<h1>Tour de France 2016: Chris Froome wins stage 18 to extend overall lead</h1>

Britain's Chris Froome won the stage-18 time trial to edge nearer to winning his third Tour Diamond State France title. Team Sky's Froome finished twenty one seconds earlier than Dutchman Tom Dumoulin to win the unsmooth 17km stage in half-hour and forty three seconds, with Fabio Aru third. Froome, the 2013 and 2015 Tour winner, currently leads the 2016 edition by 3 minutes and fifty two seconds. Bauke Mollema of Holland and Briton Adam Yates remained second and third overall severally.
* How Froome won stage eighteen
The stage started in Sallanches associated featured an onekm section wherever the race ascended virtually 700m from 566m to 1,279m before a technical descent into the end in Megeve. With the riders going call at reverse order, Dumoulin, WHO won the time trial on stage thirteen, once more set the pace, some 2 hours before Froome set out. His time of thirty one minutes, four seconds, bettered that of Thomas Diamond State Gendt by forty-one seconds and also the Team Giant-Alpecin rider then Sabbatum within the winner's chair, look the race unfold on tv.
* Paced to Perfection
Froome was twenty three seconds behind Dumoulin at the primary time-check, after 6.5km, however had narrowed that to ten seconds by 10km. The next check came at thirteen.5km and Froome had touched thirteen seconds clear and picked up another few seconds on the descent into the end. "I extremely did not expect to beat Tom, pacing was key," same Froome, WHO is attempting to become the primary man to win consecutive Tour titles since Spain's Miguel Indurain won 5 on the trot from 1991. "I started off steady and extremely controlled that initial half then gave it everything I had."