Tour De France 2025: Stage Eight, From Saint-méen-le-grand To Laval – Live

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Stage eight: Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Laval, 171km

Here’s a look astatine today’s stage, Saturday 12 July: Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Laval, 171.4km, pinch William Fotheringham’s preview:

The commencement tips its chapeau to nan triple victor Louison Bobet, nan baker’s boy from Saint Méen, past nan way heads east; if nan prevailing upwind – westerly – does its thing, this will beryllium very fast, but nan script is good trodden: early doomed break featuring lowly French teams shouted connected by nan section crowd – deliberation Arkéa, Cofidis, Total Energies – and a sprint decorativeness for Philipsen and institution aft 5 days’ waiting.

The preview was written earlier nan Tour, truthful Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won’t beryllium successful nan operation coming aft having to withdaw from nan title connected shape three. It’ll beryllium a time for nan sprinters though, truthful support an oculus retired for Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick-Step).

Preamble

After a bid of hilly stages complete nan past mates of days, nan peloton will caput retired coming connected a 171.4km level way from Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Laval, pinch an elevation summation of 1,700m. There’s only 1 climb, nan class 4 Côte de Nuillé sur Vicoin, coming 16km earlier nan finish. It’s a short climb astatine 900m pinch an mean gradient of 3.8% truthful it shouldn’t beryllium a problem for nan sprinters who will beryllium eyeing up a shape triumph today.

With that successful mind, sprinters specified arsenic Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) and Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick-Step) are expected to beryllium successful nan mix, but location could besides beryllium a astonishment from lesser known names. I’ll besides beryllium keeping an oculus retired to spot really Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) tackle that short climb earlier nan finish. As always, I’d emotion to perceive your predictions truthful please do email them to me.

The peloton are scheduled to rotation retired astatine 1.10pm CEST (12.10am BST) and nan decorativeness is estimated to beryllium astatine astir 5.04pm CEST (4.04pm BST).

If you want to drawback up connected yesterday’s shape first, present is Jeremy Whittle’s shape 7 title study from Mûr-de-Bretagne:

And a refresher of who’s who and nan teams competing successful this year’s Tour: