Tour de France: Double Dylan Groenewegen Zwift Rider of the Day

Seemingly in the form of his life after two wins in two days, Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo) is our Zwift Rider of the Day on stage 8 of the Tour de France. The Dutchman beat perhaps the best field he has ever faced and did so convincingly in Amiens.

With 6th and 4th places to his name heading towards the end of the race's first week while Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) traded stage wins, it looked as though it would be tough for Groenewegen to get on the top step of the podium.

Last year, his win in Paris came without those two riders, and also without Marcel Kittel (Katusha-Alpecin), Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) and Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ). To beat all of these men, plus André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) and Alexander Kristoff (UAE Team Emirates) is looking like quite the step up from last July.

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The victory marks the 11th win of 2018 for Groenewegen, already equalling his career high in 2016. And with wins coming at the Tour, Paris-Nice and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, they're a higher standard too.

It's not just the fact that he won either, but the manner in which he did so. There have been no big crashes, no huge slices of luck, just pure speed and positioning. On Saturday, Groenewegen had a front row seat for the argy-bargy between Greipel and Gaviria that saw the duo demoted after the stage.

He chose the German's wheel in the final, and it proved a shrewd move with Greipel shadowing world champion Sagan, who decided to go for it 300 metres out in a hectic sprint.

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