Stage 8

The road

At the start

Bastille Day, flat to Amiens

Dylan Groenewegen broke the Gaviria–Sagan duopoly in the shadow of Chartres cathedral. Greg Van Avermaet keeps yellow six seconds up on Geraint Thomas, with Quick-Step still packing the top six. Today is 181 flat kilometres from Dreux to Amiens on the fourteenth of July — Arnaud Démare's home roads — and it is the last simple day before the cobbles.

How it was won

1. 191 km to go

   A doomed break

   Grellier and Minnaard build a six-minute lead, but with the sprinters' teams marshalling the bunch the escape is never a real threat.

2. 2At the line

   Groenewegen makes it two

   Groenewegen jumps perfectly in Amiens for a second win in as many days; Greipel and Gaviria cross behind him but are later relegated.

The result