Tour de France 2018: stage 10 takes race into the Alps – live!
17 July 2018 11:56
Le Tour heads from Annecy to Le Grand-BornandRichie Porte: another mishap for cycling’s unluckiest manAny comments? You can email John or tweet @John_Ashdown 12.56pm BST @John_Ashdown Lots of people looking forward to this stage as it was used for the Etape last week. Glieres really was a tough climb so it’ll be interesting to see how the pro’s do. Disappointing that the women didn’t ride the whole thing earlier though. 12.54pm BST With the first climb of the day, the pleasantly-named Col de Bluffy, just 19km into the stage there’s a panic at the front of the peloton as about half the pack try and get into the breakaway. Nothing has fully formed yet, though. 12.44pm BST The 2018 edition of La Course has already been over the final hills of this stage. It was a superb race, won in the final metres by Annemiek van Vleuten. Related: Annemiek van Vleuten pips Van der Breggen to win La Course 2018 – as it happened 12.39pm BST 12.33pm BST Hello all and welcome to live coverage of stage 10 of the 2018 edition of the Tour de France. And what a stage it should be – we’re into the mountains! The Col de Romme and Col de la Colombiere (both category one climbs) await in the final 40km but before then we’ve got the Col de la Croix Fry and the hideously steep HC climb of Montée du plateau des Glières, which includes gravel roads near the summit. Continue readingread full article
