Frenchman Dorian Godon delivered Ineos Grenadiers‘ Paris-Nice second stage win as out-sprinting his rivals after a drastically shortened stage.
It was Godon’s first win since joining the team this year, and Ineos Grenadiers also won the race’s team time trial on stage three.
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He told broadcasters at the finish: “Obviously they want to have a stage, but I think there could have been something different, maybe we could have stopped a bit earlier because in the end it was a bit slippery, there were some big crashes. If we had stopped 10km earlier there wouldn’t have been any problem at all.”
Asked how he was he added: “I’m fine, I backed off at the right moment… I hope everyone who crashed is ok.”
Result
Paris-Nice, Stage 7: Pont Louis Nucera > Isola (47km)
1. Dorian Godon (Fra) Ineos Grenadiers, in 1:01:48
2. Biniam Girmay (Eri) NSN Cycling Team
3. Cees Bol (ned) Decathlon CMA CGM
4. Laurence Pithie (NZl) Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe
5. Luke Lamperti (USA) EF Education-EasyPost
6. Mike Teunissen (Ned) ADS Astana
7. Jensen Plowright (Aus) Alpecin-Premier Tech
8. Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step
9. Matteo Trentin (Ita) Tudor Pro Cycling
10. Samuel Watson (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, all at same time
General classification
1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, in 22:18:38
2. Dani Martínez (Col) Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe, +3:22
3. Georg Steinhauser (Ger) EF Education-EasyPost, +5:50
4. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Ineos Grenadiers, +6:09
5. Lenny Martinez (Fra) Bahrain Victorious, +7:37
6. Marc Soler (Spa) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, +8:15
7. Ion Izagirre (Esp) Cofidis, +9:02
8. Mathys Rondel (Fra) Tudor Pro Cycling, +10:06
9. Alex Baudin (Fra) EF Education-EasyPost, +10:16
10. Harold Tejada (XDS Astana), +11:27
