Paris - Nice 2021, March 7 - March 14

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Oliver Naesen got the combativity award today for being the instigator of 'the Great Belgian Escape'.

He said he couldn't take every Belgian so he decided to only contact the 70kg+ riders. Every rider he contacted joined his group. When they were caught the climbers types like Benoot, Teuns and De Plus were disappointed not to have been invited. At least according to Naesen himself.
 
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Hoping for a speedy recovery :confused:

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Nice to see Bouhanni is alive, but did anyone at all think for even a split second that he was going to come around Bennett?
I certainly didn't. He said he had a problem with his gears in the end but I don't think it would have mattered one bit. Good to see him up there, though. Been awhile since we've seen top Bouhanni.
 
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the new profile for Sunday (stage will finish in Levens instead of Nice) is on Tissot already, and looks pretty bad. Three laps over Cote de Levens


Also tomorrow they scrapped like 50k, but at least the finishing climb will be still there
 
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I disagree with Bennett. As long as its done safely, disrupting sprint trains IS part of sprinting.
Disrupting is but I do think a few guys over stepped the "disrupting". Getting between him and his train is one thing but yesterday came close to causing crashes
 
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the new profile for Sunday (stage will finish in Levens instead of Nice) is on Tissot already, and looks pretty bad. Three laps over Cote de Levens


Also tomorrow they scrapped like 50k, but at least the finishing climb will be still there
It wont affect the race win this year as only a crash would deny Roglic from here but those stages look horrible. Ridiculous from the Nice Officials.
 
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I really like how Paris-Nice have finishes at smaller summits like Chiroubles, Mont Brouilly or Mont Faron.
Is there ever a chance the Tour de France would have a finish at similar venues?
 
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If they'd done the Levens circuit in the opposite direction it would still be a decent stage, now the sprinters might get another opportunity instead...
 
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Yeah, they really butchered the last stage. It used to be a stage which saw some GC action always, now it's just another Bennet day. Eh.

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I actually feel really bad for Nacer at this point.

So simple for Bennett, but not really. Re his complaints, I saw that at about 2.5 km to go, he was shoved off the DQS train and had to go around a few riders to get back on after a head/shoulder butt.

Demare is not at last fall's level for sure.