Greig Leach

Julian Alaphilippe (Quickstep) certainly had the jump on all of the leading group all except for his country man Arnaud Demare (FDJ) The duo came into the finishing straight with Demare on the front and Alaphilippe in the perfect position to take out the sprint (and to pull on the first Yellow Jersey of the 75th running of Paris Nice) While Alaphilippe did get the first jump on Demare the FDJ sprinter was able to come around and take the first stage of the race And to claim the Yellow Jersey of race leader He was quite demonstrative in his victory salute celebrating being the last sprinter standing on the day