Greig Leach

The Jumbo-Visma trio of Christophe Laporte, Primoz Roglic, and Wout Van Aert had worked together to build on their lead from the top of the final climb with nineteen seconds in hand they had plenty of time to celebrate their rather dominant victory. I am watching the race via Peacock TV with Christian Vandevelde and Bob Roll as commentators. They spent the final kilometers trying to decide who was going to win the stage with Vandevelde saying it would go to Laporte since he was the only one of them who had not won a stage of Paris Nice. I agreed with who it would be, but I felt it was because he was the one who set up the three man break on the final climb. It could be argued that the time bonus for winning meant that they would have Roglic cross first. But a second here or their considering advantage over the field I think they could well afford to show teammanship over adding a bigger time bonus to their team leader. I was reminded of the Three Muskateers slogan, "All for one and one for all" as they took their collective bows at the finish line in Mantes La Ville.