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Live report recap: Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 - Stage 8
Critérium du Dauphiné - Stage 8
It's the final stage of the 2025 edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné! The stage takes the riders on a 133.8 km stage from Val-d'Arc to Plateau du Mont-Cenis, taking in 3375 metres of elevation on the stage. The parcours appears to be tailor made to the breakaway, but will Tadej Pogacar feel hungry for more success at this years Dauphiné? The stage will begin 13:30 CET with the finish at approximately 17:00 CET.
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133.1 km
3375 metres of elevation
6 categorised climbs
1 intermediate sprint
Official start at 13:30 CET
Expected finish around 17:00 CET
Results and standings ahead of stage 8
The jersey holders
Yellow jersey: Tadej Pogacar
White jersey: Florian Lipowitz
Green jersey: Tadej Pogacar
Polka-dot jersey: Tadej Pogacar
Merci Romain!
Refresh your memory
The Domestique stage report from stage 7: Tadej Pogacar soars again at Valmeinier 1800 to dominate Critérium du Dauphiné stage 7
Florian Lipowitz's post-stage reaction from stage 7
Remco Evenepoel's post-stage reaction from stage 7
Tadej Pogacar's post-stage 7 thoughts
Pre-stage interviews coming up
Interviews will be with us shortly!
Eddie Dunbar - Pre-stage 8 thoughts
Live images
Live images will be available from 15:10 CET today. If you require more information on How to watch the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné: TV schedule, live worldwide streaming.
A number of races on today
A vast number of races are in store today, we will keep you updated on them!
Ben Healy pre-stage 8 interview
Underway soon
One hour before the official start!
Teamwork!
Tobias Halland Johannessen - Pre-stage 8 interview
Remco Evenepoel - Pre- stage 8 interview
Jonas Vingegaard - Pre-stage 8 interview
Tour de Suisse Women stage 4 has just finished
Underway shortly
The neutral start is about to commence.
Tadej Pogacar - Pre-stage 8 interview
Neutral start underway
Here we go with the neutral start!
Stage underway!
The stage is underway! 132 km to go.
A fitting send off
Nothing happening so far
A slow burner today, no attacks so far with 127 km to go.
Inspiring the next generation
A guard of honour
Still all together
With 120 km to go it's still all together!
An attack
Healy, Kuss, Lutsenko, Van Gils, L.Martinez, V.Paret-Peintre, I. Romeo, Armirail and Mas are up the road with a small gap.
Riders bridge across
Van der Poel and Jegat join the breakaway! A group of 10 up the road. 114 km to go.
Jegat was caught
The Frenchmean was close but his attack came to no avail.
More riders bridge
Stewart and Foss join the cohort at the front of the race.
The gap
The group up the front have an advantage of 45" and growing.
A minute advantage
The gap increases to over a minute now!
The breakaway of the day has been established
Healy, Kuss, Lutsenko, Van Gils, L.Martinez, V.Paret-Peintre, I. Romeo, Armirail, Mas, Stewart, Van der Poel and Foss are up the road with 96 km to go and their gap is 2'50" ovee the breakaway.
The next climb of the day
The cat.1 Col de Beaune (6.6 km at 6.8%) is up next in just under 30 kilometres time.
Abandon
Émilien Jeannière (TotalEnergies) has abandoned the race.
In the peloton
Uno-X Molbilty are pulling the peloton as to defend their GC position as Enric Mas is a danger to Tobias Halland Johannessen in the GC.
About to go climbing
The Col de Beaune (6.6 km at 6.8%) is about to begin!
The views
Abandon
Ludovic Robeet (Cofidis) abandons the race.
Abandon
Archie Ryan (EF Education -EasyPost) has abandoned the race.
The situation
A group of 11 up the road: Healy, Kuss, Lutsenko, Van Gils, L.Martinez, V.Paret-Peintre, I. Romeo, Armirail, Mas,Van der Poel and Foss. 66 km to go with 2'15" the gap with the peloton being lead by Uno-X Mobility.
Van der Poel pictured driving the breakaway
The peloton bring led by Uno-X Mobility earlier, with Norwegian champion, Markus Hoelgaard on the front
Van der Poel regains the lead in the green jersey standings
He wins the intermediate sprint of the day and overtakes Tadej Pogacar in the standings!
Live images
They have arrived with 54 km to go.
50 KM TO GO
Gap goes out to 3'01".
Still the peloton is lead by Uno-X Mobility
The gap is 2'40" between the peloton and the breakaway!
Van der Poel on the offensive
He is flying all alone with a 52" gap over a group of 10 chasers!
Van der Poel all alone
On to the Côte d'Aussois
The cat.2 Côte d'Aussois (6.3 km at 6.2%) is what the riders are on currently. 35 km to go.
Earlier on
Domen Novak abandoned the stage.
Still Uno-X Mobility control
The gap sits at 2'36" to Van der Poel.
Some sketchy moments
The surface of some of these corners have been dodgy!
25 KM TO TO GO
The gap is now starting to tumble. Van der Poel has a 48" gap over the chasers and 2'14" over the peloton.
20 KM TO GO
Would be some effort if Van der Poel was to win here, his chances are fading.
Gap tumbling
The peloton is making up ground, still lead by Uno-X Mobility! The gap to Van der Poel is 1'57, the chases are 23" behind Van der Poel.
Van der Poel drops off
He is about to be caught by the chasers with 16 km to go.
The gap
The chasers are 1'30" ahead of the peloton with the Col du Mont-Cenis (9.6 km at 6.9%) approaching.
Ivan Romeo dropped
He goes absolutely all in for his teammate Enric Mas!
A change of guard
UAE Team Emirates - XRG take control of the peloton.
Onto the Col du Mont-Cenis (9.6 km at 6.9%)
The gap is being shredded to the front of the race, now under a minute!
The gap goes back out
It extends now to 1'20.
Enric Mas attack
He launches a brillaint attack!
On the wheel
Healy and L.Martinez follow on the wheel of Mas!
Healy dropped
Strong pace by Mas, only L.Martinez on the wheel.
10 KM TO GO
Attacks in the GC group!
Crash in the GC group
Paul Seixas fell victim to a climb and his bike is the most damaged!
In the yellow jersey group
Wellens on the front pacing, gap to the front is 1'24.
Tobias Halland Johannessen attacks
He attacks from the GC group!
Remco Evenepoel counter attacks
Vingegaard follows, Pogacar on the wheel of Vingegaard. No Lipowitz.
Attack Lenny Martinez
He drops Mas!!!
Martinez's gap
He has a 10" gap on Mas and 52" on the yellow jersey group. 7 km to go!
Attack Vingegaard
Pogacar follows!
5 KM TO GO
Martinez is flying! He has a gap of 45"!
Looking good for Lenny
A plateau remains now between Lenny Martinez and stage victory!
2 KM TO GO
Gap at 32"!
FLAMME ROUGE!
Lenny Martinez is bound to take the win now!
LENNY MARTINEZ WINS STAGE 8
A brilliant attack from him!
Tadej Pogacar wins the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné
Sensational!
The top 5 on the stage
1st: Lenny Martinez
2nd: Jonas Vingegaard
3rd: Tadej Pogacar
4th: Matteo Jorgenson
5th: Remco Evenepoel
Enric Mas post-stage interview
The result of stage 8
The Domestique stage report
The final outlook
Remco Evenpoel post-stage interview
The post-stage ceremony underway
The prizes are being given out, starting with the stage winner, Lenny Martinez!
The winner of the 2025 Dauphiné, Tadej Pogacar!💛
Tadej Pogacar wins the green jersey
He equals Van der Poel's tally but his stage victories provide the tie-break!
Bruno Armirail wins the polka-dot jersey!
A brilliant performance by him!
Tadej Pogacar post-stage interview
That's a wrap
Thanks everyone for joining us today!
