It was another day of strong cross winds in Paris-Nice. But it was the final run-in to the finish line that caused the problems. Dan Martin was caught in a crash but made it to the finish, while David Millar remains in the top five of GC. Director sportif Bingen Fernandez sent us this report:
Today we had the same weather as yesterday, cold (3 degrees Celsius) and windy, but at least sunny. After yesterday’s stressful stage of fighting the wind the early breakaway was done after a couple attacks. Most of the peloton was wanting to stay together, thinking about the strong crosswind and trying to not waste too much energy.
The teams were working to keep the team leaders in a good position. We did the same trying to keep David Millar in the best possible position.
The final kilometers were more protected and we had a lot of possibilities to arrive with a peloton sprint. But what happened was a crash in the last kilometer. Dan Martin crashed and hit his knee — it seams it is not bad but we will see tomorrow.
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