At the first of the Mountain Stages in the 2018 Tour de France, eventual winner Julian Alaphilippe and overall leader Greg Van Avermaet were part of an early breakaway, consisting of 19 other riders. Team Sky were content to let the breakaway form quite a big gap along the 158.5km-long stage, and after about 50km it was very evident that the eventual victor was going to come from the break - the first for this year's Tour!
Rein Taaramäe was the first to attack in the closing kilometres, but Alaphilippe bridged over to Direct Energie's Estonian rider and continued pushing on. No-one had anything close to what the Frenchman had in his locker and he emphatically took the Stage win!
Stage 10 Results;
1 ) Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step Floors | FRA) 4:25:27
2 ) Ion Izagirre (Bahrain-Merida | ESP) + 0:01:34
3 ) Rein Taaramäe (Direct Energie | EST) + 0:01:40
4 ) Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing | BEL) + 0:01:44
5 ) Serge Pauwels (Dimension Data | BEL)
6 ) Lilian Calmejane (Direct Energie | FRA) + 0:02:24
7 ) Daniel Martin (UAE Team Emirates | IRL) + 0:03:03
8 ) Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo | SLO)
9 ) David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ | FRA)
10 ) Geraint Thomas (Team Sky | GBR)
GC Standings after Stage 10;
1 ) Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing | BEL) 40:34:28
2 ) Geraint Thomas (Team Sky | GBR) + 0:02:22
3 ) Alejandro Valverde (Movistar | ESP) + 0:03:10
4 ) Jakob Fuglsang (Astana | DEN) + 0:03:12
5 ) Bob Jungels (Quick-Step Floors | LUX) + 0:03:20
6 ) Chris Froome (Team Sky | GBR) + 0:03:21
7 ) Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott | GBR)
8 ) Mikel Landa (Movistar | ESP)
9 ) Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida | ITA) + 0:03:27
10 ) Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo | SLO) + 0:03:36