The summit finish stage… but with a last minute change of summit. If you plan to watch, don’t miss the early finish time.
Paris-Nice Stage 6 Preview
Last year’s stage to La Colle-sur-Loup had to be abandoned because a storm made it too windy to race. This time the race goes back and should make it but it’ll be windy along the way.
Paris-Nice Stage 5 Preview
A sprint stage but over 2,000m of climbing and some long mountain passes but they’re gradual so plenty of sprinters will hope to hang on as this is their last chance.
Paris-Nice Stage 4 Preview
A mountain stage of sorts, today’s route has some unexpected surprises in store.
Paris-Nice Stage 3 Preview
A team time trial with a tricky, hilly first half to trouble the big rouleurs when their leaders need for the run back to the finish.
Paris-Nice Stage 2 Preview
The one pure sprint stage of the week, no pesky hills stand in the way and because the weather looks gentle probably no splits in the crosswinds either.
Paris-Nice Stage 1 Preview
A tough opening stage in a tough place. If you want a preview of the GC contenders, see yesterday’s post. Here’s the first of the daily stage previews.
Paris-Nice Preview
This year’s “race to the sun” promises to be illuminating with the duel between Primož Roglič and Remco Evenepoel as the headline contest, entertaining in itself, informative about future contests like the Tour de France. Don’t call this a mini-Tour, there’s no solo time trial and there are no long summit finishes, do call it a rehearsal for July for several contenders and their teams.
Tuesday Shorts
Did you enjoy the weekend’s racing? TV coverage is a difficult issue this year for many with the absence of GCN+ making it more complicated and more expensive to watch some races. Even within Europe there are complications as Eurosport isn’t a like-for-like replacement, in the US it’s more complicated and other places, say, Japan just don’t have a legal means to watch for now. But Belgians, used to free to air coverage, weren’t happy last weekend either.
The Moment The Omloop Was Won
Jan Tratnik floats away on the descent off the Bosberg with only Nils Politt giving chase as both Matej Mohorič and Stefan Küng dip their heads, too tired to chase. Visma-Lease a Bike won, just not in the manner we expected.