Jonas Vingegaard made it through the still sketchy shortened stage 7 at Paris-Nice unscathed, but he remained adamant in his opinion that the day should have been even shorter, with the slippery conditions in the final causing crashes.
It was the opinion he’d given at the start of the day, and after just over an hour of racing in the cold and wet conditions, race leader Vingegaard’s opinion had only been solidified by what he saw in the final.
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“Now it seems like there were a few crashes in the end, maybe because it was slippery – it seemed quite slippery – so in that situation, probably it would have been better to have the finish line a bit earlier. That’s actually what we want as well because, as bike riders, rain is part of the job, but when there’s snow, it’s a bit different.”
A bizarre day at Paris-Nice saw its queen stage – which already had the mountaintop finish to Auron removed – cut down to just 47km of racing, with cold and wet weather near the Alps forcing the organisers to prioritise rider safety.
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