Tour de France 2026, live | Follow the end of Stage 18, live
16:45 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 21 kilometers left
Leave Brandon McNulty! One of the UAE teammates leaves the Grande Boucle today. There is a virus on the Pogacar team and it is taking its toll. Adam Yates is down and now McNulty is quitting. Complicated situation in the Emirati team.
16:41 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 22 kilometers left
Raúl García Pierna stays! The Movistar man has not withstood the change in pace of the group and leaves the favorites to win the stage by five units.
16:37 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 23 kilometers left
Jorgensson attacks at the exit of a roundabout! The Visma runner has taken advantage of the confusion of his fellow escapees to start and now everyone is chasing them, we will see if anyone stays in the acceleration.
16:33 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 28 kilometers left
The distance between the head of the race and the peloton has stabilized in the eight minutes and remains there. Carapaz He is the best placed overall of the 6 in the front group and could sneak into the top 10.
16:29 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 55 years since Ocaña’s victory in Orcières-Merlette
In 1971, Luis Ocaña He attacked with 60 kilometers to go in a stage like today ending in Orcières-Merlette, inflicting no less than 8’42” on Eddy Merckx, winning the yellow jersey. Three stages later, he would crash down the Col de Menté, abandoning after completing one of the greatest feats ever witnessed in the Tour. Two years later, Ocaña would achieve his long-awaited victory in the Tour de France… without Merckx in the race.
16:25 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 34 kilometers left
The front sextet is consolidated. The rest of the breakaway is not following the pace of the leading 6 men and the distance with the nearest group has increased to 1’13” and rising. Everything indicates that stage victory will be between them.
16:21 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 36 kilometers left
Adam Yates is bad again. The gregarious Tadej Pogacar already suffered in yesterday’s stage and today he looks bad again. He just went down to the team car to get a drink. It seems that Pogacar will not be able to count on him in today’s finale.
16:17 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 39 kilometers left
There are 6 runners left at the head of the race! After the attacks, 6 cyclists remain in front: Matteo Jorgenson, Richard Carapaz, ValentinParet-Peintre, Mauro Schmid, Tobias Johannessen and Raúl García Pierna are those who have survived.
16:13 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 42 kilometers left
This is the general classification right now, all the favorites for the general classification are in the peloton in today’s stage.
- Tadej Pogačar
- Remco Evenepoel — 4’32”
- Isaac del Toro — 6’51”
- Paul Seixas — 7’11”
- Juan Ayuso — 9’22”
16:09 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 44 kilometers left
The running attacks begin. We see Jorgenson, Johannensen and Engelhardt attacking head on, Carapaz is trying to neutralize in first person. Let’s see how the group stays after these attacks and responses.
16:05 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 49 kilometers left
The platoon, to its own. The big teams are choosing not to shoot and now they are TotalEnergies and Pinarello those who assume the responsibility to defend the top 10 of Jegat and Pidcock respectively. There are 8’17” minutes that separate the peloton from the front group.
16:01 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 53 kilometers left
Corps Intermediate Sprint Result:
1. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), 25
2. Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla), 20
3. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), 16
4. Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), 14
5. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike), 12
6. Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek), 10
7. Felix Engelhardt (Jayco AlUla), 9
8. Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), 8
9. Raúl García Pierna (Movistar Team), 7
10. Pablo Castrillo (Movistar Team), 6
11. Nicolas Breuillard (TotalEnergies), 5
12. Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United), 4
13. Egan Bernal (Netcompany Ineos), 3
14. Thymen Arensman (Netcompany Ineos), 2
15. Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ United), 1
1. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), 25
2. Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla), 20
3. Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), 16
4. Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), 14
5. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike), 12
6. Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek), 10
7. Felix Engelhardt (Jayco AlUla), 9
8. Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), 8
9. Raúl García Pierna (Movistar Team), 7
10. Pablo Castrillo (Movistar Team), 6
11. Nicolas Breuillard (TotalEnergies), 5
12. Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United), 4
13. Egan Bernal (Netcompany Ineos), 3
14. Thymen Arensman (Netcompany Ineos), 2
15. Guillaume Martin-Guyonnet (Groupama-FDJ United), 1
15:57 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 56 kilometers left
Nobody has competed in the sprint against Mads Pedersen. The Dane has 25 points for the green jersey that could be definitive for the end of the Tour. If the race follows its script it will be difficult for Philipsen to add points before the last stage and if he reaches this distance the Lidl rider will wear green in Paris.
15:53 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 59 kilometers left
4 kilometers for the intermediate sprint and the chasing group fails to cut back. The peloton is still further behind: they are already running almost eight minutes behind and no one seems to be pushing in the main group.
15:49 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 62 kilometers left
Mads Pedersen He is in the most advanced group and is the top favorite to take the 25 points offered by the intermediate sprint. Let’s remember that right now it has only 7 points over Jasper Philipsen.
15:46 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 65 kilometers left
10 kilometers for the intermediate sprint. The fight for the green jersey points is being wild today. Behind the 14 escapees comes a group less than a minute away with the aim of sneaking in to fight for the sprint but it seems difficult for them to arrive. Tension for everyone until we reach the municipality of Corps!
15:42 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 67 kilometers left
These are the escapees of the day: Matteo Jorgenson (Visma | Lease a Bike), Mads Pedersen, Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek), Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), Thymen Arensman, Egan Bernal (Netcompany Ineos), Aurélien Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step), Felix Engelhardt, Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla), Tobias Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), Pablo Castrillo, Raúl García Pierna (Movistar Team), Nicolas Breuillard (TotalEnergies) and Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ United).
15:38 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 71 kilometers left
Paret-Peintre takes two points at the top of Cote de Terrassesthird category. The Frenchman adds two more points and continues chasing Pogacar in the mountain classification. Right now he is 7 points behind the Slovenian.
15:34 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 73 kilometers left
Let’s go with what happens live!
The cyclists have already overcome the first two scoring climbs of the day and we have a breakaway formed. 14 brave men are in the front group with an advantage of 6’00” over the peloton. There are five cyclists between one group and the other.
15:30 Tour de France 2026 today, live | This is Stage 18
Stage 18 is a new opportunity for the men of the general classification to make important differences. With five scoring climbs, the peloton will not be able to relax at any time and only those who survive to the end will compete for partial victory in Orcieres-Merlette, a 7 kilometer pass at 6.7% average slope that will close today.
15:25 Tour de France 2026, live today | Schedule and where to see Stage 18
The 18th Stage of the 113th Edition of the Tour de France 2026 It started around 12:50 p.m., in Voironand will end around 5:20 p.m. in Orcieres-Merlette.
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15:20 TOUR DE FRANCE 2026 TODAY, LIVE | The profile of today’s stage
15:15 TOUR DE FRANCE 2026 TODAY, LIVE | STAGE 18
Good afternoon friends of Sports World!
Welcome to the live narration of the eighteenth stage of the 113th edition of the Tour de France 2026.
Today the peloton faces a mountain stage with a high finish in Orcieres-Merlette. 185 kilometers with more than 3,900 meters of elevation gain that should help mark distances in the general classification.
Let’s start!
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16:49 Tour de France 2026 Stage 18, live | 19 kilometers left