Tour de France stage 18: Pau > Hautacam, 145.5kms
Tiago Machado leads a 20-man escape away from the early kilometres...
Lars Boom and Jan Bakelandts are pulling the escape to a near-four-minute lead, but that's as far as they'll get...
Fans cheer the Tour as it speeds in pursuit of the escape...
A tired-looking Jacob Fuglsang is leading Astana's train on the lower-slopes of the Col du Tourmalet...
Alessandro De Marchi is making a get-away ahead of the escape on the Tourmalet...
Mikel Nieve now leads on the Tourmalet ahead of Biel Kadri...
Astana leads a small peloton halfway up the Tourmalet, where the clouds are coming down on the race...
Nieve is trying to break away near the summit, but it will be Kadri who crosses first...
Nieve has got away and now leads alone on the last climb to Hautacam...
Vincenzo Nibali has suddenly accelerated away, facing the 13-kilometre climb with only Nieve to pass...
Rafal Majka has been caught out most of all, but it's a desperate scramble further back as well...
Tejay Van Garderen and Thibaut Pinot are locked in a battle with each other...
Zubeldia has latched on to a group led by a desperate Alejandro Valverde - he'll lose a chunk of time and 3rd-place overall by the finish...
Nibali is one-minute clear of his chasers, drinking water as he goes alone - it will be champagne he drinks next Sunday..!
Van garderen leads Pinot and Jean-Christophe Peraud in an effort to pull further away from Valverde...
Vincenzo Nibali wins his fourth stage of the Tour and pushes his overall advantage to over seven-minutes..!
