2024 Tour de France stage 8 GC Update: Tadej Pogacar heads into much talked about gravel stage with narrow GC lead
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Ahead of a day that is sure to greatly increase the stress levels among the favourites for the general classification, stage 8 of the 2024 Tour de France saw a more relaxing day for GC riders as Biniam Girmay took his second stage win of this Grand Tour.
Tadej Pogacar started with the yellow jersey and a lead of 33 seconds over Remco Evenepoel, 2nd, and 1 minute and 15 seconds over Jonas Vingegaard, 3rd and that's how things stayed at the end of the day. After Jonas Abrahamsen led a solo breakaway for 170 kilometres, the Uno-X Mobility rider was caught with 14 km to go by the full peloton, so the stage was finally decided in a sprint. This left Pogacar holding the yellow before the gravel with the same gap over Evenepoel (2nd at 33 seconds) and Vingegaard (3rd at 1 minute and 15 seconds).
Behind, Primoz Roglic remains in 4th position at 1 minute and 36 seconds. Juan Ayuso is the next best in the overall, 5th at 2 minutes and 16 seconds behind Pogacar and narrowly ahead of teammate, Joao Almeida who sits 6th, 1 second behind teammate Ayuso and 2 minutes and 17 seconds behind leader Pogacar,
The rest of the Top 10 is completed by Carlos Rodriguez, 7th at 2 minutes and 31 seconds, and Mikel Landa, 8th at 3 minutes and 35 seconds. Matteo Jorgenson, 9th, 4 minutes and 3 seconds behind the yellow jersey, and Aleksandr Vlasov, 10th, 4 minutes and 36 seconds behind.
Tour de France 2024 GC after stage 8.
| 1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE Team Emirates | 31:21:13 |
| 2 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | + 33 |
| 3 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 01:15 |
| 4 | ROGLIC Primoz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 01:36 |
| 5 | AYUSO Juan | UAE Team Emirates | + 02:16 |
| 6 | ALMEIDA Joao | UAE Team Emirates | + 02:17 |
| 7 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | + 02:31 |
| 8 | LANDA Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | + 03:35 |
| 9 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 04:03 |
| 10 | VLASOV Aleksandr | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 04:36 |
| 11 | YATES Adam | UAE Team Emirates | + 04:56 |
| 12 | BERNAL Egan | INEOS Grenadiers | + 05:25 |
| 13 | CICCONE Giulio | Lidl-Trek | + 05:35 |
| 14 | GEE Derek | Israel-Premier Tech | + 05:52 |
| 15 | BUITRAGO Santiago | Bahrain Victorious | + 05:53 |
| 16 | BILBAO Pello | Bahrain Victorious | + 05:58 |
| 17 | YATES Simon | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 06:01 |
| 18 | GALL Felix | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 06:06 |
| 19 | HINDLEY Jai | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 06:24 |
| 20 | MAS Enric | Movistar Team | + 06:27 |
| 21 | VAN WILDER Ilan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 06:43 |
| 22 | CRAS Steff | TotalEnergies | + 07:23 |
| 23 | HAIG Jack | Bahrain Victorious | + 07:37 |
| 24 | MARTIN Guillaume | Cofidis | + 07:41 |
| 25 | DE PLUS Laurens | INEOS Grenadiers | + 07:47 |
| 26 | CARAPAZ Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | + 07:57 |
| 27 | MEINTJES Louis | Intermarché-Wanty | + 08:57 |
| 28 | HEALY Ben | EF Education-EasyPost | + 08:59 |
| 29 | THOMAS Geraint | INEOS Grenadiers | + 09:33 |
| 30 | HARPER Chris | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 11:15 |
| 31 | ROMO Javier | Movistar Team | + 13:13 |
| 32 | EIKING Odd Christian | Uno-X Mobility | + 15:31 |
| 33 | ARMIRAIL Bruno | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 16:50 |
| 34 | VERONA Carlos | Lidl-Trek | + 18:28 |
| 35 | PIDCOCK Tom | INEOS Grenadiers | + 18:33 |
| 36 | BARDET Romain | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 19:32 |
| 37 | MADOUAS Valentin | Groupama-FDJ | + 19:49 |
| 38 | BERNARD Julien | Lidl-Trek | + 20:41 |
| 39 | VAN GILS Maxim | Lotto Dstny | + 21:27 |
| 40 | KELDERMAN Wilco | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 22:44 |
| 41 | SKUJINS Toms | Lidl-Trek | + 23:43 |
| 42 | JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland | Uno-X Mobility | + 24:35 |
| 43 | POWLESS Neilson | EF Education-EasyPost | + 25:19 |
| 44 | ONLEY Oscar | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 25:48 |
| 45 | BARGUIL Warren | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 26:58 |
| 46 | SIVAKOV Pavel | UAE Team Emirates | + 27:33 |
| 47 | COSTA Rui | EF Education-EasyPost | + 31:51 |
| 48 | VERVAEKE Louis | Soudal Quick-Step | + 32:01 |
| 49 | VAN DEN BROEK Frank | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 32:25 |
| 50 | GRÉGOIRE Romain | Groupama-FDJ | + 32:28 |
| 51 | FORMOLO Davide | Movistar Team | + 35:19 |
| 52 | RODRIGUEZ Cristian | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 36:09 |
| 53 | JUNGELS Bob | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 36:15 |
| 54 | OLIVEIRA Nelson | Movistar Team | + 37:19 |
| 55 | GOOSSENS Kobe | Intermarché-Wanty | + 37:45 |
| 56 | KULSET Johannes | Uno-X Mobility | + 40:58 |
| 57 | VAN AERT Wout | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 41:22 |
| 58 | BENOOT Tiesj | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 41:24 |
| 59 | BETTIOL Alberto | EF Education-EasyPost | + 42:25 |
| 60 | HOULE Hugo | Israel-Premier Tech | + 42:56 |
| 61 | KWIATKOWSKI Michal | INEOS Grenadiers | + 44:51 |
| 62 | ARANBURU Alex | Movistar Team | + 45:02 |
| 63 | ZIMMERMANN Georg | Intermarché-Wanty | + 46:15 |
| 64 | TEJADA Harold | Astana Qazaqstan Team | + 46:56 |
| 65 | FUGLSANG Jakob | Israel-Premier Tech | + 47:03 |
| 66 | JEGAT Jordan | TotalEnergies | + 48:28 |
| 67 | PACHER Quentin | Groupama-FDJ | + 48:57 |
| 68 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | + 49:18 |
| 69 | LAPEIRA Paul | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 49:37 |
| 70 | NEILANDS Krists | Israel-Premier Tech | + 49:53 |
| 71 | GENIETS Kevin | Groupama-FDJ | + 50:21 |
| 72 | PRODHOMME Nicolas | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 51:01 |
| 73 | SOLER Marc | UAE Team Emirates | + 51:49 |
| 74 | CAMPENAERTS Victor | Lotto Dstny | + 51:52 |
| 75 | PETERS Nans | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 52:09 |
| 76 | MOSCON Gianni | Soudal Quick-Step | + 54:20 |
| 77 | ABRAHAMSEN Jonas | Uno-X Mobility | + 54:20 |
| 78 | TRATNIK Jan | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 54:47 |
| 79 | WILLIAMS Stephen | Israel-Premier Tech | + 56:18 |
| 80 | GIBBONS Ryan | Lidl-Trek | + 57:22 |
| 81 | POELS Wout | Bahrain Victorious | + 57:23 |
| 82 | LUTSENKO Alexey | Astana Qazaqstan Team | + 58:14 |
| 83 | VAN DER POEL Mathieu | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 58:18 |
| 84 | VAUQUELIN Kévin | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 59:29 |
| 85 | LEMMEN Bart | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 01:00:15 |
| 86 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Intermarché-Wanty | + 01:01:53 |
| 87 | LAURANCE Axel | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 01:02:17 |
| 88 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 01:02:28 |
| 89 | IZAGIRRE Ion | Cofidis | + 01:02:54 |
| 90 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | INEOS Grenadiers | + 01:03:18 |
| 91 | MÜHLBERGER Gregor | Movistar Team | + 01:03:39 |
| 92 | SOBRERO Matteo | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 01:03:59 |
| 93 | CORT Magnus | Uno-X Mobility | + 01:04:33 |
| 94 | STUYVEN Jasper | Lidl-Trek | + 01:05:01 |
| 95 | VAN MOER Brent | Lotto Dstny | + 01:06:10 |
| 96 | QUINN Sean | EF Education-EasyPost | + 01:06:29 |
| 97 | GACHIGNARD Thomas | TotalEnergies | + 01:06:36 |
| 98 | WELLENS Tim | UAE Team Emirates | + 01:07:07 |
| 99 | GODON Dorian | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 01:07:18 |
| 100 | MOHORIC Matej | Bahrain Victorious | + 01:07:33 |
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