Stage 8 of this year's Tour de France is underway in Dordogne and is expected to finish with a mass sprint in Bergerac that favors fast finishers.The 180.4 km route from Périgueux to Bergerac runs through the Périgord and the Vézère valley, includes two fourth-category climbs—Côte de Domme (about 3.6–3.7 km at roughly 3.3%) and Côte du Buisson-de-Cadouin—both placed far from the finish and an intermediate sprint at Saint-Cyprien that matters for points.Tim Merlier,
Olav Kooij,
Jasper Philipsen,
Mads Pedersen,
Biniam Girmay and
Søren Wærenskjold are the principal sprint contenders while
Tadej Pogačar leads the
general classification ahead of
Jonas Vingegaard and
Isaac Del Toro.