Milan wins Tour stage eight after bunch sprint
Stage eight resultsJonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) 3hrs 50mins 26secsWout van Aert (Bel/Visma-Lease a Bike) Same timeKaden Groves (Aus/Alpecin-Deceuninck) Pascal Ackermann (Ger/Israel-Premier Tech) Arnaud de Lie (Bel/Lotto)Tobias Lund Andresen (Den/Picnic-PostNL)Bryan Coquard (Fra/Cofidis)Alberto Dainese (Ita/Tudor Pro-cycling) Vincenzo Albanese (Ita/EF Education-EasyPost) Stian Fredheim (Nor/Uno-X Mobility)General classification after stage eightTadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Emirates-XRG) 25hrs 58mins 4secsRemco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal Quick-Step) +54secsKevin Vauquelin (Arkea-B&B Hotels) +1min 11secsJonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 17secsMathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) +1min 29secsMatteo Jorgenson (US/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 34secsOscar Onley (GB/Picnic PostNL) +2mins 49secsFlorian Lipowitz (Ger/Red Bull-Bora hansgrohe) +3mins 2secsPrimoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora hansgrohe) +3mins 6secsMattias Skjelmose (Den) +3mins 43secs
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