tuesday 08 March 2011 at 22h42
Today, the riders ... slowly connected Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire to Nuits-Saint-Georges over 202.5 kilometers. When a 5 riders strong breakaway was taken back, Thomas Voeckler and Blel Kadri decided to give it a try. When the French Champion and Kadri were also taken back at 5 kilometers from the finish, the sprinters teams started to get ready for the second bunch sprint of this Paris-Nice 2011.
Matthew Goss, getting around some riders on the ground at the end of the stage, was the fastest in this sprint and thus took not only the stage victory but also the yellow jersey of leading rider in the general classification. The Australian rider thus took his 6th stage victory since the start of this season!
The summary of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2011
Early this afternoon, 172 French riders came to the start of the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2011. Romain Sicard, one of the two French riders of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team in this edition of Paris-Nice didn't start because of an injury to his right knee.The classifications after the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2011
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The stage classification for the 3rd stage Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire > Nuits-Saint-Georges
The top 5 of this 3rd stage of Paris-Nice 2011 is completed by José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team) and Geraint Thomas (Team Sky).1/ Matthew Goss (HTC-Highroad) - 5h16'48"
2/ Heinrich Haussler (Team Garmin-Cervélo)
3/ Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha Team)
4/ José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar Team)
5/ Geraint Thomas (Team Sky)
The general classification after the 3rd stage
1/ Matthew Goss ([[HTC-Highroad) - 14h22'34"
2/ Thomas De Gendt (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team) - +0'02"
3/ Heinrich Haussler (Team Garmin-Cervélo) - +0'06"
4/ Gregory Henderson (Team Sky)
5/ Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha Team) - +0'08"
Jérémy Roy, 6th in the general classification at 9 seconds behind Goss promissed a nice show tomorrow, on Twitter. Will he add some more kilometers to his 540 kilometers in a breakaway since the start of this season? door Thomas Vergouwen
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