Well, good morning everyone! We're live for this, stage eight of the Tour de France. We're on our way to Amiens, with a mere 180km standing between the peloton and the finish line. It should be one for the sprinters again, barring any breakaway heroics.
Tour de France
Stage 8 | Flat | Men | 14.07.2018
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Updated 14/07/2018 at 14:21 GMT
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Cavendish got into the top ten again there.
Dan Martin crossed the line about 1'15" down on the sprinters. That's a huge, huge blow for his hopes of GC.
Sagan eventually took fourth, with Degenkolb, then Kristoff filling out the top six
Greipel was second there, with Gaviria in third
The Dutchman was by far the fastest in that finish.
Sagan went way too early today and made it easy for Groenewegen
Dylan Groenewegen comes from deep and takes it!
Sagan leads
Richeze lights it up
This is chaos
Greipel pushes Theuns off his teammates wheel.
Degenkolb is well placed in P5, while Cavendish is sitting on Demare's wheel
Lotto hit the front but Greipel has lost the wheel
2km
Gilbert is still just ahead of the peloton.
The Belgian classics man tries to outrun the peloton, but DiData are on him.
3km
Gilbert attacks!
3.2km
They're going downhill now ahead of this technical finish.
Martin has burned all but one of his teammates trying to get back and it's going to be in vain.
Agonising for Martin. He can see the peloton. The time gap is 40 seconds now
The peloton is really lined out at the tail and they are hammering it along now.
5km
We're hearing that Martin has almost regained contact with the peloton!