Tour de France (20th stage, clm): the battle begins, Kwiatkowski always ahead

16h36: Zakarin starts strong, not Bardet

Ilnur Zakarin is a bomb on the time trial! The Russian is leading the first intermediary, 8 seconds ahead of Yates and 15 ahead of Kwiatkowski. Romain Bardet is more cautious and has already conceded 29 seconds.

16h29: Thomas leaves, all riders have started

The yellow jersey Geraint Thomas is the last to leave the launching pad. The battle begins!

16h27: the world champion of the specialty has started

Tom Dumoulin will try to preserve his second place, and even try to tickle the yellow jersey Geraint Thomas.

4:24 pm: Froome and Roglic for the podium

The quadruple winner of the Great Loop Christopher Froome started, followed by Primoz Roglic. The challenge is the podium. Benefit to the Slovenian, after his victory Friday in Laruns

16h20: Bardet, Landa and Kruijswijk on the road

Respectively seventh, sixth and fifth of the general, the three riders will explain for a place in the top 5

16h17: Martin super combative of the Tour

Winner at Mûr-de-Bretagne, Dan Martin (UAE Emirates) was elected super combative of the Tour de France 2018 by the jury of the price of fighting spirit.

] 16h12: the top 10 in action

His first member, Ilnur Zakarin (Katusha-Alpecin), started his time, before the other favorites.

] 16h11: Julian Alaphilippe freewheeling

The polka dot jersey of the Tour de France 2018 Julian Alaphilippe n not forced during the time trial. It ends very far from Kwiatkowski more than 3 minutes, but the essential is done: do not fall to get on the podium on the Champs-Elysees.

16h05: Latour for the white jersey

13th overall, Pierre Latour (AG2R La Mondiale) started. His goal: to preserve his white jersey. He is 5 minutes ahead of his first competitor, Egan Bernal (Sky).

4:04 pm: Yates Cracks

Adam Yates, leading after the first score, lost time on Kwiatkowski. The Briton is currently 13 seconds behind the Pole.

15h54: the last Time Trial on the Tour for Chavanel

For his last Tour de France, Sylvain Chavanel (Direct-Energie) took thirteenth place in the time trial, 1'42 "by Kwiatkowski

15h52: Adam Yates first after 13 kilometers

Can the British Adam Yates be the sensation of the day? The rider Michelton-Scott is in any case started well and had the best time in the first intermediary, three seconds faster than Castroviejo and Hepburn

15h33: Kwiatkowski takes the lead again!

Soren Kragh Andersen will not stay long in the lead: Michal Kwiatkowski improves one second the best time in 41'42 ". The Polish will give valuable advice to Christopher Froome and Geraint Thomas

15h32: Kragh Andersen new leader

Soren Kragh Andersen finished very strong The Dane of Sunweb took the first place in the chrono, 31 seconds ahead of Marc Soler

3:21 pm: Kwiatkowski at the same time as Andersen

Michal Kwiatkowski ( Sky) is currently producing a very correct time trial. The Pole rolls at the same pace as Soren Kragh Andersen after the second score.

15h15: Kragh Andersen tops second intermediate

Dane Soren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb) posted the best provisional time after the second run, 29'27 ", 2 seconds ahead of Hepburn, who could dethrone Marc Soler.

15h11: Soler pbades Hepburn on the wire!

Michael Hepburn is beaten! Marc Soler (Movistar), 17 seconds late in the second run, made a superb finish to pbad the Australian by five small hundredths He is the new leader of the stage.

3 pm: more than half of the riders finished

145 riders were at the start of the time, 77 finished the stage. Here is the provisional clbadification before the pbadage of the best ranked:
1. Michael Hepburn (AUS / Michelton-Scott) in 42'15 "
2. Jonathan Castroviejo (ESP / SKY) at 8"
3. Nils Politt (ALL / Katusha-Alpecin) at 29 "
4. Chad Haga (USA / Sunweb) at 34"
5. Nikias Arndt (ALL / Sunweb) at 38 "
6. Luke Durbridge (AUS / Michelton-Scott) at 1'13"
7. Silvan Dillier (SUI / AG2R La Mondiale) at 1'28 "
8. Gregor Mühlberger (AUT / Bora-Hangrohe) at 1'36"
9. Marcus Burghardt (ALL / Bora-Hansgrohe) at 1'42 "
10. Michael Schär (SUI / BMC) at 1'50"

14h39: Castroviejo on the heels of Hepburn

Spanish Champion time trial, Jonathan Castroviejo threatens the first place of Michael Hepburn. The Sky racer is only 10 seconds behind the Australian after the second intermediate

2:26 pm: Offredo rolled without brake

37th time trial in 47'14 ", Yoann Offredo (Wanty – Gobert Group) admitted on arrival that he had "lost his brakes after 20 kilometers." "I did not go down very quickly, braking with the footrests. I told people to move away. It was folkloric, "reacted the French rider.

14h15: Peter Sagan on the road to Espelette

The Slovak green jersey has started from Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle With a bandage on his left arm, struggling yesterday on the last stage of the Pyrenees, he must make a final effort before Paris.

14h05: who will be the most combative of the 2018 Tour?

The vote to designate the Super Combat of the Great Loop 2018 began this Eight riders are in the running: Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), Dan Martin (UAE Emira tes), Damien Gaudin (Direct-Energy), Lawson Craddock (EF-Drapac), Sylvain Chavanel (Direct-Energy), Warren Barguil (Fortunéo-Samsic) and Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors). You can participate by going to the Twitter account @PriceAntargaz. Votes closed at 4 pm

] 13:55: Dumoulin's favorite

Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb), second overall, could take a lot of time in the yellow jersey Geraint Thomas (Sky) on the 31 kilometers of this time, and why not threaten him. To show the regularity of the Dutch in this exercise, just look at all of his time trial for two years: Dumoulin has always finished on the podium over distances of more than 15 kilometers. He notably beat Froome 1'21 '' at Worlds 2017 (31 km) and 22 '' at Giro 2018 (22.4 km).

13h32: Hepburn provisional leader

After the pbadage of 30 runners , Michelton-Scott's Australian Michael Hepburn has the best provisional time in 42'15 ", more than a minute ahead of team-mate Luke Durbridge, a good time that should allow him to stay at the head at the right time

12:45 pm: The Pinodieta Pbad, a scarecrow of the watch

Located 4 kilometers from the finish, the Pinodieta pbad should hurt the most tired runners. Very short and very steep (900 meters at 10.2% average, including a ramp more than 20%), this climb will allow the sturdiest to gain valuable time.

12h33: Démare and Laporte, the first two French to start

The sprinter of the Groupama-FDJ team Arnaud Démare, winner in Pau, started his time, followed in the wake of Christophe Laporte (Cofidis). These are the first two tricolors on the bridge.

12:01: Let's go for Lawson Craddock

While the French sprinter Arnaud Démare will start from Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle At 12:06, the first rider in this time trial, the American Lawson Craddock (EF Drappac-Cannondale), and his number 13 returned upside down since he dropped and offered "a fracture line on the scapula

11:55 am: rain to complicate the task

Not insignificant parameter in this 20th stage, already tricky by its course, a heavy rain falls this Saturday on the layout of the time trial and could cause falls in case of excessive speed in turns or on white lines.

11:50 am: the last undulating chronograph for Tom Dumoulin

To find the trace of a brittle time trial like the one proposed Saturday in the Basque Country, we must go back to 2016, during the 13th step. On the hilly course that led to the Cave of Pont-d'Arc, in Ardèche, with a strong side wind, it was the powerful Papillon of Maastricht, Tom Dumoulin, who had atomized the competition on 37.5 km, relegating Christopher Froome, his dolphin, at 1'03 ''. 7th in the chrono, Geraint Thomas conceded 2 '. Romain Bardet had lost him 3'52 '' on the leader of the Sunweb formation, then at Giant-Alpecin

11h35: the point on the general clbadification and the stakes

While the hierarchies will be frozen from here Paris in the secondary rankings of the best sprinter and the best climber, who respectively devote Peter Sagan (Bora) and Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe (Quick Step), the only stakes of this against the clock concern the ranking of the best young and the general. And still … In the under 25 years, the Frenchman Pierre Latour is an excellent rider, since he is champion of France of the specialty, and will advance on the starting line with nearly 6 'in advance on the Colombian climber Egan Bernal, intrinsically the best young, but responsible for working for his leaders of the Sky.

In general, Geraint Thomas, also excellent in this exercise, should be able to keep his yellow jersey with more than 2 'ahead of Tom Dumoulin. But they will be three formidable time riders to fight for two places on the podium: the Dutch dolphin of Thomas, Primoz Roglic, winner yesterday of the 19th stage, and Christopher Froome, are indeed in 32 seconds.

top 10 of the general clbadification

1. Geraint Thomas (GBR / Sky) 79: 49: 31
2. Tom Dumoulin (NED / SUN) at 2:05 am
3. Primoz Roglic (SLO / LNL) 2:24.
4. Christopher Froome (GBR / SKY) 2:37.
5. Steven Kruijswijk (NED / LNL) 4:37.
6. Mikel Landa (ESP / MOV) 4:40.
7. Romain Bardet (FRA / ALM) 5:15.
8. Daniel Martin (IRL / UAE) 6:39.
9. Nairo Quintana (COL / MOV) 10:26.
10. Ilnur Zakarin (RUS / KAT) 11:49.

11h30: The brave Lawson Craddock will launch hostilities

The "Red Lantern" of the Tour, l American Lawson Craddock, who runs despite a fracture line on the shoulder blade since the first leg, will be the first rider to start Saturday at 12 o'clock. The first 39 riders will start at 90 second intervals (until Gerrans) and the following will be separated by a gap of two minutes. Welshman Geraint Thomas, who wears the yellow jersey, will start at 4.29 pm

The order of starts

12h00: Craddock, Guarnieri, Thomson, De Buyst, Démare, Jansen, Roosen, Ferrari, Richeze, Sinkeldam, Gaudin, Troia, Phinney, Pöstlberger, Dupont, Scully, Rowe, Claeys, The Gac, Marcato, Haussler, Bodnar, Laporte, Hepburn, Durbridge, Bauer, Grellier, Van Keirlsbuck, Turgis, Terpstra, Kristoff, Vanmarcke, Oss, Gogl, Degenkolb, R. Janse van Rensburg, Hayman, Colbrelli, Gerrans

12:59: Marczynski, Sutherland, Hardy, Bennati, Simon, Koren, Clarke, Vachon, Pichon, Smith, Ledanois, Burghardt, Pasqualon, Poljanski, Cousin, Theuns, Offredo, Boudat, Schär, Politt, Gesbert, Bobadon Hagen, Perez, Skujins, Dillier, Lampaert, Martens, Boswell, Kort, Erviti, Vermote

14h01: Ludvigsson, Mühlberger, Sicard, Haga, Castroviejo, Sagan, Arndt, Atapuma, Nielsen, Naesen, Gendt, Soler, Stuyven, Minnaard, Kochetkov, Pellizotti, Poels, Slagter, Degand, Fraile, Hansen, Kung, Kragh Andersen, Frank, Ten Dam, Kwiatkowski, Amador, Jes. Herrada, Navarro, Impey

15h01: Edet, Valgren, Bouet, Moinard, Vichot, Chavanel, Molard, Durasek, Martinez, Tolhoek, Bernard, Gaudu, Alaphilippe, Van Garderen, Gesink, A. Yates , Calmejane, Van Avermaet, Rolland, Mollema, Geschke, G. Izagirre, Nieve, I. Izagirre, Caruso, G. Martin, Majka, Pozzovivo, Barguil, Kangert

16h01: Bernal, Valverde, Latour, Fuglsang, Jungels, Zakarin, Quintana, D. Martin, Bardet, Landa, Kruijswijk, Froome

16h25: Roglic

16h27: T. Dumoulin

16h29 : Thomas

11h25: a Basque chrono to decide between

Welcome to this direct commentary on the 20th and penultimate stage of the 2018 Tour which will be held importance to determine the Top 10 of the general clbadification, at the end of a time trial in the Basque Country, between Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle and Espelette, on a very rough course 31 km, alternating steep climbs and very technical descents. "There is only one individual time on the Tour. But it is gratiné! ", Promised the director of the Tour, Thierry Gouvenou.