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Although race leader Pogačar took a step closer to a fourth Tour title, the Slovenian star could not catch Arensman. He finished the stage in third place behind Dane Jonas Vingegaard, who just beat Pogačar to the line.
The stage from Albertville to La Plagne was meant to be 129.9 kilometers (80.5 miles) long but was trimmed to 93.1 kilometers (57.7 miles), according to the official Tour website’s stage map on Friday.
Ineos-Grenadiers soigneur David Rozman has left the Tour de France in the wake of media reports linking him to disgraced German doctor Mark Schmidt, the convicted head of an international blood doping ring.
Brent Bookwalter and Tejay Van Garderen analyze Visma’s attempt to push Jonas Vingegaard ahead of Tadej Pogacar that fell flat in the mountains of Tour de France Stage 18 and dive into the white jersey battle.
Stage 18 featured three extremely difficult ascents, including the 26.4-kilometer daunting climb of the Col de La Loze up to the finish. At 2,304 meters of altitude, La Loze is the highest summit in this year’s Tour.
Lizzie Deignan, who was the first British athlete to win a medal on home soil at the 2012 London Olympics, previously had announced that she would call it quits at the end of the season.
Rodriguez crashed on Wednesday and hospital scans confirmed the fracture, his team said in a statement a few hours before the start of Stage 18.
Brent Bookwalter and Tejay Van Garderen look ahead to Stage 18 of the 2025 Tour de France, where Tadej Pogacar will look to avoid a repeat of 2023 Stage 17 and stave off Jonas Vingegaard in a climb-heavy day.
Brent Bookwalter and Tejay Van Garderen examine the crash that happened inside the final kilometer of Tour de France Stage 17 and evaluate how it affects green jersey hopefuls Biniam Girmay and Tim Merlier.
There was no significant change in the overall standings with three-time Tour champion Pogačar maintaining his lead of 4 minutes, 15 seconds over main rival Jonas Vingegaard.
