Huge triumph for Frenchman Nans Peters in the eighth stage of the 141-kilometer Tour de France, between Cazères and Loudenville, in the first Pyrenean stage
All-out war in the first Pyrenean stage of the Tour de France , with many focuses of attention and many conclusions to be drawn at the conclusion of the eighth day at the 'Grande Boucle' .
A stage that saw a great victory for Nans Peters , one of the thirteen members of the initial breakout, and that was especially tense on the last mountainous difficulty of the day, Col de Peyresourde (1st) on the legs of the young Tadej Pogacar , following previous work of the Jumbo-Visma, the team of Primoz Roglic , which in the end the Slovenian rider could not take advantage and other rivals.
Consolidated a flight that came to have up to 14 minutes of margin with respect to the peloton, two were the focus of attention in the race, knowing who of the escapees was going to reach the finish line first and who of the favorites was going to move first. After several attacks and after crowning Pyresourde with Zakarin , Peters would achieve a good income in the descent that would lead him to achieve a great victory in the Tour de France, which adds to those already achieved in the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta .
This is how Peters won
With the victory in the legs of the member of the AG2R , a team that experienced one of the scares of the day with the fall of Romain Bardet , attention was focused on the select group of favorites, where a real battle was going to take place, concentrated in the last 15 kilometers of the ascent to Peyresourde.
At 15 kilometers from the finish, the first to attack was Julian Alaphilippe , but his attack did not prosper, and a kilometer later the first of three attacks by Tadej Pogacar would arrive. Primoz Roglic and a combative Nairo Quintana jumped at the first , remembering the best version of the Colombian, with Egan Bernal without moving from the site and with Adam Yates keeping calm. Mikel Landa and Richie Porte - who has been a father while on the Tour - tried, although they were neutralized shortly after. Enric Mas suffered to follow the wheel of the strongest, and Landa was still in the group.
STAGE 8 OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE, IN PICTURES
When there were only 12 kilometers left, Pogacar, who had lost 1'20 the day before, launched what would be his third and final attack, which no one could follow. Cycling fans vibrated on the road and in their homes with the display of the 21-year-old Slovenian, who after his attack today sends a warning to his rivals that he also wants to appear in the final photo of the Tour in Paris.
The summary of stage 8 of the Tour
Romain Bardet tried to scratch Adam Yates for a few seconds at the end and thus snatch the yellow from him, but the British remained calm, on a day in which Carlos Verona was 3rd, in which Enric Mas closed, in which Egan Bernal showed worrying symptoms , in which Primoz Roglic puzzled a bit, in which Nairo Quintana put Colombia on its feet and in which Mike Landa recovered part of the difference lost in the seventh stage.
All this while waiting for the second Pyrenean day of the Tour, in which again a great day of cycling will be experienced.