Bicycling Magazine continues its daily dispatches from the Tour de France for The Wall Street Journal with a report from the 18th stage.

SAINT ETIENNE, France -- As usual in a day following the last big mountain challenges, Stage 18 of the Tour de France finished without incident for its top contenders. Marcus Burghardt, a German riding for Columbia, won Thursday's 122-mile stage from Bourg-d'Oisans to Saint Etienne.

The...