VIDEO REPLAY. Millau> Carcassonne: relive the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2018

"Dominating the Montagne Noire, the Pic de Nore, which will appear on the Tour map, offers an exceptional panorama of the departments of Aude and Tarn, which will be the highest point (1,205 m) of a stage for fighters and for the green jersey candidates able to take their game in the mountains "explained Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France.

Profile of the stage

For this 15th stage, the runners left at 1:20 pm for 181.5 km between Millau and Carcbadonne, with several pbadages of pbades including that of Sié, culminating in 928 m and that of Nore, at 1205 m, reached after 12 km climb to 6.3% average slope. After that, there was still 41.5 kilometers to dive on Carcbadonne and make the difference. Magnus Cort Nielsen took his first victory on the Tour after a breakaway in a small sprint. Astana rider leads Ion Izagirre and Bauke Mollema and gives his team a second consecutive victory.

"Romain Bardet suffered a pretty fright in the descent of the Pic de Nore: while the AG2R were trying to get back to the front the peloton, the French took too wide in a pin and had to play the balancing act not to fall, it remains to 3'21 of Geraint Thomas before the Pyrenees "explain our colleagues of L'Equipe.

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