00:00I hope I will not face too many difficulties with my shape in the big mountain.
00:15I tried to eat as much as possible but it was like nothing goes in my legs.
00:20I'm gone. I'm dead.
00:23How are you?
00:26I'm fucked. If I don't have such a great support around me, I was already thinking to lose the podium today.
00:33I'm grateful for all my teammates.
00:36Come on, man. This is for the Tour de France. Come on. I know it's hard. You just got to hang on.
00:41Pogacar almost got back but he has found the Cold La Loz, a fearsome opponent.
00:49I was looking forward for this stage since the beginning of the Tour so I hope I'm ready and it's going to be a tough one.
00:58Today was a brutal day. Five hours in the saddle and I'm not sure I've ever done such a hard stage in the Tour before.
01:23The Queen's stage will be a torturous affair. Glendon and Madeleine the appetizers before the third and final or category climb up the Coe de la Loz.
01:39An explosive one between the expected GC fight and any climbers with the legs for the challenge.
01:44Lenny, not so serious. There is the front. Somebody smile.
01:53Le départ réel, le départ réel donné à midi, 20.
01:57Lidl Trek prend la main directement. Lidl Trek, rock. Lidl Trek, rock, formidable for the sprint.
02:05And there's a lot of teams who want the green jersey to go to a sprint and not to Poggy apparently.
02:15Here is the sprint in Rui Peru. It's going to be the team of Lidl Trek and Jonathan Milan as he fires his way to the line.
02:25It's going to be Jonathan Milan ahead of Bini Mgemai and it looked like Turgis just behind, followed by Abrahamsen in fourth place.
02:33Wellens goes through to the front.
02:36The riders starting to fracture up the stern Glendon test. Niels Pollitt pulling the bunch to within around 90 seconds of the breakaway.
02:55But at the back, the polka dots of Lenny Martinez were desperately searching a second wind.
03:01Fifth overall, Primoz Roglic, the highest placed rider.
03:05A chase ongoing to make contact, but not before the head of the race fought it out for the first king of the mountain points.
03:14Martinez moves up and here goes Aaronsman. He's going to go head to head with Lenny Martinez for the points.
03:20Martinez jumps away. Over the top of the cold at Glendon is the rider wearing the polka dots.
03:26Now makes it his officially 20 points to Lenny Martinez.
03:32Jorgensen and Aaronsman manage to distance the others on the descent.
03:36Nearly three minutes from the head of the race to the yellow jersey.
03:39Yeah, Bruno Armarei dragged a six man chase back in aid of team mate Felix Gall.
03:46Roglic into virtual third over stable mate Lipovic.
03:49Kevin Volklang struggling at the back of a Visma controlled peloton, desperate to light up their yellow jersey ambitions.
03:55There's acceleration, Seb Kurs.
03:57Here we go. The attacks have started. Kurs and Wengergaard have started an assault.
04:03Lipovic decides he's got to come across.
04:05Three kilometers from the Madeleine summit, Wengergaard and the yellow jersey made it to the front.
04:14Lipovic, though, unable to match the pace. Two down, one to go. The Col de la Lose.
04:19The Col de la Lose is a Bergerberger.
04:22Three kilometers from the head of the head of Jack Robinson.
04:28Peno Conor and Heiner Rubio. Three kilometers from the head.
04:32The blue jersey is a stop for airway and the red jersey is a stop for airway in the 90s.
04:35Three Definitely players by the hand of the blue jersey.
04:37The final climb of an intriguing stage, stage 18, there's the vital statistics.
05:00He's talking on the radio, so most likely been asked to slow down.
05:18Wiesma have decided that it's not Jorgensen's day. O'Connor takes a look.
05:25Zlipovic, he's catching Jorgensen, who will just wait.
05:33The group of the Maillots jaunt at 3.12, then the drop riders behind various different groups.
05:43Ben O'Connor attacks, big move of the Australian, and O'Connor has decided to go for gold.
05:54Matteo Jorgensen, who has been repris.
05:5720 seconds in advance for Ben O'Connor.
06:02Florian Lippoic is repris by the Group of Maillots.
06:04Florian Lippoic is repris by the Group of Maillots.
06:08He hunches his shoulders. It has been a brilliant day across the mountains.
06:1616km solo, a brilliant day for a brilliant rider.
06:21Jubilation for Jaco Alula. Brilliant Ben O'Connor wins his second stage in the Tour de France.
06:27Big move of the yellow jersey. He's revving it up now at the top of the Col de Loz to show Wengergaard who is the boss.
06:37Onli is still fighting because he knows that any little acceleration is going to give him a bit more time.
06:45But Wengergaard has to succumb to the power of the boss.
06:49Pogaccia is the boss of the 25 Tour de France. Wengergaard finishes behind him.
06:59Pogaccia is the biggest race in the world, but it's for sure the cruelest.
07:23I wanted to have another victory for so many years now.
07:28I've been fighting with thirds and fourths and so close, but yeah, I couldn't be proud.
07:35I couldn't be more proud of myself.
07:37Yeah, it's what the team needed and it's what I needed. So good.
07:42A four-year wait but O'Connor solos once more to a Tour stage win.
07:58Rubio caught but still the Colombian's best finish on his Grand Boucle debut, only crossing just behind the big two.
08:05The Visma plan didn't work as Pogaccia increased his advantage in yellow, a huge step towards a fourth Tour de France title.
08:17Jonathan Milan with important points earned. The Lidltrek speedster with a 75-point cushion.
08:24No green, but Pogaccia still with polka dots.
08:28Viragor will wear them tomorrow with Martinez down to third.
08:31Leibowitz in white but a stunning showing from Super-Scott Oscar Onley means just 22 seconds in the fight for the jersey and the GC podium.
08:41float it at the top first, otherwise, I saw him at the top.
08:48Next we'll see you on the podium.
08:52You
