Euskaraz irakurri: Vlasovek irabazi du Paris-Nizako zazpigarren stage, eta McNultyk leadertzari eutsi dio

Aleksandr Vlasov (Bora-hansgrohe) won the seventh and penultimate stage of Paris-Nice on Saturday, March 9, and the American Brandon McNulty (UAE Emirates) retained the lead of the general classification.

The organization announced on March 7 that the route of the seventh stage was going to suffer cuts due to bad weather conditions. In this way, of the 173 kilometers between Nice and Auron initially planned, The stage finally had a distance of 104 kilometers starting in Nice and ending at the top of La Madone d’Utelle.

Escape attempts occurred from the beginning. Ben Thomas (Cofidis), Johan Jacobs (Movistar) and Martijn Tusveld (DSM-firmenich PostNL) were the first to take advantage of the peloton. A little later, Brent van Moer (Lotto Dstny), Gijs Leemreize (DSM-firmenich PostNL) and Sandy Dujrdin (TotalEnergies) came out for them. The horse trio then became a duo as Tusveld was left behind due to a mechanical breakdown. Furthermore, a little further ahead, the peloton caught up with the trio and tried to link up with the head of the race.

The teams of the favorites for the final victory of the Paris-Nice had the runners at the head of the race under control at all times and the adventure of Jacobs and Thomas ended with 14.2 kilometers to go, with Jacobs the last man they hunted.

So, The stage was decided on the final climb to Madone d’Utelle. Vlasov attacked with 4.2 kilometers to goopened a gap with respect to the favorites to win the race and won the victorysince no one could follow his wheel.

In the fight between the favorites, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) attacked 4 kilometers from the finish linebut failed to leave its rivals behind. However, the Belgian He tried again with 2 kilometers to gobut Primoz Roglic (BORA hansgrohe), Santiago Buitrago (Bahrain Victorious) and Jorgenson stuck to their wheel. Initially Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and McNulty left behind. Skjelmose joined the quartetbut the leader was cut off. Anyway, there was no understanding between the favorites and McNulty lost less time than expectedwhich made him maintain the lead.

Evenepoel was second in the stage, Roglic third, Skjelmose fourth and Jorgenson fifthall of them 8 seconds behind Vlasov. Buitrago was sixth 13 seconds behind the winner and McNulty 7th at 27.

Therefore, Brandon McNulty continues to lead the general classificationnow with 4 seconds ahead of Jorgenson which is second. Skjelmose takes third place 35 seconds behind the leader, Evenepoel is fourth at 36, Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla) fifth at 47 and Roglic sixth at 1 minute and 21 seconds.

As far as Basque cyclists are concerned, Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) is 24th overall 15 minutes and 42 seconds behind the leader, while Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) is 30º 22 minutes and 46 seconds behind McNulty.

Classification of the 7th stage:

1 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) 2:44:03

2 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) +0:08

3 – ROGLIC Primož (BORA) mt

4 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) mt

5 – JORGENSON Matteo (Visma) mt

6 – BUITRAGO Santiago (Bahrain) +0:13

7 – MCNULTY Brandon (UAE) +0:27

8 – KELDERMAN Wilco (Visma) +0:31

9 – PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (Decathlon) +0:36

10 – PLAPP Luke (Jayco) +0:40

General ranking:

1 – MCNULTY Brandon (UAE) 25:00:28

2 – JORGENSON Matteo (Visma) +0:04

3 – SKJELMOSE Mattias (Lidl) +0:35

4 – EVENEPOEL Remco (Soudal) +0:36

5 – PLAPP Luke (Jayco) +0:47

6 – ROGLIC Primož (BORA) +1:21

7 – BERNAL Egan (INEOS) +1:42

8 – KELDERMAN Wilco (Visma) +1:43

9 – PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien (Decathlon) +1:53

10 – VLASOV Aleksandr (BORA) +2:05

Source: Eitb

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