Today will take us 186km from Dole to Lausanne, you can see our full preview piece here.
Troubling news already this morning as two riders have left the Tour de France following positive COVID-19 cases.
A look at the map of stage 8 of the Tour de France, finishing on the summit finish of Côte du Stade olympique in Lausanne.
Our jersey holders are of course Tadej Pogačar on his second day in yellow, Wout Van Aert in the green jersey as leader of the points classification, Magnus Cort who continues in polka dots, nursing just a one point lead over Pogačar, and Tom Pidcock, who sports the white youth classification jersey, on behalf of Pogačar.
The peloton rolls towards the official race start in Dole. Once again, it looks likely that plenty of teams will be interested in being part of the day's early break.
Which teams will be the first to attack today? The Tour is only 8 stages old, so plenty of teams still have yet to make an impact on the race, and would love to assert themselves on this tricky, lumpy stage.
1km to go until we're underway.
Christian Prudhomme appears through the sunroof of the commissaire's car with his yellow flag, and we're off.
KILOMETRE 0
The riders power away ready for 186.3km of two-wheeled combat. No moves as yet.
Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is the first rider to attack.
185km to go
Guess who? It's Magnus Cort - he's keen to get away and defend his polka dots. He's accompanied by a rider from Arkea-Samsic.
Wout Van Aert looks interested, highly visible at the front of the pack in his green skinsuit.
Four riders nurse a small gap, but this breakaway is a long way from being established.
Everything comes back together and we go again, with riders from Lotto Soudal and QuickStep-AlphaVinyl pushing the pace.
180km to go
The three have a small gap - Mattia Cattaneo (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Brent Van Moer (Lotto Soudal) - but the attacks begin behind with Stefan Kung (Groupama-FDJ) among those interested.
The group of three carve out a 16 second gap as the attacks behind fail to stick.
It looks as though the riders at the front of the bunch are taking a moment to recharge before they try to bridge across to the front group.
Oh no - big crash at the back of the bunch, plenty of riders affected. Vlasov has hurt his face and a rider from Team DSM looks to be hurt.
The rider from DSM is up and walking. Peter Sagan waits by the roadside for a new bike.
175km to go
The peloton regroup and with the crash causing chaos, it seems as though it's given the break the chance they need to get away. They have 25 seconds now.