Britain’s Chris Froome is only three days away of taking another possible victory of this year’s Tour de France. Froome has the highest chances to take the fourth Tour victory being able to keep the yellow jersey on during most of the Tour.
These results mean only one thing: Froome is now looking more than ever to set his third successive Tour de France and fourth in total, victory. This year’s victory, if he gets it, puts Froome just one win off Merckx, Anquetil, Indurain and Hinault.
Another big day ticked off – Stage 18 ✅ #TDF #TDF2017 #ColdIzoard
? @yorick_32 pic.twitter.com/6xbtnEWIye— Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) July 20, 2017
Today’s stage 18 was won by French’s Warren Barguil while Froome took fourth place being unable to surpass Romain Bardet who took the third one. Bardet is now almost 23 seconds adrift of Froome taking the second place in the overall classification so far.
While Barguil will probably finish the race as the ultimate king of the Mountains, Simon Yates is clearly still leading the young rider classification being only three stages away until the end of the Tour.
One last mountain stage done and still no significant gaps in the Yellow Jersey fight ! Here is the full summary of stage 18! #TDF2017 pic.twitter.com/7BPb6BF6GW
— Le Tour de France (@LeTour) July 20, 2017
Stage 18 results:
Warren Barguil (Fra/Team Sunweb): 4hrs 40mins 33secs
Darwin Atapuma (Col/Team UAE Emirates): +20secs
Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R La Mondiale) Same time
Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky)
Rigoberto Uran (Col/Cannondale-Drapac): +22secs
Mikel Landa (Spa/Team Sky): +32secs
Louis Meintjes (SA/Team UAE Emirates): +37secs
Dan Martin (Ire/Quick-Step Floors): +39secs
Simon Yates (GB/Orica-Scott): +59secs
Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek-Segafredo): +1min 09secs
General classification:
Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) 78hrs 08mins 19secs
Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R La Mondiale) +23secs
Rigoberto Uran (Col/Cannondale-Drapac) +29secs
Mikel Landa (Spa/Team Sky) +1min 36secs
Fabio Aru (Ita/Astana) +1min 55secs
Dan Martin (Ire/Quick-Step Floors) 2mins 56secs
Simon Yates (GB/Orica-Scott) 4mins 46secs
Louis Meintjes (SA/Team UAE Emirates) +6mins 52secs
Warren Barguil (Fra/Team Sunweb) +8mins 22secs
Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek-Segafredo) +8mins 34secs
