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The Tour de France continues! RTBF.be/sport offers you to follow the 18th stage, which connects Tri-sur-Baise to Pau on 171 kilometers. See you at 13:45 to follow this stage live!
The Tour takes a breath in the Pyrenean foothills. The hard day of Portet Wednesday saw the British Geraint Thomas (Sky) strengthen his yellow jersey while his teammate and compatriot, quadruple winner of the Tour, Chris Froome was put in trouble. Thursday, the men of the plain will find less hostile terrain through the vineyards of Madiran (km 56).
The course of 171 kilometers has some asperities: two coast of fourth category, the first in Madiran, the second to the entrance of the last 20 kilometers. But the sprinters have the right to hope to fight for victory.
The finish is judged in Pau, in the city center (Place de Verdun), at the end of a straight line of 550 meters.
Stop traditional Grande Loop, to be located at a strategic location at the foot of the Pyrenees and have the necessary hotel infrastructure, Pau welcomes the race for the 70th time. Only Bordeaux (80 times) has received the Tour more often, outside of Paris, which has always been the finish city.
Pierrick Fédrigo (2010, 2012) and Marcel Kittel of Germany (2017) are the last winners in the city of the good king Henri IV, today strong of 77.000 inhabitants
Departure from Trie-sur-Baïse at 13:55 (real departure at 14:00), arrival around 17:48 (forecast at 45 km / h average).
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