Tour De France 2018 Stage 8

Dylan Groenewegen won his second Tour de France stage in as many days with another powerful sprint in Amiens.

The LottoNL-Jumbo rider kicked from deep to beat Andre Greipel and Fernando Gaviria, who were both later relegated after separate clashes.

That moved Peter Sagan up to second, with John Degenkolb third and Britain's Mark Cavendish eighth.

Team Sky's Geraint Thomas remains second overall but is now seven seconds behind yellow jersey Greg van Avermaet.

The Belgian BMC rider attacked off the front of the peloton to take a bonus second with just over 20km of the 181km stage from Dreux remaining.

Four-time winner Chris Froome is up to 12th, one minute six seconds down on Van Avermaet, after overtaking fellow Briton Adam Yates because of better aggregate stage placings.

But Yates remains 13th after Quick-Step Floors' Julian Alaphilippe, who started the day fourth, was caught in a late crash and dropped out of the top 10.

Ireland's Dan Martin, who won stage six, fell heavily in that crash with just over 15km to go and lost one minute 16 seconds to drop to 31st overall.

The UAE Team Emirates leader suffered a cut on his elbow but an X-ray later confirmed he had not broken any bones.


Stage eight result

1. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/LottoNL-Jumbo) 4hrs 23mins 36secs
2. Andre Greipel (Ger/Lotto-Soudal) same time
3. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Quick-Step Floors)
4. Peter Sagan (Svk/Bora-Hansgrohe)
5. John Degenkolb (Ger/Trek-Segafredo)
6. Alexander Kristoff (Nor/Team UAE Emirates)
7. Arnaud Demare (Fra/Groupama-FDJ)
8. Thomas Boudat (Fra/Direct Energie)
9. Nikias Arndt (Ger/Sunweb)
10. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Dimension Data)

General classification after stage eight

1. Greg van Avermaet (Bel/BMC Racing) 32hrs 43mins 00secs
2. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +7secs
3. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +9secs
4. Philippe Gilbert (Bel/Quick-Step Floors) +16secs
5. Bob Jungels (Lux/Quick-Step Floors) +22secs
6. Rigoberto Uran (Col/EF Education First) +49secs
7. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +55secs
8. Rafal Majka (Pol/Bora-Hansgrohe) +56secs
9. Jakob Fuglsang (Den/Astana) +57secs
10. Richie Porte (Aus/BMC Racing) same time

Selected:

12. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +1min 6secs
13. Adam Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott) same time