Dominant Primoz Roglic of Jumbo Visma sprints to victory atop the Col de Turini on Stage 7 of Paris-Nice

Atop the mighty Col de Turini, an indomitable Primoz Roglic powered to victory on stage 7 of Paris-Nice, simultaneously tightening his grip on the yellow jersey. Dani Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers) finished in second place, to take him onto the podium, with Simon Yates ( Team BikeExchange — Jayco) in third. With ten bonus seconds taking him to eighteen for the race in total, the Slovenian now leads by 46 seconds over Yates going into tomorrow’s final stage.

Ad/> Having arrived in Nice on Saturday morning, the race to the Sun headed straight into the mountains. Stage 6 was due to bring with it not just the race’s only summit finish, on the fearsome Col de Turini, but snow and sub-zero temperatures as well. To the delight of few, the really bad weather that had been forecast earlier in the week, and which briefly threatened to curtail the stage, had failed to materialise.

/> Paris — Nice'My type of day' — Roglic relishes 'hard racing' at Paris-NiceAN HOUR AGO Coincidence or not, with their numbers already down to double digits, a further seven riders registered as DNS ahead of the morning’s start, with a few more abandoning mid-stage. The departure of Kevin Geniets came about in the most calamitous fashion. The Luxembourg champion got caught up in the cables of the media mixed zone and suffered a mostly embarrassing but still significantly injurious tumble.

Almost immediately as the flag dropped to signal the official start, eighteen riders broke free from the front of the peloton. With the best placed of them Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels KTM) at 5:17 behind the lead, Primoz Roglic’s team was happy to let it go, even if they were reluctant to allow it more than a short leash. With Ineos sharing the work with Jumbo-Visma the