Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) won the eighth stage of the 109e Ronde van Frankrijk. After 186.3 kilometers from Dole to the Zwitserse Lausanne, there was a sprint in the mountains of the Australian Michael Matthew and the Slovene Tadej Pogacar after.
The 23-year-old Pogacar (UAE Emirates) kept the game going. The announcement of the two edits heft 39 seconds before Deen Jonas Vingegaard. Wout van Aert zit nu nog steviger in het groen. He has 115 points for the Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen. Pogacar follows as the op 136 points.
After the four stages there are two gaps in the Tour for Van Aert. In the first three stages there will be two.
Second day brings the next stage of the peloton from the UCI base in Aigle Weer Terug near Frankrijk. There is a distance of 192.9 kilometers to get to het ski-oord Châtel Les Portes du Soleil. On the other hand, two cols of the first category were conquered: the Col de la Croix (8.1 km, 7.6%) and the Pas de Morgins (15.4 km, 6.1%). The last col is the next ten kilometers before the arrival. The last four days of the week in Stijgende Lijn.