Highlights - Stage 7 - #ParisNice 2023 - Vidéo Dailymotion

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Discover the highlights of Paris-Nice 2023's Stage 7 - Nice / Col de la Couillole.  General ranking after today's stage: 1 - POGAČAR Tadej (UAE TEAM EMIRATES) 2 - GAUDU David (GROUPAMA - FDJ) 3 - VINGEGAARD Jonas (JUMBO-VISMA)  More Information on:  http://www.paris-nice.fr/ https://www.facebook.com/parisnicecourse https://twitter.com/parisnice https://www.instagram.com/parisnicecourse/  © Amaury Sport Organisation - www.aso.fr

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00:00 6km to the top of the mountain as Vengagard has to free wheel into the hairpin.

00:06 Such is the speed that he's got.

00:07 Jumps out, starts to make a few legs hurt.

00:19 On to stage 7 of Paris-Nice and time for the riders to return to action after an unexpected

00:24 day off yesterday.

00:26 Stage 6 was cancelled due to exceptionally strong winds.

00:31 Today it's all about the GC battle as we head up the Col de la Couillole, the race's big

00:36 summit finish.

00:37 Race leader Tadej Pogacar has a typically Pogacar-like plan of attack.

00:45 The goal is to come to the finish line as quick as possible and try to win the stage.

00:51 I want a hard race because I feel good and I think the last climb is quite long.

00:58 It should suit Godou and Vengagard more than me but I think I can be confident and try

01:06 to go for the stage.

01:08 His closest challenger is David Godou at just 6 seconds.

01:12 Jonas Vengagard is 46 seconds off the pace in third.

01:15 We're not going to go and beat him because if we do he's already had a ball in the

01:22 kicker.

01:23 We know he's very strong and he's probably one of the top three riders in the world.

01:26 We saw that Vengagard managed to take him out of the Tour de France.

01:29 We have to stay here.

01:30 I'm not saying I'm going to be able to take him out of the Tour but if we can try, we'll

01:36 try.

01:37 But after that it's Pogacar and he's a world champion so we have to get a win.

01:44 Today is very different than last year in the Tour and we'll just have to see how I

01:51 feel in the end and I'll do everything I can to try to win the stage.

01:58 To be honest I feel like I've had OK legs so hopefully again today.

02:06 We'll just see by the end of the day how everything is and I'm looking forward to it.

02:14 Sunday stage starts in Nice which also hosts Sunday's short but spectacular finale.

02:19 There are 143km on the menu with a warm-up on the long climb of the Cote du Tourette

02:24 Chateau, almost 18km at 4.6%.

02:29 It's then on to the main event, La Couiolle, 15.7km at 7.1% which could well settle the

02:35 overall outcome of this 81st edition.

02:47 Nineteen riders got into the day's breakaway, though they were down to 18 when Ineos teenager

02:52 Josh Tarling, the race's youngest rider, unfortunately crashed out.

02:57 Among the escapees were former Paris-Nice stage winners Saren Croix-Andersen and David

03:00 de la Cruz, plus riders we've already seen in the breakaway this week, Hugo Hall, Lilian

03:05 Calmagin, Larry Warbas and Pascal Enkorn.

03:08 Other big names including Niels Pollitz, Gregor Mühlberger and Remy Cavagna, the highest

03:13 placed on GC.

03:14 However, UAE Team Emirates had absolutely no intention of giving them a big gap, keeping

03:20 it steady for Pagaca at just under three minutes.

03:24 The riders blasting along at an average of over 40km/h with the help of a tailwind.

03:29 Astana then looked to up the pace in the breakaway with de la Cruz and Javier Romo hitting the

03:34 front as they came through the intermediate sprints.

03:37 Kobe Gossen's also getting involved.

03:41 Ineos had taken it up in the peloton meanwhile, thinning out the main group and perhaps lining

03:46 something up for Dani Martinez or Pavel Sivakov.

03:50 Heading towards the final climb, the break was down to just five riders.

03:54 Gossen's, Romo, Pollitz, Enkorn and Jeremy Cabot.

03:58 The peloton still one minute and thirty back as they hit the lower slopes.

04:20 The Col de la Couillole featuring on Paris-Nice for the second time after 2017.

04:24 Gossen's going solo as the peloton began to hoover up the rest of the breakaway.

04:30 Tobias Voss, the world time trial champion, doing a fantastic job on the front for Wingergaard.

04:35 The pace turned out to be too much for Martinez.

04:38 He was dropped in spite of all that earlier work from Ineos.

04:43 Further up the road, Gossen's was joined by Romo.

04:46 But the breakaway would come to an end with nine kilometres still to climb.

04:52 The favourites preparing to face off as Voss eventually handed over to Wingergaard, the

04:56 down soon countering a move from Chris Harper.

05:01 Six kilometres to the top of the mountain as Wingergaard has to freewheel into the hairpin.

05:07 Such is the speed that he's got.

05:09 Jumps out, starts to make a few legs hurt.

05:14 But anything you can do, I can do better, said Pogacar.

05:18 And off he went.

05:22 The yellow jersey hitting them hard, but not quite taking off into the sunset.

05:28 The others chasing, getting organised and Godo and Wingergaard had the strength to fight

05:32 their way back to his wheel.

05:38 The Frenchman then made his move and it proved to be too much for Wingergaard.

05:44 The down dropping back as the top two overall opened up a gap.

05:47 Yates, Bardet, Maeder and Paulus were fighting hard, but they wouldn't see the front of the

05:51 race again.

05:52 Wingergaard did though, showing great tenacity to catch Pogacar and Godo just inside the

05:58 final kilometre.

05:59 The overall podium looking settled, but who would win the stage?

06:03 Pogacar now races away in this stage of Paris-Nice.

06:09 Stage seven and Pogacar looks around.

06:13 He's going to fly his way to the finish at the line.

06:17 Two for Taddei, he wins stage seven.

06:28 It was an almighty battle on that final climb, but once again Pogacar showed he's the boss,

06:33 taking his second win of the week on a summit finish and moving on to 53 career victories.

06:38 The Slovenian is on course to win Paris-Nice at the first time of asking and he'll be in

06:42 familiar territory tomorrow on his training roads.

06:46 The 24-year-old could theoretically go home with all four distinctive jerseys.

06:51 I think the first really hot day this year and we were racing really full gas from the

06:57 start and Ineos did a big effort in the middle of the stage and it was coming to the final

07:06 climb.

07:07 I think everyone was already a bit dead and for sure today was one of the toughest battles

07:14 between for the finish.

07:18 The top four on the stage, also the top four overall.

07:21 Paulus taking an impressive fifth place to climb up the leaderboard, followed by Maeda,

07:26 Bardet, Sivakov, Jorgensen and Latour.

07:30 Pogacar taking his seventh win of the season, increasing his lead to 12 seconds over Godoux,

07:36 then Gagarin almost a minute back with Yates slipping to 1.27.

07:39 Paulus jumps from ninth up to sixth.

07:43 Mats Pedersen abandoned the race today with illness, but even if he'd still been around

07:47 the Dan would have lost his green jersey to Pogacar.

07:50 He looks to have it sewn up, leading Olaf Koi by 12 points.

07:56 Jonas Gregar still has the polka dot jersey, but his lead has been cut to just eight points

08:01 now with a maximum of 35 up for grabs on Sunday.

08:05 Pogacar could yet complete the full house.

08:12 He also leads the youth classification by two minutes 32 from Jorgensen, with Kevin

08:16 Vaucoulin also crashing today and losing around five minutes.

08:21 Tomorrow the race concludes with the traditional romp around Nice, which is always fast and

08:25 furious.

08:27 Five climbs packed into just 118 kilometres, including the iconic Col d'Aize, before a

08:32 sweep down to the finish line on the Promenade des Anglais.

08:35 Do join us again tomorrow to see how it all shakes out and thanks for watching.

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