The sprinter of the LIDL-Trek made his speed talk to Laval to open his victories counter from his first participation on the Grande Loop, on Saturday.
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A boss victory. Italian Jonathan Milan won the 8th stage of the 2025 Tour de France at Sprint in Laval in front of the Belgian Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike) on Saturday July 12. With this first career success on the Grande Boucle for his first participation, the 24-year-old Lidl-Trek runner thus takes orders from the point classification, the only real issue of the day. Deposit of this property, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) nevertheless retains its leading yellow tunic at the end of a rather quiet day, during which only the French of Totalenergies Mattéo Vercher and Mathieu Burgaudeau took the escape.
Before that, the Vitré intermediate sprint had also been the other highlight of the 171.4 kilometers on the program. The transalpine winner of the day-only carrier by proxy of the green jersey from Saint-Méen-le-Grand-had already taken the opportunity to treat his total by preceding Tim Merlier (Sudal Quick-Step) and Anthony Turgis (Totalenergies) on the line.
