Yves Lampaert wins stage eight time trial as Egan Bernal survives scare to keep race lead at the Tour de Suisse

The Colombian rode well as he managed to hold off Rohan Dennis to keep the yellow jersey

Yves Lampaert on stage eight of the Tour de Suisse 2019 (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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Yves Lampaert (Deceuninck - Quick-Step) won the stage eight time trial, posting the only sub-22 minute time over the 19.2km course as Egan Bernal (Ineos) held on to the overall race lead.

At the start of the day Rohan Dennis (Bahrain-Merida) trailed Egan Bernal by 41 seconds in the overall classification, and as the final two set off from the start hut only the Australian was likely to overhaul Lampaert's time of 21-58.

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