Tour de France stage 18 LIVE – A battle for the yellow jersey on the Tour’s savage Queen stage

There is always debate abut which stage is the ‘Queen stage’ of each Tour but today’s stage is special, super hard – to quote most riders, and ends on the highest point of this year’s race, the Col de la Loze at 2304m.

As Alasdair Fotheringham wrote in his special preview feature “This is crunch time with a capital C in the 2025 Tour de France.”

Click here to read the full stage 18 feature.

There is an hour to the start of the stage but the riders are already signing on in Vif.

Bonjour et bienvenue to Cyclingnews‘ live coverage of stage 18 of the 2025 Tour de France !