As it happened: UAE Team Emirates round out Tour de Suisse with another 1-2 in mountain time trial

That wraps things up for Cyclingnews‘ live coverage of the men’s Tour de Suisse but make sure to catch up with the women’s race in Switzerland with two stages still to come in that race. 

I’ll leave you with a picture of overall winner Adam Yates and his dog Zoe, who will both be headed to the Tour de France later this month. Men’s WorldTour racing will resume at the Tour as cycling in 2024 reaches its pinnacle with the biggest race of the season. Suisse and Dauphiné are over, and these just 13 days of preparation left to come.

Make sure to read our full stage report and check out our gallery from a stunning stage in Switzerland:

Adam Yates wins Tour de Suisse, UAE Team Emirates teammate João Almeida victorious in stage 8 time trial

2024 Tour de Suisse winner Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) with the very large trophy.

Here’s what overall winner Adam Yates had to say after the stage:

“It’s definitely up there. About two days to go, I wasn’t sure if I could do it. Obviously, I had the two time check with João in front of me and I knew he was going to accelerate a little bit there in the end. Actually, I just couldn’t accelerate, I was already over the limit so I just tried to hold the pace and thankfully it was enough,” said Yates as tried to catch his breath.

“I’m still out of breath because it was such a hard climb but one thing I had in the back of my mind for a while was the 2019 Tirreno-Adriatioc where I lost the TT on the last day by one second and this had lived rent-free in my head for many years so it’s finally good to win a race and win it with a TT like this.”

This is a big GC win for Yates, adding to overall successes from Catalunya, the UAE and Romandie, but after a heavy crash and concussion at this year’s UAE Tour, he wasn’t sure if he’d be in this kind of shape already ahead of the Tour.

“I wouldn’t say sweeter but when I crashed at the time, I didn’t know how long it would take me to come back and luckily it wasn’t a super long time and I’m grateful for that,” Yates said. “To win any big bike race is a big privilege and to share the podium with Joao as well, he’s a special teammate.”

Here’s a look at the final GC courtesy of FirstCycling, with Mattias Skjelmose…