Chateauroux, July 13 -- 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, which he will now inherit properly after borrowing it from race leader Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates-XRG), who led the points classification overnight.

It came from a false flat final kilometre, at the end of a stage that offered little in terms of action for the vast majority of its 176km distance. It nevertheless finished with a ferocious intensity to deliver Milan's first-ever Tour de France victory, and Italy's first male Tour de France stage winner since Vincenzo Nibali in 2019.

The first of two consecutive...