Cycling Dylan Groenewegen has now also the second stage of Paris-Nice to his name. The Dutch geletruidrager showed himself to be the fastest after a troubled sprintersrit. Philippe Gilbert finished third. By fans was the pack (again) to shreds, pulled.
After a flat ride over 165,5 km between Les Bréviaires and Bellegarde sprinted Groenewegen to the victory. By waaiervorming splashed the peloton during the stage from each other. With ten kilometers to go, knew the second group yet to join the first. But more than five kilometers from the finish it was the big group again was ripped apart. Groenewegen, Sunday also already a stage winner, was the fastest of a group of seven men.
In the stand has Groenewegen 12 seconds ahead of Michal Kwiatkowski. Luis León Sánchez is third at 13 seconds.
After the waaierrit of Sunday made the peloton for a second day of races against the wind. The stage of Sunday had victims in the rankings. In addition were three riders literally from: Michael Matthews, Martijn Tusveld and Jasper De Buyst.