Tour de France 2025 stage 8 preview – The sprinters return

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After a few days of a unique excitement for the yellow jersey, which found itself flip-flopped between Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), stage 8 of the Tour de France will offer the GC a moment of peace. It will also offer the sprinters a chance to seize the day.

There is just one category four climb en route to the finish in Laval in the form of the Côte de Nuillé-sur-Vicoin (0.9km at 3.8%), which comes with around 17km to go. That elevation and grade will prove too mild for even Pogačar’s most decisive attack, though it seems we can never say never.