Tour de France 2024: Victory Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) wins stage 18 from three-rider breakaway(Image credit score rating: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
Stage winner Victor Campenaerts of Lotto Dstny reacts after the sprint(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Mattéo Vercher of TotalEnergies crosses the tip line in second place(Image credit score rating: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
Victor Campenaerts, Mattéo Vercher and Michal Kwiatkowski compete inside the breakaway and head to the tip (Image credit score rating: Dario BelingheriGetty Images)
Victor Campenaerts of Lotto Dstny trails Michal Kwiatkowski of Ineso Grenadiers inside the breakaway, along with Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) who’s out of the physique, with beneath 35km to go(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Tobias Halland Johannessen of Uno-X Mobility will get once more into the race after falling in a nook on a descent with 35km to go (Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Michal Kwiatkowski of Ineos Grenadiers on a descent with the precept group sooner than he took off with two others for the breakaway(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
A typical view of the doorway group not slowing to learn from the environment on stage 18(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Ben Healy of EF Coaching-EasyPost shook up the lead group with an acceleration with 65.5km to go, and a few riders tagged alongside along with Jai Hindley of Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Bart Lemmen of Visma-Lease a Bike, Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers and Krists Neilands of Israel-Premier Tech(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
The large lead group of 36 riders passes all through a valley on a scorching day, temperatures hovering over 36C(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Stage 17 winner Richard Carapaz (EF Coaching-EasyPost) rides on the doorway of the lead group, trailed by by teammate Sean Quinn and Jai Hindley of Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Michael Matthews of Jayco-AlUla rides subsequent to World Champion Mathieu van der Poel of Alpecin-Deceuninck inside the entrance group of 36 riders(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Tadej Pogacar carrying the final chief’s yellow jersey rides inside the peloton(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Tadej Pogačar of UAE Crew Emirates, inside the Yellow Chief Jersey, on the rolling roads from Gap into the Alps(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Crew Visma – Lease a Bike’s Wout van Aertat the doorway of the lead group between Gap and Barcelonnette inside the French Alps(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates), inside the complete chief’s yellow jersey, rides in peloton on the undulating terrain of stage 18 and on the descent of the Col du Festre (Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
The peloton enjoys a sunny day of undulating terrain inside the Alps, with 179.5 km between Gap and Barcelonnette(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
The peloton on stage 18 of the 2024 Tour de France(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Fast and furious racing on stage 18(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Geraint Thomas and Victor Campenaerts lead the large breakaway group on stage 18(Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Biniam Girmay (left) inside the inexperienced sprint jersey talks firstly to Jonas Vingegaard inside the polka-dot mountain jersey (Image credit score rating: Getty Images)
Tadej Pogačar of UAE Crew Emirates appears to be relaxed firstly in Gap by having fun with a sport earlier to the start(Image credit score rating: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny) gained stage 18 of the Tour de France from Gap to Barcelonnette after one different battle for the breakaway and one different intense battle for the stage victory.
The Belgian rider purchased away with Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) and Tour debutant Mattéo Vercher (TotalEnergies) inside the final 35km of the stage.
They labored correctly collectively to hold off the chasers after which sprinted for the stage victory. Kwiatkowski was pressured to information out the sprint and Campenaerts kicked laborious to hit the doorway and win. Vercher was second, with Kwiatkowski third.
After turning right into a father just a few weeks, Campenaerts was in tears as he savoured his first-ever Tour stage victory.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Crew Emirates) and the alternative GC contenders let the break go clear early inside the stage, preferring to keep away from losing their energy for the last word mountain stage of this yr’s Tour de France that begin on Friday.
