Tour de France 2022 LIVE result: Wout van Aert wins stage 8 in Lausanne sprint finish

A reminder of our breakaway trio: Mattia Cattaneo (QuickStep), Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Frederik Frison (Lotto-Soudal).

Catteneo, 31, is an Italian rider who finished 12th in last year’s Tour and has never won a grand tour stage. Englishman Wright is 2 and is riding in his second Tour – he finished second in last year’s British Championship road race and seventh in the Tour of Flanders in the spring. Frison, 29, has some good time trial pedigree, so overall it a strong trio, albeit one without experience of winning a stage. Whether they are allowed to go and contest the win by the peloton today remains to be seen.

145km to go: The intermediate sprint is coming shortly. The peloton has slowed slightly, with Jumbo-Visma reluctant to put in too much work all on their own, and now BikeExchange are helping out with the workload. Even so, this three-man breakaway has been allowed to move 3 min 30 sec up the road.

Here’s a look at what’s coming up for the rest of the race – a tough hilly stage tomorrow before the second rest day, and then the serious mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees await:

Now this is interesting – Jumbo-Visma have come to the front of the peloton to keep the breakaway on a tight leash. They might have designs on a Wout van Aert stage win, but they risk expending energy only to dangle the carrot of the day’s victory to Tadej Pogacar, who will fancy winning on this hilly finish if the break is caught and therefore gaining bonus seconds to increase his overall lead to Jumbo’s Jonas Vingegaard. Let’s see how this plays out.

Breaking: Kevin Vermaerke has abandoned the race. A pity – the American was one of those right at the heart of that crash.

Ben O’Connor has asked for medical assistance. The Australian Ag2R rider finished fourth last year and was in good form coming into the Tour after impressing at the Criterium du Dauphine, but he crashed on the cobbles of stage five and it looks like his Tour may be nearing an end.

160km to go: The peloton has really slowed its pace and that has allowed the breakaway to open up a gap of almost two minutes from the bunch. It is still very early days, but could the day’s winner come from this trio? A reminder of the breakers:

Mattia Cattaneo (QuickStep), Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Frederik Frison (Lotto-Soudal).

UAE Emirates come to the fore of the peloton with Tadej Pogacar’s yellow jersey up there too, and they wave the bunch to slow down, accepting the breakaway can go. Pogacar asserting his authority here.

A three-man breakaway had formed just before the crash, and they are now around 30 seconds clear up the road. The trio are Mattia Cattaneo (QuickStep), Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Frederik Frison (Lotto-Soudal).

A crash in the peloton! One went down in the middle of the bunch and a whole load of riders went down in a domino effect. Nairo Quintana, Peter Sagan and even race leader Tadej Pogacar were knocked over there, although Pogacar was going very slowly when he fell and is quickly back on his bike, as is most of the pack.