2018 Tour de France

The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition, 3,351 km in 21 stages from Noirmoutier-en-l'Île in western France on 7 July to the Champs-Élysées on 29 July, with 176 riders from 22 teams. Geraint Thomas won, with Tom Dumoulin second and Thomas's teammate, the four-time winner Chris Froome, third. Fernando Gaviria won the opening stage and the first yellow jersey, Peter Sagan took the lead the next day, and the stage 3 team time trial put Greg Van Avermaet in yellow for eight days until Thomas won the second of three Alpine stages and took over, defending against Dumoulin through the Pyrenees and the penultimate-day time trial, which Dumoulin won. Sagan won the points classification for the sixth time with three stage wins, Julian Alaphilippe won two mountain stages and the mountains classification, and Pierre Latour the young rider prize.