Stage 8 - Andermatt-Andermatt 159.5 km

1 Gino Mader (Swi) Bahrain - Victorious 4:06:25
2 Michael Woods (Can) Israel Start-Up Nation 0:00
3 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck - Quick Step 0:09
4 Eddie Dunbar (Irl) INEOS Grenadiers 0:09
5 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers 0:09
6 Rui Costa (Por) UAE-Team Emirates 0:09
7 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education - Nippo 0:09
8 Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Team Qhubeka ASSOS 0:09
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana - Premier Tech 0:09
10 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 0:21


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+25 Joel Suter
+24 Johan Jacobs
+20 Remy Rochas
+20 Matteo Badilatti
+18 Maxim Van Gils
+18 Gavin Mannion
+17 Mathias Frank
+16 Rob Britton
+16 Alex Howes
+15 Szymon Sajnok

Biggest losers by position :
-25 Ruben Fernandez
-17 Mauri Vansevenant
-16 Wout Poels
-14 James Piccoli
-14 Stefan Bissegger
-11 Fred Wright
-10 Alexander Kamp
-10 Cristian Camilo Munoz
-9 Andreas Leknessund
-8 Dries Devenyns
-8 Julien Simon

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:19 Gino Mader
+0:15 Michael Woods
+0:04 Mattia Cattaneo

Biggest losers by time :
-25:09 Claudio Imhof
-25:09 Matteo Dal-Cin
-23:24 Alexander Kamp
-23:24 Andre Greipel
-23:24 Andreas Stokbro
-23:24 Connor Brown
-23:24 Cyrille Thiery
-23:24 Edward Theuns
-23:24 Hugo Hofstetter
-23:24 Jake Stewart
-23:24 Jelle Wallays

Favourites by position :
+6 Rohan Dennis
+3 Tom Dumoulin
+3 Matteo Fabbro
+2 Jakob Fuglsang
+1 Tiesj Benoot
+1 Domenico Pozzovivo
-16 Wout Poels

Favourites by time :
-0:12 Maximilian Schachmann
-1:04 Esteban Chaves
-3:10 Tiesj Benoot
-6:21 Matteo Fabbro
-7:32 Rohan Dennis
-11:11 Tom Dumoulin
-15:27 David De La Cruz
-19:09 Wout Poels

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Richard Carapaz 24:44:01 (unchanged)
2 Rigoberto Uran 0:17 (unchanged)
3 Jakob Fuglsang 1:15 (was 5th at 1:15)
4 Maximilian Schachmann 1:19 (was 4th at 1:07)
5 Michael Woods 2:55 (was 6th at 3:10)
6 Domenico Pozzovivo 3:16 (was 7th at 3:16)
7 Rui Costa 3:43 (was 9th at 3:43)
8 Sam Oomen 4:16 (was 8th at 3:39)
9 Mattia Cattaneo 4:39 (was 11th at 4:43)
10 Esteban Chaves 5:33 (was 10th at 4:29)
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15 Tiesj Benoot 9:22 (was 16th at 6:12)
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22 Matteo Fabbro 17:09 (was 25th at 10:48)
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31 Wout Poels 25:07 (was 15th at 5:58)
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37 Rohan Dennis 30:01 (was 43rd at 22:29)
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41 Tom Dumoulin 33:52 (was 44th at 22:41)
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66 David De La Cruz 49:32 (was 66th at 34:05)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Stefan Bissegger 21 (unchanged)
2 Mattia Cattaneo 20 (was 7th with 14 points)
3 Richard Carapaz 18 (was 2nd with 16 points)
4 Gino Mader 18 (was 18th with 6 points)
5 Stefan Kung 16 (was 8th with 12 points)
6 Claudio Imhof 16 (was 3rd with 16 points)
7 Michael Woods 15 (was 15th with 7 points)
8 Rigoberto Uran 14 (was 5th with 14 points)
9 Andreas Kron 14 (was 6th with 14 points)
10 Joey Rosskopf 12 (was 9th with 12 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Michael Woods 29 (was 11th with 9 points)
2 David De La Cruz 29 (was 4th with 15 points)
3 Sergio Samitier 29 (was 5th with 15 points)
4 Antonio Nibali 28 (was 1st with 20 points)
5 Wout Poels 24 (was 0 points)
6 Gino Mader 19 (was 24th with 4 points)
7 Rigoberto Uran 16 (was 3rd with 16 points)
8 Mattia Cattaneo 16 (was 17th with 6 points)
9 Gavin Mannion 14 (was 7th with 12 points)
10 Jakob Fuglsang 14 (was 13th with 8 points)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Team Jumbo-Visma 62:00:10 (was 2nd at 3:54)
2 Bahrain - Victorious 1:07 (was 4th at 7:50)
3 Astana - Premier Tech 1:51 (was 5th at 9:21)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 3:16 (was 6th at 11:19)
5 EF Education - Nippo 11:31 (was 7th at 14:41)
6 Deceuninck - Quick Step 14:45 (was 1st at 49:24:53)
7 UAE-Team Emirates 15:05 (was 9th at 15:37)
8 Team DSM 18:03 (was 8th at 15:27)
9 Team Total Direct Energie 18:05 (was 3rd at 7:35)
10 Movistar Team 18:47 (was 12th at 25:45)
11 BORA - hansgrohe 19:15 (was 10th at 18:02)
12 AG2R Citroen Team 33:00 (was 14th at 34:20)
13 Israel Start-Up Nation 35:44 (was 11th at 21:31)
14 Alpecin-Fenix 39:45 (was 13th at 32:51)
15 Team BikeExchange 43:20 (was 15th at 35:57)
16 Lotto Soudal 43:44 (was 17th at 37:35)
17 Team Qhubeka ASSOS 57:05 (was 18th at 46:27)
18 Trek - Segafredo 1:00:21 (was 16th at 36:28)
19 Groupama - FDJ 1:13:00 (was 19th at 50:10)
20 Rally Cycling 1:20:49 (was 20th at 1:12:50)
21 Cofidis, Solutions Credits 1:55:06 (was 21th at 1:21:50)
22 Switzerland 1:56:46 (was 22th at 1:36:55)

Retirements to date : Stage
Benjamin Thomas (Groupama - FDJ) 8 <<<
Fabian Lienhard (Groupama - FDJ) 8 <<<
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 8 <<<
Kyle Murphy (Rally Cycling) 8 <<<
Maciej Bodnar (BORA - hansgrohe) 8 <<<
Manuele Boaro (Astana - Premier Tech) 8 <<<
Nic Dlamini (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 8 <<<
Omar Fraile (Astana - Premier Tech) 8 <<<
Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg (Team Qhubeka ASSOS) 8 <<<
Sep Vanmarcke (Israel Start-Up Nation) 8 <<<
Tobias Ludvigsson (Groupama - FDJ) 8 <<<
Viktor Verschaeve (Lotto Soudal) 8 <<<
Yevgeniy Gidich (Astana - Premier Tech) 8 <<<
Alexis Vuillermoz (Team Total Direct Energie) 7
Ben Tulett (Alpecin-Fenix) 7
Christophe Laporte (Cofidis, Solutions Credits) 7
Filippo Conca (Lotto Soudal) 7
Otto Vergaerde (Alpecin-Fenix) 7
Alvaro Jose Hodeg (Deceuninck - Quick Step) 6
Amund Grondahl Jansen (Team BikeExchange) 6
Antonio Tiberi (Trek - Segafredo) 6
Jack Bauer (Team BikeExchange) 6
Lucas Hamilton (Team BikeExchange) 6
Luke Durbridge (Team BikeExchange) 6
Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Sebastian Langeveld (EF Education - Nippo) 6
Simon Pellaud (Switzerland) 6
Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE-Team Emirates) 5
Alexys Brunel (Groupama - FDJ) 4
Baptiste Planckaert (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Jan Hirt (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Lorenzo Rota (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Maurits Lammertink (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 4
Simone Petilli (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 4
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Total Direct Energie) 1
Total retirements : 37


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Stage 8 (ITT) - Vaduz-Vaduz 25.6 km

1 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 0:28:26
2 Geraint Thomas (GBr) INEOS Grenadiers 0:03
3 Stefan Kung (Swi) Groupama - FDJ 0:11
4 Daniel Felipe Martinez (Col) INEOS Grenadiers 0:28
5 Bob Jungels (Lux) AG2R Citroen Team 0:33
6 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) BORA - hansgrohe 0:39
7 Felix Grosschartner (Aut) BORA - hansgrohe 0:55
8 Neilson Powless (USA) EF Education-EasyPost 0:59
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Israel - Premier Tech 1:02
10 Dylan Van Baarle (Ned) INEOS Grenadiers 1:05


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+5 Tom Bohli
+5 Lorrenzo Manzin
+5 James Knox
+5 Adrien Petit
+4 Simon Vitzthum
+4 Robin Froidevaux
+4 Nico Denz
+4 Lewis Askey
+4 Jack Bauer
+4 Gianni Moscon

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Sebastien Reichenbach
-4 Domenico Pozzovivo
-3 Andreas Leknessund
-2 Andreas Kron
-2 Jose Herrada
-1 Sergio Higuita

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:05 Remco Evenepoel
+0:02 Geraint Thomas

Biggest losers by time :
-5:54 Albert Torres
-5:49 Matthew Holmes
-5:33 Keegan Swirbul
-4:40 Bryan Coquard
-4:38 Remy Rochas
-4:25 Adrien Petit
-4:21 Jose Herrada
-4:19 Matteo Badilatti
-3:50 Lewis Askey
-3:49 Antonio Nibali
-3:46 Baptiste Planckaert

Favourites by position :
+4 Daniel Felipe Martinez
+2 Remco Evenepoel
+2 Ion Izagirre
+1 Thibaut Pinot
+1 Maximilian Schachmann
+1 Geraint Thomas
-1 Sergio Higuita

Favourites by time :
+0:05 Remco Evenepoel
+0:02 Geraint Thomas
-0:23 Daniel Felipe Martinez
-0:34 Maximilian Schachmann
-0:57 Jakob Fuglsang
-1:12 Sergio Higuita
-1:20 Ion Izagirre
-1:34 Alexey Lutsenko
-1:35 Fausto Masnada
-2:09 Thibaut Pinot

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Geraint Thomas 33:07:09 (was 2nd at 0:02)
2 Sergio Higuita 1:12 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Jakob Fuglsang 1:16 (was 3rd at 0:19)
4 Neilson Powless 2:10 (was 4th at 1:16)
5 Stefan Kung 2:25 (was 7th at 2:19)
6 Bob Jungels 2:59 (was 8th at 2:31)
7 Felix Grosschartner 3:37 (was 9th at 2:47)
8 Daniel Felipe Martinez 3:39 (was 12th at 3:16)
9 Domenico Pozzovivo 3:42 (was 5th at 1:37)
10 Maximilian Schachmann 3:45 (was 11th at 3:11)
11 Remco Evenepoel 4:04 (was 13th at 4:09)
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14 Thibaut Pinot 6:49 (was 15th at 4:40)
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19 Alexey Lutsenko 12:03 (was 19th at 10:29)
20 Fausto Masnada 16:20 (was 20th at 14:45)
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34 Ion Izagirre 43:20 (was 36th at 42:00)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Michael Matthews 30 (unchanged)
2 Andreas Leknessund 20 (unchanged)
3 Quinn Simmons 18 (unchanged)
4 Geraint Thomas 18 (was 9th with 10 points)
5 Thibaut Pinot 13 (was 4th with 13 points)
6 Remco Evenepoel 12 (was 0 points)
7 Nico Denz 12 (was 5th with 12 points)
8 Matthew Holmes 12 (unchanged)
9 Maximilian Schachmann 10 (was 10th with 10 points)
10 Clement Champoussin 9 (was 11th with 9 points)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Quinn Simmons 60 (unchanged)
2 Fausto Masnada 31 (unchanged)
3 Thibaut Pinot 28 (unchanged)
4 Nico Denz 20 (unchanged)
5 Oscar Rodriguez 16 (unchanged)
6 Clement Champoussin 15 (unchanged)
7 Clement Berthet 14 (unchanged)
8 Philippe Gilbert 12 (unchanged)
9 Andreas Leknessund 10 (unchanged)
10 Alexander Kamp 10 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 BORA - hansgrohe 99:28:46 (was 2nd at 0:33)
2 Groupama - FDJ 1:07 (was 1st at 98:00:04)
3 AG2R Citroen Team 17:22 (was 3rd at 16:03)
4 INEOS Grenadiers 31:30 (was 4th at 33:18)
5 Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team 38:35 (was 6th at 37:47)
6 Israel - Premier Tech 39:22 (was 5th at 36:47)
7 Movistar Team 42:09 (was 7th at 37:47)
8 Cofidis 1:03:34 (was 8th at 58:26)
9 Lotto Soudal 1:18:05 (was 9th at 1:13:57)
10 Team DSM 1:27:56 (was 10th at 1:26:32)
11 Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux 1:43:56 (was 11th at 1:38:39)
12 Team BikeExchange - Jayco 2:06:54 (was 13th at 2:04:43)
13 Switzerland 2:07:16 (was 12th at 2:03:13)
14 Astana Qazaqstan Team 2:17:09 (was 15th at 2:14:58)
15 Trek - Segafredo 2:20:36 (was 14th at 2:14:55)
16 TotalEnergies 2:35:20 (was 16th at 2:30:49)
17 Human Powered Health 2:39:11 (was 17th at 2:36:06)

Retirements to date : Stage
Daryl Impey (Israel - Premier Tech) 8 <<<
Ilan Van Wilder (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 8 <<<
Larry Warbasse (AG2R Citroen Team) 8 <<<
Omar Fraile (INEOS Grenadiers) 8 <<<
Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) 8 <<<
Lukas Ruegg (Switzerland) 7
Luke Rowe (INEOS Grenadiers) 7
Marco Haller (BORA - hansgrohe) 7
Quentin Pacher (Groupama - FDJ) 7
Sander Armee (Cofidis) 7
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal) 7
Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) 6
Aleksandr Vlasov (BORA - hansgrohe) 6
Alessandro Covi (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Alex Aranburu (Movistar Team) 6
Anton Palzer (BORA - hansgrohe) 6
Claudio Imhof (Switzerland) 6
Diego Ulissi (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Edoardo Zambanini (Bahrain - Victorious) 6
Filip Maciejuk (Bahrain - Victorious) 6
Georg Zimmermann (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 6
Gianluca Brambilla (Trek - Segafredo) 6
Gonzalo Serrano (Movistar Team) 6
Hugh Carthy (EF Education-EasyPost) 6
Jimmy Janssens (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Joel Suter (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Johan Price-pejtersen (Bahrain - Victorious) 6
Kyle Murphy (Human Powered Health) 6
Louis Vervaeke (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 6
Maciej Bodnar (TotalEnergies) 6
Manuele Boaro (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 6
Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Matteo Trentin (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Reto Hollenstein (Israel - Premier Tech) 6
Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost) 6
Rui Costa (UAE Team Emirates) 6
Sebastian Berwick (Israel - Premier Tech) 6
Silvan Dillier (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Simone Petilli (Intermarche - Wanty - Gobert Materiaux) 6
Sjoerd Bax (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) 6
Stefano Oldani (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Stephen Williams (Bahrain - Victorious) 6
Thomas Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers) 6
Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Fenix) 6
Yukiya Arashiro (Bahrain - Victorious) 6
Adam Yates (INEOS Grenadiers) 5
Cameron Meyer (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 5
Casper Pedersen (Team DSM) 5
Cees Bol (Team DSM) 5
Damien Howson (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 5
Gino Mader (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain - Victorious) 5
Joey Rosskopf (Human Powered Health) 5
Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Fenix) 5
Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Otto Vergaerde (Trek - Segafredo) 5
Pascal Eenkhoorn (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Robert Gesink (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Rohan Dennis (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Sam Oomen (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Soren Kragh Andersen (Team DSM) 5
Timo Roosen (Jumbo-Visma) 5
Tom Scully (EF Education-EasyPost) 5
Yevgeniy Fedorov (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 5
Frederik Wandahl (BORA - hansgrohe) 4
Jan Maas (Team BikeExchange - Jayco) 4
Jay Vine (Alpecin-Fenix) 4
Kasper Asgreen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) 4
Thymen Arensman (Team DSM) 4
Davide Villella (Cofidis) 3
Kamil Malecki (Lotto Soudal) 3
Dario Cataldo (Trek - Segafredo) 2
Leonardo Basso (Astana Qazaqstan Team) 2
Ben King (Human Powered Health) 1
Total retirements : 77


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Stage 8 : St. Gallen > Abtwil (25.7 km)

1 Juan Ayuso (Spa) 0:32:25
2 Remco Evenepoel (Bel) 0:08
3 Mattias Skjelmose (Den) 0:09
4 Stefan Bissegger (Swi) 0:23
5 Wout Van Aert (Bel) 0:28
6 Kasper Asgreen (Den) 0:36
7 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) 0:39
8 Matteo Sobrero (Ita) 0:40
9 Finn Fisher-Black (Nzl) 0:42
10 Neilson Powless (USA) 0:46


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+7 Soren Kragh Andersen
+7 Samuel Watson
+6 Filippo Baroncini
+5 Kim Heiduk
+4 Pavel Bittner
+4 Maciej Bodnar
+4 Kasper Asgreen
+4 Alexis Renard
+3 Wout Van Aert
+3 Sean Flynn

Biggest losers by position :
-6 Felix Gall
-3 Gonzalo Serrano
-3 Jan Maas
-3 Mathis Le Berre
-2 Silvan Dillier
-1 Carl Fredrik Hagen
-1 Damien Howson
-1 Hugo Houle
-1 James Knox
-1 Johannes Adamietz
-1 Kristian Sbaragli

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:09 Juan Ayuso
+0:01 Remco Evenepoel

Biggest losers by time :
-5:48 Lorrenzo Manzin
-4:58 Jaakko Hanninen
-4:56 Mathis Le Berre
-4:52 Clement Venturini
-4:27 Michael Schwarzmann
-4:20 Kaden Groves
-4:12 Leonardo Basso
-4:08 Walter Calzoni
-4:07 Bert Van Lerberghe
-3:59 Sean Flynn
-3:58 Tim Merlier

Favourites by position :
+3 Wout Van Aert
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Sergio Higuita
+1 Romain Bardet
+1 Rigoberto Uran
+1 Remco Evenepoel
+1 Neilson Powless
+1 Juan Ayuso

Favourites by time :
+0:09 Juan Ayuso
+0:01 Remco Evenepoel
-0:19 Wout Van Aert
-0:37 Neilson Powless
-0:53 Wilco Kelderman
-0:53 Rigoberto Uran
-1:05 Ion Izagirre
-1:11 Maximilian Schachmann
-1:12 Romain Bardet
-1:51 Sergio Higuita

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Mattias Skjelmose 21:17:19 (unchanged)
2 Juan Ayuso 0:09 (was 3rd at 0:18)
3 Remco Evenepoel 0:45 (was 4th at 0:46)
4 Wilco Kelderman 2:09 (was 5th at 1:16)
5 Romain Bardet 2:41 (was 6th at 1:29)
6 Rigoberto Uran 2:47 (was 7th at 1:54)
7 Cian Uijtdebroeks 3:04 (was 8th at 1:57)
8 Felix Gall 3:25 (was 2nd at 0:08)
9 Dylan Teuns 4:29 (was 9th at 3:00)
10 Harold Tejada 4:57 (was 10th at 3:48)
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12 Ion Izagirre 7:12 (was 12th at 6:07)
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14 Maximilian Schachmann 8:10 (was 14th at 6:59)
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20 Neilson Powless 20:40 (was 21st at 20:03)
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31 Wout Van Aert 33:41 (was 34th at 33:22)
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43 Sergio Higuita 39:50 (was 44th at 37:59)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Wout Van Aert 52 (was 1st with 50 points)
2 Remco Evenepoel 40 (was 2nd with 32 points)
3 Mattias Skjelmose 32 (was 3rd with 26 points)
4 Juan Ayuso 30 (was 5th with 18 points)
5 Felix Gall 20 (was 4th with 20 points)
6 Quinten Hermans 10 (unchanged)
7 Stan Dewulf 10 (unchanged)
8 Kristian Sbaragli 9 (unchanged)
9 Cian Uijtdebroeks 6 (unchanged)
10 Michael Gogl 6 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Pascal Eenkhoorn 44 (unchanged)
2 Sergio Higuita 28 (unchanged)
3 Juan Ayuso 26 (unchanged)
4 Felix Gall 24 (unchanged)
5 Nickolas Zukowsky 17 (unchanged)
6 Wout Van Aert 16 (unchanged)
7 Wilco Kelderman 14 (unchanged)
8 Julien Bernard 13 (unchanged)
9 Mattias Skjelmose 12 (unchanged)
10 Silvan Dillier 12 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 AG2R Citroen Team 64:28:19 (was 1st at 62:43:15)
2 Israel - Premier Tech 2:35 (was 2nd at 4:34)
3 INEOS Grenadiers 5:22 (was 3rd at 9:32)
4 Team Jayco AlUla 6:19 (was 4th at 10:38)
5 BORA - hansgrohe 9:35 (was 5th at 12:48)
6 Groupama - FDJ 11:04 (was 6th at 14:31)
7 EF Education-EasyPost 14:58 (was 7th at 20:36)
8 Soudal - Quick Step 19:12 (was 9th at 25:38)
9 Trek - Segafredo 19:30 (was 8th at 24:37)
10 Jumbo-Visma 23:43 (was 10th at 28:13)
11 Team DSM 26:19 (was 11th at 29:35)
12 Movistar Team 31:25 (was 12th at 34:19)
13 UAE Team Emirates 33:23 (was 13th at 39:06)
14 Cofidis 47:33 (was 15th at 50:55)
15 Lotto Dstny 47:54 (was 14th at 47:07)
16 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 48:49 (was 16th at 50:56)
17 Astana Qazaqstan Team 1:15:11 (was 17th at 1:18:04)
18 Alpecin-Deceuninck 1:20:03 (was 19th at 1:22:13)
19 Team Arkea Samsic 1:20:41 (was 18th at 1:20:59)
20 TotalEnergies 1:57:07 (was 20th at 1:59:02)

Retirements to date : Stage
Bryan Coquard (Cofidis (WT)) 8 <<<
Jakob Fuglsang (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 8 <<<
Luca Mozzato (Team Arkea Samsic (WT)) 8 <<<
Adrien Petit (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Alexander Kamp (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Arnaud Demare (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 7
Arthur Kluckers (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Biniam Girmay (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Daniel McLay (Team Arkea Samsic (WT)) 7
Daryl Impey (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Dion Smith (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Dries De Pooter (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Filip Maciejuk (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Fran Miholjevic (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Jacob Eriksson (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Joel Suter (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Johan Price-Pejtersen (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Julius Van Den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost (WT)) 7
Krists Neilands (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 7
Lilian Calmejane (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Marc Hirschi (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 7
Matis Louvel (Team Arkea Samsic (WT)) 7
Mauro Schmid (Soudal - Quick Step (WT)) 7
Michael Schar (AG2R Citroen Team (WT)) 7
Mike Teunissen (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Miles Scotson (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 7
Nick Schultz (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Nikias Arndt (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 7
Quinn Simmons (Trek - Segafredo (WT)) 7
Rohan Dennis (Jumbo-Visma (WT)) 7
Roland Thalmann (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Rui Costa (Intermarche - Circus - Wanty (WT)) 7
Sebastien Reichenbach (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Stefan Kung (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 7
Sylvain Moniquet (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 7
Tom Scully (EF Education-EasyPost (WT)) 7
Yannis Voisard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
George Bennett (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 5
Gino Mader (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 5
Louis Barre (Team Arkea Samsic (WT)) 5
Magnus Sheffield (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 5
Marius Mayrhofer (Team DSM (WT)) 5
Mathias Norsgaard (Movistar Team (WT)) 5
Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 4
Cedric Beullens (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 4
Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates (WT)) 4
Vadim Pronskiy (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 4
Gianluca Brambilla (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 2
Total retirements : 51


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Stage 8 : Aigle > Villars-sur-Ollon (15.7 km)

1 Joao Almeida (Por) 33.23
2 Adam Yates (GBr) 0.08
3 Mattias Skjelmose (Den) 0.20
4 Matthew Riccitello (USA) 0.37
5 Thomas Pidcock (GBr) 0.50
6 Lenny Martinez (Fra) 0.55
7 Pelayo Sanchez (Spa) 1.21
8 David De La Cruz (Spa) 1.25
9 Egan Bernal (Col) 1.30
10 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) 1.40


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+6 Stephen Williams
+6 Oscar Riesebeek
+5 Nelson Oliveira
+5 Kamil Malecki
+5 Felix Engelhardt
+4 Salvatore Puccio
+4 Nicola Conci
+4 Michael Morkov
+4 Mark Cavendish
+4 Lenny Martinez

Biggest losers by position :
-7 Anders Foldager
-7 Marijn Van Den Berg
-6 Mauro Schmid
-5 Cedric Beullens
-5 Cian Uijtdebroeks
-5 Gil Gelders
-5 Rudy Molard
-4 Alexandre Balmer
-4 Arnaud De Lie
-4 Luc Wirtgen
-4 Roberto Carlos Gonzalez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:09 Joao Almeida

Biggest losers by time :
-8:09 Christoph Janssen
-8:01 Marijn Van Den Berg
-7:58 Samuel Watson
-7:57 Daniel Mclay
-7:55 Anders Foldager
-7:32 Michael Schwarzmann
-7:31 Felix Stehli
-7:27 Arne Marit
-7:25 Jan Stockli
-7:23 Fabian Lienhard
-7:19 Amund Grondahl Jansen

Favourites by position :
+3 Damiano Caruso
+1 Wilco Kelderman
+1 Thomas Pidcock
+1 Sergio Higuita
+1 Mattias Skjelmose
-1 Felix Gall
-1 Enric Mas
-5 Cian Uijtdebroeks

Favourites by time :
+0:09 Joao Almeida
-0:12 Mattias Skjelmose
-0:42 Thomas Pidcock
-1:32 Wilco Kelderman
-1:38 Enric Mas
-1:44 Damiano Caruso
-1:54 Felix Gall
-2:16 Sergio Higuita
-5:04 Stefan Kung
-5:27 Cian Uijtdebroeks

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Adam Yates 20:18:49 (unchanged)
2 Joao Almeida 0:22 (was 2nd at 0:31)
3 Mattias Skjelmose 3:02 (was 4th at 2:50)
4 Egan Bernal 3:12 (was 3rd at 1:51)
5 Matthew Riccitello 3:31 (was 5th at 3:02)
6 Thomas Pidcock 4:36 (was 7th at 3:54)
7 Enric Mas 5:01 (was 6th at 3:23)
8 Oscar Onley 5:40 (was 8th at 4:03)
9 Wilco Kelderman 6:31 (was 10th at 4:59)
10 Felix Gall 6:35 (was 9th at 4:41)
.....
12 Sergio Higuita 8:54 (was 13th at 6:38)
.....
35 Cian Uijtdebroeks 27:48 (was 30th at 22:21)
.....
63 Stefan Kung 47:43 (was 63rd at 42:39)
.....
71 Damiano Caruso 53:24 (was 74th at 51:40)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Adam Yates 48 (was 1st with 40 points)
2 Joao Almeida 48 (was 2nd with 36 points)
3 Johannes Staune-Mittet 20 (unchanged)
4 Mattias Skjelmose 20 (was 7th with 14 points)
5 Michael Matthews 18 (unchanged)
6 Stefan Bissegger 18 (unchanged)
7 Matthew Riccitello 14 (was 14th with 10 points)
8 Torstein Traen 12 (was 9th with 12 points)
9 Thibau Nys 12 (was 8th with 12 points)
10 Yves Lampaert 12 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Adam Yates 47 (unchanged)
2 Egan Bernal 27 (unchanged)
3 Joao Almeida 23 (unchanged)
4 Alexey Lutsenko 19 (unchanged)
5 Torstein Traen 18 (unchanged)
6 Maxim Van Gils 16 (unchanged)
7 Johannes Staune-Mittet 10 (unchanged)
8 Gerben Kuypers 10 (unchanged)
9 Luca Jenni 10 (unchanged)
10 Mattias Skjelmose 10 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 UAE Team Emirates 61:06:02 (was 1st at 59:22:48)
2 INEOS Grenadiers 10:41 (was 2nd at 8:49)
3 Movistar Team 21:28 (was 3rd at 19:00)
4 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 24:50 (was 4th at 21:19)
5 Israel - Premier Tech 37:39 (was 5th at 34:41)
6 Lidl - Trek 43:59 (was 6th at 39:43)
7 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 45:30 (was 7th at 40:03)
8 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 46:24 (was 8th at 42:44)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 48:43 (was 9th at 43:26)
10 Team dsm-firmenich PostNL 52:44 (was 10th at 48:59)
11 BORA - hansgrohe 1:03:03 (was 11th at 55:25)
12 Groupama - FDJ 1:06:54 (was 12th at 59:12)
13 EF Education - EasyPost 1:07:48 (was 13th at 1:00:05)
14 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 1:11:37 (was 14th at 1:00:46)
15 Cofidis 1:33:51 (was 15th at 1:25:37)
16 Soudal Quick-Step 1:35:21 (was 16th at 1:26:41)
17 Arkea - B&B Hotels 1:37:29 (was 17th at 1:31:41)
18 Team Jayco AlUla 1:46:40 (was 18th at 1:40:06)
19 Lotto Dstny 1:54:53 (was 19th at 1:47:54)
20 Intermarche - Wanty 2:05:14 (was 20th at 1:55:30)
21 Astana Qazaqstan Team 2:08:02 (was 21th at 2:02:19)
22 Alpecin - Deceuninck 2:12:13 (was 22th at 2:04:38)
23 Team Corratec - Vini Fantini 2:45:44 (was 23th at 2:31:09)
24 Swiss Cycling 3:53:55 (was 24th at 3:41:52)

Retirements to date : Stage
Bryan Coquard (Cofidis (WT)) 8 <<<
Jordi Meeus (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 8 <<<
Ion Izagirre (Cofidis (WT)) 7
Jake Stewart (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Samuele Battistella (Astana Qazaqstan Team (WT)) 7
Yannis Voisard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Georg Steinhauser (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 6
Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 6
Sebastien Reichenbach (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 6
Alberto Bettiol (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 5
Fran Miholjevic (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 5
Jacopo Guarnieri (Lotto Dstny (PRT)) 5
Jordi Warlop (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 5
Lawson Craddock (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 5
Lilian Calmejane (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 5
Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost (WT)) 5
Stan Van Tricht (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 5
Antoine Aebi (Swiss Cycling (NAT)) 4
Bauke Mollema (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 4
Timo Kielich (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 4
Nairo Quintana (Movistar Team (WT)) 3
Emanuel Buchmann (BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
Fausto Masnada (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 2
Kevin Colleoni (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 2
Total retirements : 24


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Stage 8 : Beckenried > Stockhutte (10 km)

1 Joao Almeida (Por) 27.33
2 Felix Gall (Aut) 0.24
3 Oscar Onley (GBr) 1.11
4 Kevin Vauquelin (Fra) 1.40
5 Harry Sweeny (Aus) 1.54
6 Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) 2.03
7 Ben O'Connor (Aus) 2.06
8 Will Barta (USA) 2.12
9 Finlay Pickering (GBr) 2.14
10 Ilan Van Wilder (Bel) 2.19


Changes in GC, stage 8 compared to stage 7 :

Biggest gainers by position :
+8 Samuele Battistella
+5 Vincenzo Albanese
+5 Vegard Stake Laengen
+5 Sylvain Moniquet
+5 Stefan Bissegger
+5 Sebastien Grignard
+5 Pavel Bittner
+5 Olivier Le Gac
+5 Julius Johansen
+5 Jimmy Janssens

Biggest losers by position :
-3 Martin Tjotta
-2 Ben Swift
-2 Julian Alaphilippe
-2 Matej Mohoric
-1 Bart Lemmen
-1 Ewen Costiou
-1 Georg Zimmermann
-1 George Bennett
-1 Hugo Houle
-1 Jan Maas
-1 Juan Pedro Lopez

Biggest gainers by time :
+0:33 Joao Almeida
+0:08 Felix Gall

Biggest losers by time :
-7:26 Max Walker
-7:23 Patrick Gamper
-7:22 Martin Tjotta
-7:17 Jasper De Buyst
-7:14 Luc Wirtgen
-7:03 Arnaud De Lie
-6:57 Eddy Le Huitouze
-6:57 Sean Flynn
-6:49 Olivier Le Gac
-6:48 Danny Van Poppel
-6:46 Ayco Bastiaens

Favourites by position :
+3 Pello Bilbao
+2 Aleksandr Vlasov
+1 Joao Almeida
+1 Ion Izagirre
+1 Ilan Van Wilder
+1 Felix Gall
-1 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-2 Matej Mohoric

Favourites by time :
+0:33 Joao Almeida
+0:08 Felix Gall
-1:31 Aleksandr Vlasov
-1:34 Ben O'Connor
-1:46 Ilan Van Wilder
-1:53 Lennard Kamna
-1:55 Pello Bilbao
-2:41 Neilson Powless
-2:59 Ion Izagirre
-5:10 Stefan Kung
-5:24 Tao Geoghegan Hart
-6:00 Matej Mohoric

Top 10 and favourites GC standings (previous stage in parens) :
1 Joao Almeida 29:29:01 (was 2nd at 0:33)
2 Kevin Vauquelin 1:07 (was 1st at 0:00)
3 Oscar Onley 1:58 (was 4th at 1:19)
4 Felix Gall 2:20 (was 5th at 2:28)
5 Julian Alaphilippe 3:57 (was 3rd at 0:41)
6 Lennard Kamna 4:52 (was 6th at 2:59)
7 Ben O'Connor 5:08 (was 7th at 3:34)
8 Ilan Van Wilder 6:16 (was 9th at 4:30)
9 Pablo Castrillo 6:41 (was 8th at 4:27)
10 Clement Champoussin 8:30 (was 10th at 6:07)
.....
21 Aleksandr Vlasov 28:14 (was 23rd at 26:43)
.....
25 Tao Geoghegan Hart 35:17 (was 24th at 29:53)
.....
38 Neilson Powless 49:36 (was 38th at 46:55)
.....
52 Ion Izagirre 1:01:33 (was 53rd at 58:34)
.....
57 Pello Bilbao 1:04:59 (was 60th at 1:03:04)
58 Stefan Kung 1:07:14 (was 58th at 1:02:04)
.....
63 Matej Mohoric 1:09:32 (was 61st at 1:03:32)

Top 10 on Points table with previous in parens:
1 Joao Almeida 58 (was 1st with 46 points)
2 Oscar Onley 44 (was 2nd with 38 points)
3 Kevin Vauquelin 28 (was 3rd with 24 points)
4 Romain Gregoire 22 (unchanged)
5 Felix Gall 18 (was 9th with 10 points)
6 Quinn Simmons 16 (was 5th with 16 points)
7 Vincenzo Albanese 12 (was 6th with 12 points)
8 Lewis Askey 12 (was 7th with 12 points)
9 Aleksandr Vlasov 10 (was 8th with 10 points)
10 Ben O'Connor 8 (unchanged)

Top 10 on Mountains table with previous in parens:
1 Aleksandr Vlasov 45 (unchanged)
2 Joao Almeida 29 (unchanged)
3 Mauro Schmid 24 (unchanged)
4 Oscar Onley 23 (unchanged)
5 Pello Bilbao 23 (unchanged)
6 Kevin Vauquelin 17 (unchanged)
7 Felix Engelhardt 15 (unchanged)
8 Quinn Simmons 13 (unchanged)
9 Felix Gall 13 (unchanged)
10 Neilson Powless 12 (unchanged)

Teams table with previous in parens:
1 Israel - Premier Tech 89:05:10 (was 1st at 87:31:13)
2 UAE Team Emirates - XRG 11:41 (was 2nd at 17:34)
3 Lidl - Trek 20:03 (was 3rd at 20:22)
4 Movistar Team 27:27 (was 4th at 30:21)
5 Team Picnic PostNL 27:52 (was 5th at 32:00)
6 XDS Astana Team 48:39 (was 6th at 49:00)
7 Team Visma | Lease a Bike 50:36 (was 7th at 52:25)
8 Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team 52:34 (was 8th at 57:58)
9 Bahrain - Victorious 58:20 (was 9th at 1:01:48)
10 Soudal Quick-Step 1:11:47 (was 10th at 1:13:13)
11 Arkea - B&B Hotels 1:13:38 (was 11th at 1:13:14)
12 Groupama - FDJ 1:22:26 (was 12th at 1:20:35)
13 Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe 1:26:17 (was 13th at 1:25:19)
14 INEOS Grenadiers 1:28:23 (was 14th at 1:29:52)
15 Team Jayco AlUla 1:29:39 (was 16th at 1:31:42)
16 Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team 1:32:17 (was 15th at 1:30:19)
17 Intermarche - Wanty 1:35:44 (was 18th at 1:33:58)
18 Tudor Pro Cycling Team 1:37:40 (was 17th at 1:33:00)
19 Cofidis 1:41:05 (was 19th at 1:42:10)
20 Alpecin - Deceuninck 1:59:59 (was 20th at 2:01:09)
21 Lotto 2:25:59 (was 21th at 2:23:57)
22 EF Education - EasyPost 2:43:00 (was 22th at 2:45:05)

Retirements to date : Stage
Alex Edmondson (Team Picnic PostNL (WT)) 8 <<<
Fabio Van Den Bossche (Alpecin - Deceuninck (WT)) 8 <<<
Marc Hirschi (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 8 <<<
Marco Haller (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 8 <<<
Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates - XRG (WT)) 8 <<<
Albert Torres (Movistar Team (WT)) 7
Andrea Bagioli (Lidl - Trek (WT)) 7
Jasha Sutterlin (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 7
Jordi Meeus (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 7
Matthew Riccitello (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Petr Kelemen (Tudor Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Roger Adria (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 7
Simon Clarke (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 7
Sjoerd Bax (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 7
Steven Kruijswijk (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 7
Alessandro Verre (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 6
Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates - XRG (WT)) 6
Nolann Mahoudo (Cofidis (WT)) 6
Roel Van Sintmaartensdijk (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 6
David De La Cruz (Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (PRT)) 5
Kevin Colleoni (Intermarche - Wanty (WT)) 5
Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 4
Laurens De Plus (INEOS Grenadiers (WT)) 4
Michael Woods (Israel - Premier Tech (PRT)) 4
Pelayo Sanchez (Movistar Team (WT)) 4
James Knox (Soudal Quick-Step (WT)) 3
Laurens Huys (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 3
Menno Huising (Team Visma | Lease a Bike (WT)) 3
Anton Palzer (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (WT)) 2
Filippo Zana (Team Jayco AlUla (WT)) 2
Max Van Der Meulen (Bahrain - Victorious (WT)) 2
Benoit Cosnefroy (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (WT)) 1
Elie Gesbert (Arkea - B&B Hotels (WT)) 1
Johan Jacobs (Groupama - FDJ (WT)) 1
Total retirements : 34


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