Stage 8 - Dole-Lausanne 186.3 km

1 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 4:13:06
2 Michael Matthews (Aus) Team BikeExchange - Jayco 0:00
3 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:00
4 Andreas Kron (Den) Lotto Soudal 0:00
5 Alberto Bettiol (Ita) EF Education-EasyPost 0:00
6 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) BORA - hansgrohe 0:00
7 Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Cofidis 0:00
8 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 0:00
9 Bob Jungels (Lux) AG2R Citroen Team 0:00
10 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:00

Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+32 Mathieu Burgaudeau
+28 Mikkel Frolich Honore
+24 Joe Dombrowski
+21 Andreas Kron
+18 Georg Zimmermann
+17 Michael Matthews
+16 Jonathan Castroviejo
+14 Antoine Duchesne
+12 Ruben Guerreiro
+12 Nick Schultz

Biggest losers by position :
-35 Frederik Frison
-34 Cyril Barthe
-30 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-24 Pierre Rolland
-23 Pierre Latour
-21 Guy Niv
-20 Kobe Goossens
-19 Nathan Van Hooydonck
-18 Mads Pedersen
-17 Luke Durbridge
-16 Ben O'Connor

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:06 Wout Van Aert
+0:02 Michael Matthews

Biggest losers by time :
-20:58 Amund Grondahl Jansen
-14:56 Danny Van Poppel
-14:56 Kasper Asgreen
-14:56 Michael Morkov
-14:41 Frederik Frison
-14:14 Cyril Barthe
-14:10 Andrea Bagioli
-12:52 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-12:00 Mikkel Bjerg
-11:35 Anthony Turgis
-11:35 Pierre Latour

Favourites by position :
+1 Damiano Caruso
-4 Ion Izagirre
-6 Maximilian Schachmann
-6 Jakob Fuglsang
-16 Ben O'Connor

Favourites by time :
-0:04 Primoz Roglic
-0:04 Nairo Quintana
-0:04 Jonas Vingegaard
-0:04 Geraint Thomas
-0:04 Enric Mas
-0:04 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-0:04 Damiano Caruso
-0:04 Aleksandr Vlasov
-0:04 Adam Yates
-2:22 Maximilian Schachmann
-4:57 Jakob Fuglsang
-4:57 Ion Izagirre
-9:15 Ben O'Connor

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Tadej Pogacar 28:56:16 (unchanged)
2 Jonas Vingegaard 0:39 (was 2nd at 0:35)
3 Geraint Thomas 1:14 (was 3rd at 1:10)
4 Adam Yates 1:22 (was 4th at 1:18)
5 David Gaudu 1:35 (was 5th at 1:31)
6 Romain Bardet 1:36 (was 6th at 1:32)
7 Thomas Pidcock 1:39 (was 7th at 1:35)
8 Neilson Powless 1:41 (was 8th at 1:37)
9 Enric Mas 1:47 (was 9th at 1:43)
10 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:59 (was 10th at 1:55)
11 Nairo Quintana 2:10 (was 11th at 2:06)
12 Aleksandr Vlasov 2:45 (was 12th at 2:41)
13 Primoz Roglic 2:49 (was 13th at 2:45)
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17 Damiano Caruso 3:37 (was 18th at 3:33)
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31 Maximilian Schachmann 8:13 (was 25th at 5:51)
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36 Jakob Fuglsang 11:40 (was 30th at 6:43)
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57 Ion Izagirre 20:27 (was 53rd at 15:30)
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62 Ben O'Connor 23:12 (was 46th at 13:57)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 264 (was 1st with 203 points)
2 Fabio Jakobsen 149 (was 2nd with 140 points)
3 Tadej Pogacar 128 (was 3rd with 108 points)
4 Jasper Philipsen 102 (was 4th with 89 points)
5 Christophe Laporte 97 (was 5th with 87 points)
6 Magnus Cort 86 (unchanged)
7 Peter Sagan 86 (unchanged)
8 Michael Matthews 68 (was 17th with 38 points)
9 Simon Clarke 67 (was 8th with 67 points)
10 Dylan Groenewegen 60 (was 9th with 60 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Magnus Cort 11 (unchanged)
2 Tadej Pogacar 10 (unchanged)
3 Jonas Vingegaard 8 (unchanged)
4 Primoz Roglic 6 (unchanged)
5 Lennard Kamna 5 (unchanged)
6 Simon Geschke 4 (unchanged)
7 Wout Van Aert 4 (was 8th with 2 points)
8 Mattia Cattaneo 3 (was 0 points)
9 Alexis Vuillermoz 2 (was 7th with 2 points)
10 Frederik Frison 2 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 86:52:43 (was 1st at 74:13:25)
2 Jumbo-Visma 0:26 (unchanged)
3 EF Education-EasyPost 6:06 (was 3rd at 5:55)
4 UAE Team Emirates 9:00 (was 6th at 8:22)
5 Bahrain - Victorious 9:32 (was 7th at 8:45)
6 BORA - hansgrohe 9:36 (was 4th at 6:20)
7 Groupama - FDJ 10:38 (was 5th at 7:38)
8 Team Arkea Samsic 16:00 (was 9th at 13:55)
9 Trek - Segafredo 17:22 (was 8th at 12:35)
10 Israel - Premier Tech 20:34 (was 11th at 15:58)
11 Cofidis 21:05 (was 13th at 17:32)
12 AG2R Citroen Team 21:16 (was 12th at 17:06)
13 Team DSM 21:28 (was 10th at 14:26)
14 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 26:15 (was 15th at 23:26)
15 Movistar Team 26:56 (was 14th at 22:57)
16 B&B Hotels - KTM 35:18 (was 16th at 25:57)
17 TotalEnergies 39:31 (was 17th at 34:31)
18 Lotto Soudal 40:35 (was 18th at 37:14)
19 Alpecin-Deceuninck 45:37 (was 19th at 37:15)
20 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 48:55 (was 20th at 37:38)
21 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 49:39 (was 21th at 42:23)
22 Astana Qazaqstan Team 50:09 (was 22th at 45:33)

Retirements to date : Stage
Geoffrey Bouchard (AG2R Citroen Team) 8 <<<
Gianni Moscon (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 8 <<<
Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM) 8 <<<
Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE Team Emirates) 8 <<<
Alex Kirsch (Trek - Segafredo) 6
Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) 6
Jack Haig (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 5
Total retirements : 8

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