The defending champion claimed his second stage of this year’s race and overhauled Mathieu van der Poel in the overall standings

Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) crushed his sprint rivals to take a brilliant win on Stage 8 at the Tour de France. The Italian comfortably held off Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) to win in the green jersey,

Pogacar and Van der Poel have exactly the same overall time of 16 hours, 46 minutes after four stages, and count one stage win each, but Van der Poel kept the yellow jersey because of better finishing positions in the other two stages.

Ben Healy dethrones Tadej Pogacar to take yellow jersey as Simon Yates wins stage 10 at Tour de France - A monster Bastille Day stage through the Massif Central delivered the fireworks as UAE Team Emi

Almost everyone thought that Tadej Pogacar would go into the rest day wearing the yellow jersey. After nine days of tough racing, that is not the case, but the world champion can indeed speak of a kind of pole position in the GC.

Tadej Pogacar may be concentrating intensely on winning his fourth Tour de France, but in the middle of Saturday's stage eight he was just as focused on how his partner Urska Zigart was performing in the Giro d'Italia Women.

Tour de France heads into Brittany to pay a visit to the scene of a memorable win from four years ago, as the Mur de Bretagne returns to La Grande Boucle.Starting in stunning Saint-Malo, the peloton will travel 194km inland along yet more bumpy terrain - the hallmark of this opening week - to finish in Guerledan.

There were no time gaps in stage 10 of the Tour de France, but one thing was clear: in the decisive final stretch, Tadej Pogacar had no teammates left to support him, while Visma | Lease a Bike still had both Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss protecting Jonas Vingegaard.