Victor Campenaerts (R) pulls off and Matteo Jorgenson comes through in the Visma-Lease a Bike crosswind attack Visma-Lease a Bike could have sat in the peloton on stage 6 of Paris-Nice on Friday and let the sprinters have their day, but instead, the team took a very different tactic.
Following Jonas Vingegaard’s abandon , the team threw their weight behind race leader Matteo Jorgenson and jettisoned all but two of their closest rivals with a full-on echelon attack with around 60km to go.
Their effort was so strong that only 16 riders ended up in the leading group: all of Visma-Lease a Bike, all but one rider from Ineos Grenadiers , Mattias Skjelmose and stage winner Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Florian Lipowitz and Matteo Sobrero (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) and Max Schachmann (Soudal-Quickstep).
Jorgenson gained 1:54 on a group with João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates XRG) and 8:57 on the main peloton with Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), who dropped out of the top 10. Additionally, the American scored a six-second time bonus to bring his lead over Lipowitz to 44 seconds. Skjelmose climbed from sixth to third overall at 59 seconds.
"I’m impressed with the guys today and our commitment and just following the plan that we made ourselves this morning," Jorgenson said.
"We looked at the course on the bus and made the plan. On a day like today, I knew we had the strongest team in the race for these kinds of conditions, and it’s nice to take full advantage and make what was a […]
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