Stage 8: Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises – 183.4 km
Date: Saturday July 6, 2024
Streaming: 🇺🇸 Peacock/🇨🇦 FloBikes/🇬🇧 Discovery+/ITV/🇪🇺 Eurosport/🇦🇺 SBS
Estimated finish time: 🇺🇸🇨🇦 11:30 am EDT/🇬🇧 4:30 pm BST/🇪🇺 5:30 pm CEST/🇦🇺 1:30 am AEST
Stage type: Flat
Summary: There aren’t any individually hard climbs on the docket for stage 8 but the up-and-down route could give the break a chance. Look for the Classics specialists to try their luck up the road, and for the sprinters’ teams to try to bring it all back. A slightly uphill finish will favor the more versatile sprinters in the end.
Fantasy favorites: This will be even tougher to predict than the other sprinter-friendly stages so far in the Tour (and consistent favorite Jasper Philipsen hasn't won any of them, so clearly they weren't easy to predict either). Philipsen is again a favorite here, but Arnaud de Lie may be an even better pick on this finish. Mads Pedersen, Wout van Aert, Biniam Girmay, and Philipsen's teammate Mathieu van der Poel also look like good bets for this sort of stage. Mark Cavendish and Dylan Groenewegen can't be counted out either, and it's always possible that a break could stay clear, giving someone like Magnus Cort a chance.
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