A pan-flat day at the Tour de France delivered the expected as Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) led the peloton home in a mass sprint to win stage 8 in Laval.

Analysis of the eighth stage of the 2025 Tour de France, which took the peloton from Saint-Meen-le-Grand to Laval

Stage 8 route and updates with sprinters set to battle in Laval - With Tadej Pogacar back in yellow, attention now turns to the fast men of the peloton

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 8 of the 2025 Tour de France!

Jonathan Milan won stage eight of the Tour de France in a mass bunch sprint on Saturday ahead of Wout van Aert and Kaden Groves. Pure sprinter Milan, 24, took over the top of the sprint points rankings and had been wearing the green tunic in place of Tadej Pogacar,

A mostly flat first week started from Lille and stayed in cycling-mad northern France for three stages. The peloton then headed south, via Brittany and the mountainous Massif Central region. This is a photo gallery from the first week of the race as curated by AP photo editors.

Less than a week after the Tour de France began, world champion Tadej Pogacar secured a second stage win at the top of a challenging climb and

Instead, it was his Classics rival Pogacar who distanced him, with team UAE Emirates-XRG setting an infernal pace up the final slope to whittle the field down to a select group of climbers, including Remco Evenepoel, local boy Kevin Vauquelin, and Briton Oscar Onley, who ultimately finished third.

A group of promising cyclists have settled in a former farmhouse in the French village of Gomené as part of the International Cycling Union's Africa 2025 project, which aims to prepare for the Road World Championships in Rwanda in September.