Racing | Tour De France | Stage 8

We'll leave things there for now - thanks for reading! A report and full results will be here shortly, then later all the news from the Tour. Don't forget to join us for tomorrow's live coverage, when the race heads 160.5 kilometres to Tarbes.

It crosses the legendary Col d'Aspin and Col du Tourmalet en route to the finish...should be a good race!

So that's the stage result...no change in the overall, a bit of drama earlier when Evans went clear on the first climb, then again when the two Schleck's put the hammer down on the Col d'Agnes. But that climb was really too far from the finish.

Luis Leon Sanchez was here as team leader, replacing Alejandro Valverde. He had hoped to do a good GC but apparently decided yesterday that wasn't working out, and he would go for stage wins. He's had no wait at all for that...good ride.

Here's the top four:

1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
2 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux
3 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
4 Vladimir Efimkin (Rus) AG2R La Mondiale

Astarloza and Efimkin were third and fourth, with Rojas taking that fifth place. Christophe Riblon (Ag2r) was sixth.

Here's the bunch... looks like either Rigoberto Uran or Jose Joaquin Rojas Gill who takes the sprint, sitting up out of the saddle and celebrating the Caisse d'Epargne win...  Nocentini is in the bunch, so he holds yellow...

Sanchez was chasing, Casar sat on...he went then, Sanchez nipped onto his wheel and waited, as cool as anything. Then he put the head down, hit the gas and that was that...

Casar! No...Sanchez!!

Sanchez is doing most of the work...Casar is waiting...

Under the kite! Efimkin is dangling out there....