Jumbo-Visma super squad win Stage 3 team time trial at Paris-Nice, Magnus Cort takes GC lead

Jumbo-Visma took victory in an absorbing and original team time trial on Stage 3 at Paris-Nice, propelling GC hopeful Jonas Vingegaard up the standings, while Magnus Cort (EF Education–EasyPost) snatched the overall lead. ‘Race for the Sun’ organisers courted controversy in the build-up after overhauling the TTT, with teams awarded times based on the first rider – not the fourth – to cross the line.

Meanwhile, individual times were counted in the general classification, creating a big shake-up in a race that is renowned for small time gaps. Ad With two world time trial champions – Tobias Foss and Rohan Dennis – in their ranks, Jumbo-Visma delivered a textbook effort to edge out EF Education Easy-Post (+1") and Jayco AlUla (+4"), who earlier lit up the timesheets to grab provisional top spot and push Simon Yates into overall contention.

Paris — NiceStage 3 highlights: Jumbo win revamped TTT as Cort takes overall lead22 MINUTES AGO Tour de France champion Vingegaard led home Jumbo-Visma to move within three seconds of the overall lead in fifth, with team-mate Nathan van Hooydonck missing out on the leader’s jersey by a second. The race had been billed as a head-to-head between Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) after their Tour showdown in 2022, with the Slovenian grabbing 12 bonus seconds across the first two stages, perhaps aware that his UAE train was unlikely to match Jumbo.

And so it proved, with Pogacar’s team suffering an awkward start after Felix Grossschartner became unattached within 90 seconds, forcing an unscheduled deceleration while the Austrian latched back on. The time deficit could have been more significant, had Pogacar not exploded away from his last remaining team-mate on the final hill to