Stage 8 - Foggia-Guardia Sanframondi 170 km

1 Victor Lafay (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 4:06:47
2 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) EOLO-Kometa 0:36
3 Nikias Arndt (Ger) Team DSM 0:37
4 Nelson Oliveira (Por) Movistar Team 0:41
5 Giovanni Carboni (Ita) Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 0:44
6 Kobe Goossens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:58
7 Victor Campenaerts (Bel) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 1:00
8 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R Citroen Team 1:54
9 Fernando Gaviria (Col) UAE-Team Emirates 3:04
10 Joao Almeida (Por) Deceuninck - Quick Step 4:48

Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+31 Alexis Gougeard
+21 Fernando Gaviria
+19 Matthias Brandle
+19 Alex Dowsett
+17 Nikias Arndt
+17 Kobe Goossens
+13 Victor Campenaerts
+13 Clement Champoussin
+12 Thomas De Gendt
+12 Simon Carr

Biggest losers by position :
-17 Filippo Ganna
-14 Jan Tratnik
-13 Peter Sagan
-13 Simone Ravanelli
-13 Christopher Juul-Jensen
-12 Simon Guglielmi
-10 Stefano Oldani
-9 Daniel Oss
-9 Simone Petilli
-9 Taco Van Der Hoorn
-8 Natnael Tesfatsion

Biggest gainers by time :
+4:58 Victor Lafay
+4:18 Francesco Gavazzi
+4:15 Nikias Arndt
+4:07 Nelson Oliveira
+4:06 Giovanni Carboni
+3:51 Victor Campenaerts
+3:50 Kobe Goossens
+2:55 Alexis Gougeard
+1:44 Fernando Gaviria

Biggest losers by time :
-13:12 Roger Kluge
-12:31 Attilio Viviani
-12:31 David Dekker
-12:31 Dylan Groenewegen
-12:31 Tim Merlier
-9:23 Albert Torres
-9:23 Alexander Krieger
-9:23 Cameron Meyer
-9:23 Elia Viviani
-9:23 Filippo Ganna
-9:23 Giacomo Nizzolo

Favourites by position :
+1 Vincenzo Nibali
+1 Tejay Van Garderen
+1 Simon Yates
+1 Joao Almeida
+1 Hugh Carthy
+1 Emanuel Buchmann
+1 Dan Martin
-1 Bauke Mollema
-2 Pello Bilbao

Favourites by time :
-0:11 Jai Hindley
-0:30 Pello Bilbao
-1:30 Bauke Mollema
-3:39 Tejay Van Garderen

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Attila Valter 31:10:53 (unchanged)
2 Remco Evenepoel 0:11 (unchanged)
3 Egan Bernal 0:16 (unchanged)
4 Aleksandr Vlasov 0:24 (unchanged)
5 Hugh Carthy 0:38 (was 6th at 0:38)
6 Damiano Caruso 0:39 (was 7th at 0:39)
7 Giulio Ciccone 0:41 (was 8th at 0:41)
8 Dan Martin 0:47 (was 9th at 0:47)
9 Simon Yates 0:49 (was 10th at 0:49)
10 Louis Vervaeke 0:50 (was 5th at 0:25)
.....
12 Daniel Felipe Martinez 1:06 (unchanged)
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15 Emanuel Buchmann 1:40 (was 16th at 1:40)
16 Vincenzo Nibali 1:43 (was 17th at 1:43)
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21 Pello Bilbao 2:31 (was 19th at 2:01)
22 Fausto Masnada 3:09 (unchanged)
23 Jai Hindley 3:40 (was 23rd at 3:29)
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25 Joao Almeida 4:49 (was 26th at 4:49)
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40 Bauke Mollema 16:56 (was 39th at 15:26)
.....
99 Tejay Van Garderen 49:29 (was 100th at 45:50)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Tim Merlier 83 (was 2nd with 83 points)
2 Giacomo Nizzolo 76 (was 3rd with 76 points)
3 Elia Viviani 69 (was 4th with 69 points)
4 Davide Cimolai 66 (was 5th with 66 points)
5 Peter Sagan 57 (was 6th with 57 points)
6 Fernando Gaviria 56 (was 7th with 42 points)
7 Matteo Moschetti 42 (was 8th with 42 points)
8 Filippo Tagliani 39 (was 9th with 39 points)
9 Filippo Fiorelli 39 (was 10th with 39 points)
10 Dylan Groenewegen 36 (was 11th with 36 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Gino Mader 26 (unchanged)
2 Geoffrey Bouchard 18 (unchanged)
3 Kobe Goossens 18 (was 0 points)
4 Francesco Gavazzi 17 (was 7th with 9 points)
5 Vincenzo Albanese 16 (was 3rd with 16 points)
6 Rein Taaramae 13 (was 4th with 13 points)
7 Matej Mohoric 10 (was 5th with 10 points)
8 Alessandro De Marchi 10 (was 6th with 10 points)
9 Simon Pellaud 9 (was 8th with 9 points)
10 Nikias Arndt 9 (was 0 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 INEOS Grenadiers 93:35:22 (was 2nd at 0:39)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 1:05 (was 1st at 80:59:58)
3 Team BikeExchange 2:15 (was 3rd at 2:48)
4 Trek - Segafredo 3:59 (was 4th at 3:48)
5 Deceuninck - Quick Step 5:08 (was 5th at 5:47)
6 Team DSM 8:16 (was 7th at 12:55)
7 EF Education - Nippo 9:32 (was 6th at 6:10)
8 Movistar Team 10:00 (was 8th at 13:46)
9 Team Jumbo-Visma 18:00 (was 9th at 18:39)
10 UAE-Team Emirates 21:17 (was 11th at 23:40)
11 Astana - Premier Tech 21:36 (was 10th at 21:25)
12 BORA - hansgrohe 36:02 (was 12th at 29:23)
13 Israel Start-Up Nation 40:48 (was 13th at 38:19)
14 EOLO-Kometa 41:46 (was 14th at 43:17)
15 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 46:59 (was 15th at 46:32)
16 Groupama - FDJ 47:56 (was 16th at 48:05)
17 AG2R Citroen Team 57:13 (was 17th at 58:48)
18 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:19:31 (was 19th at 1:21:41)
19 Bardiani-CSF-Faizane 1:26:22 (was 21th at 1:26:55)
20 Alpecin-Fenix 1:27:43 (was 18th at 1:18:50)
21 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 1:32:46 (was 20th at 1:24:16)
22 Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec 1:46:22 (was 22th at 1:38:13)
23 Lotto Soudal 2:04:00 (was 23th at 2:01:04)

Retirements to date : Stage
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) 8 <<<
Domenico Pozzovivo (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 7
Francois Bidard (AG2R Citroen Team) 6
Joe Dombrowski (UAE-Team Emirates) 6
Manuel Belletti (EOLO-Kometa) 6
Pavel Sivakov (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Mikel Landa (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Krists Neilands (Israel Start-Up Nation) 2
Felix Grosschartner (BORA - hansgrohe) 1
Total retirements : 9

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