2021 Tour de France Stage 8 Results & Recap
Stage 8 of the 2021 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Teuns wins stage 8
Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Victorious) took a spectacular solo victory on the first mountain stage of the Tour de France, winning alone after spending the day in the breakaway. Ion Izagirre (Astana - Premier Tech) was second at 45 seconds and Michael Woods (Israel Start-up Nation) third at 49 seconds after 150km of wet and arduous roads.
"It has been super amazing. I have had a difficult year until now, as I had came short at every goal I had aimed at. Now I can finally celebrate. I want to dedicate this victory to my granddad, who passed away just before the Tour. His funeral was held only one week before the Tour. I was thinking of this during the last 10 kilometres: it has been very emotional for me.
It was not an easy stage tactic-wise. The beginning of the race was very stressful. It was very hard for a break to get up the road as there were almost 60 guys going for it. In our case, Wout Poels was going for the KOM jersey, riding aggressively, and that allowed me to just follow wheels. On the second-to-last climb, many riders set a strong pace from the bottom and it was very hard for me to follow them. But later I found the right pace and it got better for me. On the last climb I was afraid Pogacar might catch me."
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) crushed his GC contenders with an attack on the penultimate climb and kept picking off riders ahead until he caught Woods and Izaguirre on the top of the Colombiere. He's now in the yellow jersey after that incredible performance, 1'49" ahead of Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). Third is Alexey Lutsenko (Astana - Premier Tech) at 4'38".
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