Stage 8

The road

At the start

Yates's first full day in pink

Simon Yates wakes up in the maglia rosa with sixteen seconds on Tom Dumoulin and his own team-mate Esteban Chaves third at twenty-six. Today the race turns inland: 208 kilometres up the Tyrrhenian coast and then the long, steady drag to the sanctuary at Montevergine di Mercogliano — a gradient too gentle to break anybody, and just hard enough to sting.

How it was won

1. 114 km to go

   Mohorič jumps early

   Matej Mohorič attacks from the break with 13.5km to go on the long drag of Montevergine, shedding the last escapees but soon caught himself.

2. 27 km to go

   Geniez sparks the winning move

   As the break is swallowed late, Alexandre Geniez rides away in pursuit of lone leader Bouwman, and the counters begin to fly from the peloton.

3. 3At the line

   Carapaz makes history

   Richard Carapaz flies past inside the final kilometre to become the first Ecuadorian to win a Grand Tour stage, while Froome slides out on a wet hairpin and has to chase back.

The result