Ineos Grenadiers are hugging the left side of the road with the peloton stretched out now.

Marc Soler one of Tadej Pogacar's teammates has been dumped out of the back as has Michael Matthews.

Jonas Abrahamsen still has over a minute.

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Lots of nervy riders on some very wet roads around Chaumont, as the sprint teams start to edge up towards the front.

Visma-Lease a Bike are right up along with Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-dstny), who is reportedly heading to the Dutch team next season.

Jonas Abrahamsen barely lost any time on the final climb with the sprint teams keen not to put their own fast men into trouble but it is tumbling down now and is in the region of two minutes and 30 seconds.

Jonas Abrahamsen has led the KOM classification since the first stage and as long as he finishes today, tomorrow and on Tuesday, he should still be in polka dots come stage 11 on Wednesday.

Belgian's Ludo Peeters was the last rider to retain the polka dot jersey for the first 10 stages of the Tour de France, in 1984.

The time gap out on the road has dropped further to three minutes and 11 seconds but Abrahamsen, could be hitting a headwind when he reaches the exposed roads around Bologne, shortly.

The peloton is closing in ever so slightly. They still have almost four minutes to make up to the race leader in a bit of a tailwind.

Jonas Abrahamsen's impressive day out continues as he hoovers up the final KOM point available today.

How much longer will he stay solo? He looks a little heavy-legged on the 1.2km rise up the Cote Giey-sur-Aujon, which averages out at an 8.4% gradient.

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What's happened here... there's pile up towards the back of the peloton and Warren Barguil is down and looks to need a new bike, as he sports the typical cuts and bruises that accompany an incident like that/

Barguil was the last French rider to win a stage at the Tour on Bastille Day, in 2017.

It was a pretty unfortunate time for Geraint Thomas to have a problem but the Welshman is close to regaining contact with the back of the main bunch.

He he comes...Absolutely nowt for the 2018 winner to worry about as he latches on to the peloton.

Geraint Thomas is off the back of the peloton with a puncture.

The final climb up the Cote Giey-sur-Aujon is coming up shortly and the peloton is slightly strung out as the tempo rises and reduces the gap to the leader Jonas Abrahamsen to just over five minutes.

Just for reference five-time former champion Miguel Indurain was about 76kg -80kg back in the day and was part of the team [Banesto] with one of the most iconic Tour kits ever.

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Jonas Abrahamsen speaking at the start of stage eight: "It has been like a dream for me. The first day I came home with a jersey and have kept a jersey since stage two. It is always cool to go to the podium.

"I just love being here in France with the support. Before I was very skinny at 60kg but I think it is important to show you can also be a very good athlete when you are a bit heavier. At 20kg it is very good as a role model for others to think they can be heavier and ride well.

"I was 1.77m five or six years ago and now I am 1.83m. I was too skinny for too many years and needed some good nutrition."

Jonas Abrahmasen has been at the front of the race for almost 100km today. All betting is surely off for the combativity award and some extra francs for the Norwegian.

Today's finish will be in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, which is best known for having been the holiday retreat of Charles de Gaulle, who led the Free French forces in World War II and was later the French president.

He received German chancellor Konrad Adenauer in the village for a highly symbolic visit in 1958 and two years later the peloton stopped to greet De Gaulle, who congratulated the Italian Yellow Jersey Gastone Nencini on the eve of his overall victory in Paris.

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Biniam Girmay said at the start earlier that the green jersey was now very much his target at this year's Tour and he's in a pretty handy position at present.

Provisional Points Classification:

1. Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty), 166 points

2. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), 107 points

3. Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), 98 points

Absolutely no indication that the peloton want to reel in Jonas Abrahamsen at the minute.

I suspect they may allow him to hang off the front for another 50km if not more. The Norwegian rider has around six minutes on a very relaxed main bunch.

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Have you ever seen so many polka dots? Jonas Abrahamsen is fully embracing leading the KOM competition.

Uno-X Mobility are not a World Tour team and Abrahamsen, through a combination of cresting climbs first and taking the intermediate sprint has already pocketed over 2,000 euros in prize money during this stage so far.

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Job done for Intermarche-Wanty as Biniam Girmay collects 17 points and Jasper Philipsen is relegated to fourth thanks to the efforts of Gerben Thijssen.

Intermarche-Wanty, Alpecin-Deceuninck and Lotto-Dstny all push through to the front of the peloton which means that Biniam Girmay, Jasper Philipsen and Arnuad de Lie, among others, will contest the intermediate sprint in the main bunch.

The intermediate sprint is coming up at Lamargelle shortly.

Jonas Abrahamsen will almost certainly take the 20 points on offer for the rider to roll through first but he'll still be miles of Biniam Girmay, who currently leads the points classification.

The Eritrean leads the way with 149 points, with the departure of Mads Pedersen removing his closest challenger. Abrahamsen has 87 points.

Jordan Jegat is back in the fold. The TotalEnergies rider is consumed by the peloton, who have allowed Jonas Abrahamsen to stretch out to almost five minutes.