Paris-Nice 2026, March 8-15

[Bkinn]

It’s baffling that they didn’t find space for him in the WT squad this year. They blatantly don’t have anywhere near 30 riders better than him.

Lidl offered the last spot in the roster before signing Gee to Alavez, but he refused because he still want to race Worlds and Paris-Rouboix Sub 23.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Ineos looks ready to claim a podium spot. Anyway looking forward to a non Poggi race.

 

[AmRacer]

Ineos looks ready to claim a podium spot. Anyway looking forward to a non Poggi race.

It's the Jonas show.

 

[Rob5091]

Onley and Rodriguez for Ineos could be interesting. Not exacly the crème de la crème of sprinters for stage 1, but Girmay looks a good bet.

 

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Today's final climb, coming up with ~10k to go. Don't think it has been used before, but should normally be enough to split up the field

Forêt de l'Hautil from Chanteloup-les-Vignes - Profile of the ascent

Forêt de l'Hautil from Chanteloup-les-Vignes is a climb in the region Yvelines. It is 1.7 km long and bridges 120 m of vertical ascent with an average gra

climbfinder.com

 

[houtdffan]

also used in the 2021 tour

That's a second MTF

 

[Netserk]

favourites for stage 1 :

* * * - girmay
* * - godon
* - zingle , vacek , lamperti , pluimers , pithie

 

[Berniece]

favourites for stage 1 :

* * * - girmay
* * - godon
* - zingle , vacek , lamperti , pluimers , pithie

Milan Fretin?

 

[hayneplane]

Looks like the kind of situation that prime Visma from 3-4 years ago would detonate the field on the final categorised climb and leave the rest to hunt for scraps. Don’t know if they feel they can or should do that now.

 

[AmRacer]

Looks like the kind of situation that prime Visma from 3-4 years ago would detonate the field on the final categorised climb and leave the rest to hunt for scraps. Don’t know if they feel they can or should do that now.

I think they should, Jonas ftw.

 

[Netserk]

Milan Fretin?

yep

i went by odds

 

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the way Girmay's climbing looked the past weeks, I don't really think he is much of a favorite today. But who knows who is willing to split things at all.

Currently, NSN and Picnic seems to be the teams controlling the (relatively good) 6-men break of C. Pedersen, Durbridge, Gamper, Walker, le Berre and Grignard. They only have 40s

 

[Brumdog66]

I think they should, Jonas ftw.

Reminds me of the stage where wout dropped jonas in the 22 tour

 

[Netserk]

skujins has crashed . not good before the ttt

 

[Netserk]

we are live

no white on his helmet this year ( the space helmet still has a white cross )

 

[Rob5091]

skujins has crashed . not good before the ttt

Team mangements must be crossing fingers and toes in the hope of no nasty crashes - let's hope for some calm heads.
The peloton keeping the break close at just over a minute.

 

[Rob5091]

Second time over the finish line is the bonus seconds sprint, if I'm correct. 6 seconds for first over the line sounds tempting for some.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Good pace overall, if they race the two climbs hard things will happen methinks.

 

[Netserk]

narrow and surprisingly slow last corner

 

[Rob5091]

narrow and surprisingly slow last corner

Looks like a dodgy run in ...

 

[AmRacer]

Hope they launch Jonas next lap

 

[Netserk]

no chance to catch the break before the intermediate sprint

will be hard to chase them down on this circuit

 

[Tim Cahill]

Depends whether this Vingegaard has trained to climb well in high mountains or be good at random 1k climbs like last season.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

You think you've got rid of Perdrerson, but then they just AI generate another one, am I right, @Ilmaestro99?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

You think you've got rid of Perdrerson, but then they just AI generate another one, am I right, @Ilmaestro99?

There's something really weird going on in Scandinavia man