if Dumoulin had not had the mechanical incident, but after the time trial of stage 20, he suggested that it did not change the outcome of the general clbadification

. was different for Thomas, because he would have attacked me, "said Dumoulin." He held back on certain milestones because he was rather safe. He played a safe game in the mountains. If I had been closer without the lost time to Mur-de-Bretagne, he would have taken more time on me in the mountains because he was definitely stronger. Thomas has been the strongest in the past three weeks, and he has shown that every day, wasting time on Mûr-de-Bretagne would not have changed the outcome. I would have been second too.

Step 17: Sagan crushes, the green jersey is threatened