Elie Gesbert
In a year when the Tour de France did not have a repeat stage winner until Stage 13, it’s perhaps a turn of favor that only six riders held the Point d’Appui during the tour. On the Champs Elysees, the winner of the grey jersey turned out to be Elie Gesbert, the 24-year-old rider for the Breton team Arkéa Samsic.
Gesbert was named most combative rider Stage 14 of this year’s tour. He got in the break on the day that the tour went over the Col du Soulour, staying with Vincenzo Nibali and Tim Wellens over the top and then making his own mad dash up the Col du Tourmalet. He won most combative rider on Stage 12 of the 2018 Tour de France and won best young rider in this year’s Tour of Oman and the same award twice earlier in separate editions of the Tour du Limousin.
The Point d’Appui through the stages so far:
- Stage 1 — No fulcrum
- Stage 2 — No fulcrum
- Stage 3 — No fulcrum
- Stage 4 — No fulcrum
- Stage 5 — No fulcrum
- Stage 6 — No fulcrum
- Stage 7 — No fulcrum
- Stage 8 — No fulcrum
- Stage 9 — Dylan van Baarle of Team Ineos
- Stage 10 — Jens Keukeleire of Lotto Soudal
- Stage 11 — Jens Keukeleire of Lotto Soudal
- Stage 12 — No fulcrum
- Stage 13 — No fulcrum
- Stage 14 — No fulcrum
- Stage 15 — No fulcrum
- Stage 16 — No fulcrum
- Stage 17 — No fulcrum
- Stage 18 — No fulcrum
- Stage 19 — Toms Skujins of Trek-Segafredo
- Stage 20 — Elie Gesbert of Arkéa Samsic
- Stage 21 — Elie Gesbert of Arkéa Samsic
Egan Bernal of Team Ineos won the general classification after strong work in the Alps, including a clear stamp of authority going over the Col de l’Iseran more than 2 minutes ahead of the yellow jersey, Julian Alaphilippe, on Stage 19 when the race was cut short as a result of snow, sleet, hail, rain and mudslides further along the route, real wrath of God kind of stuff. Bernal, the youngest rider in this year’s race, is the first Colombian to win the Tour de France. Sebastian Langeveld of EF Education First held the Lanterne Rouge on the final run into Paris.
Point d'Appui 