the runners to storm the queen stage of this Great Loop

For its third and final day in the Alps, the Tour de France is tackling a myth of its history, the Alpe d'Huez. Longer than yesterday, this stage of 175.5 km reserves two pbades out of categories, before attacking the 21 laces of Alpe d'Huez, which will lead the best climbers to the finish. With a goal for the riders, dislodge the Sky from the head of the Tour de France.

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Thursday 19 July
                

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The profi of the 12th stage

Tour de France 2018. The deciphering of the 12th stage: the queen stage of the Alps Ouest-France.fr The Tour de France will know its most beautiful alpine stage, this Thursday between Bourg-Saint-Maurice and L'Alpe d'Huez. It will be the third mountain stage, with three climbs clbadified out of category. Decryption by Charly Mottet, former pro runner, triple winner including Dauphine, three stages of the Tour, and who knows very well the Alps.

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Today is clearly the queen stage of this Tour de France! On the menu, three out-of-category pbades: Madelaine, Croix de Fer and Alpe d'Huez.

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Hello everyone! And welcome to Ouest-france.fr to follow with us this 12th stage of the Tour de France.

After Wiggins in 2012, Froome in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017, it is the Tour of Geraint Thomas in 2018. The team Sky seems to have chosen the Welsh to bring the yellow jersey on Champs Elysees. The tactic is understandable, given the accusations and jeers that Chris Froome suffered on the roads of the Tour, after having carried out an abnormal control of salbutamol during the Vuelta .

Yesterday in La Rosière, Geraint Thomas and Christopher Froome went out on their own to release the Nibali, Roglic, Dumoulin and Quintana to secure the yellow jersey for their team. With its two British leading the general, Sky is already ideally placed in this Tour de France . The twelfth stage is an opportunity for a climber of the top 10 to stand out and can be stealing the yellow jersey Sky, time to reach the Pyrenees, at least.

What are the hopes of seeing the Sky being jostled today? At the last arrival at Alpe d'Huez in 2015, it was the Frenchman Thibaut Pinot who won the stage . Is the feat reputable for French runners?