Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) confirmed a career-first overall victory at Paris-Nice with second place on stage 8, losing out narrowly to Lenny Martinez (Bahrain-Victorious) in a two-up sprint after the pair attacked away in the final 20km
Vingegaard tried to accelerate away solo after a huge final lead-out from Victor Campenaerts, which shredded the lead group, and while everyone else faltered, Martinez was able to follow on the steep roads of the Côte du Linguador.
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Despite going down hard in a clumsy crash caused by teammate Laurence Pithie, Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe did well to put out a fire and protect Dani Martínez’s second place overall, with Aleksandr Vlasov and Pithie working hard in the chase to save his position, despite being in obvious pain.
Fourth place overall, Kévin Vauquelin got his Ineos Grenadiers teammates to take over at times on the front, but he was unable to really put pressure on Georg Steinhauser, who actually proved the stronger of the two on the key Linguador climb, ending in the German confirming a well-earned podium finish by the time they reached Nice.
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