Greig Leach

Despite all of the effort by both the team of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) still had the legs to launch an attack on the closing kilometers of the climb up the Col de la Couiollole. The pair would get back up to the Maillot Jaune, perhaps even go on an attack themselves, only to be dropped yet again. It does seem appropriate that the top three positions on the general classification were fighting it out on the highest point of this year’s Paris Nice. It didn’t seem like Vingegaard was going to be pulling back 45 seconds on either of the other two. The only question was, “Is Gaudu going to be able to pull back six seconds of Pogacar?”