Stage 8 Brief Race Log King of the mountain: Filippo Savini. Best Asian rider: Shinichi Fukushima. 2nd: Kano at 17 sec. Points: 1. Clerc 83, 2. Manan 60, 3. Corsini 47. Gc: 1. Ivanov 29.49.06 2. Sprick at 0.29 3. Cesar at 0.32 4. Yates at 0.36 5. Sobal at 0.48 6. Docker at 0.56 7. Rodriguez at 1.03 8. Marino at 1.09 9. McLeod at 1.44 10. Wilson at 1.48 1. Savini 3.12.32 2. Ivanov at 0.15 3. Serpa 4. Ochoa at 0.43 5. Pedraza 6. Yates at 0.51 7. Cesar 8. Sprick 9. Fahridi 10. Clement at 0.55 Ruslan Ivanov is probably the new leader. 2. Serpa 3. Ivanov 4. Ochoa 5. Pedraza Savini wins Savini alone with 1km to go. Savini goes clear. The 3 leaders at 4km to go. Docker at 11 sec. 3 leaders: Serpa, Tschopp and Savini. Attack by Serpa and Rodriguez, followed by Tschopp and Savini. With 10km to go, Aurelien Clerc leads the bunch. Yellow jersey in 15th position. With 15km to go, Ag2r leads thd bunch. Crawford caught before 20km to go. Jai Crawford goes clear. 17 sec. lead. Jai Crawford goes clear. 17 sec. lead. Koji has been caught at the bottom of the climb. Riders approaching Fraser's Hill. Koji alone away 44 sec. from the bunch. Koji Fukushima has rejoined Li Fuyu. Sprint 3: 1. Li Fuyu 2. Z. Salleh 3. Clerc 4. Manan. Drapac and Diquigiovanni share the turns in front of the peloton. Gap stabilised around 1'30. At km 54, the gap is 1'23. In 1 hour, Li Fuyu has covered 46km. At km 42, Li Fuyu is 1'42 ahead of the peloton. New gap: 1'51 for Li Fuyu. Sprint 1: 1. Li 2. Haidar 3. Clerc 4. Park. Li Fuyu is 1'04 away. One lone chaser: Herwin Jaya at 21 sec. Peloton at 30 sec. After 20km, attack by Li Fuyu. Ag2r is the most active team ahead of the peloton. Correction: Hoffman hasn't signed on but he's racing. All together at km 10. Attack by Koji Fukushima at km 8. Also non starting Erik Hoffman and former race leader Mathieu Sprick. Bad news at the start today: the victim of yesterday's
crash Alberto Loddo is a non-starter. He's injured. But the man guilty
for the crash Mauro Richeze is still there.
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