Greig Leach

David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) flipped the script on Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates). Pogacar had been sucking up all of the bonus sprint seconds throughout this Paris Nice, but today it was Gaudu being led out by his team’s sprinter, Arnaud Demare. Gaudu was able to take the maximum bonus with his teammate picking up the next largest bonus. Pogacar did manage third so he only lost four seconds to the main sitting just behind him on the general classification. The American, Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) tried to mixed it with the others taking fourth on the sprint, but that came without a bonus. Jorgenson sits second in the young riders competition but has the Maillot Blanc on loan from the Maillot Jaune clad Pogacar.