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As it happened: Paris-Nice stage 7

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Tadej Pogacar extended his overall le꧒ad with another victory atop the Col de la Couillole

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𒉰Good morning from a very normal country. I'm coming to you impartially and apolitically and I'm being treated very well indeed. 

Here's the scene a🐻t the start. No, I don't really like the fact we're already in Nice, a day before the end of Paris-Nice, but I have seen many many worse views from sign-on podiums. 

The riders are steadily signing on and☂ they'll be rolling away at 10:40 local time. They then have a lengthy neutral zone to negotia෴te so the stage proper should get underway at 11, so in just over half an hour.

Here's whatꦉ's in st🍷ore today. The Côte de Tourette-du-Château has been given ASO's liberal Paris-Nice approach to climb ratings but the final climb of the Col de la Couillole looks every bit a category-1 summit finish. It's the same average gradient as the Loge des Gardes a few days ago, but twice as long. We saw some drama then, this promises more. 

Before we get going, now's the time to catch up on yesterday's action, or lack thereof. Extreme winds forced the complete cancellation of stage 6, so there was no stage winner and no change to ♈the general classification. 

We're on the move. The riders roll out of Nice but it'll s📖tꦺill be a little while before this stage really gets underway.

A reminder of the overall standings 

We're off!

Some non-starters

As expected, it's a rip𝓀per of a start - over 50km/h so far.

This was always likely to generate breakaway interest but when you take an entire stage out of the race - one tailor-made for breakaway artists no less - then the appetite only intensif🐻ies.

No attacks sticking so far. 

It's also tailwind out there.

Lilian Calmejane (Interma♒rché-Circus-Wanty) has attacked with Javie Romo (Movistar) and Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe)

We're on that early lump and some riders are 🌠already being drop🔜ped.

The trio have company. Larry Warbasse (Ag2R-Citroen), Florian Sénéchal (Soudal Quick Step), Brent Van Moer (Lotto Dstny) and Hugo ✅Houle (Israel-Premier Tech) bridge across.

We have a counter-attack b🥃ut the marg𓃲ins are slim at the moment and this is anything but settled.

Arna🐠ud Démare is in this counter. What's h💧e up to? 

Here's that full story on the fall-♛out, if you were interested.

Démare joins the front along with Dorian Godon (Ag2R) and Soren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin꧒ Deceunincꦚk).

Kelland O’Brien (Jayco Alula), Josh Tarling (Ineo🐎s Grenadiers) and Pascal Eenkhhorn (Lotto Dstny) set off now and are in between break and bunch.

I🔴t's been a rap🔥id opening 30km and we're now onto the lower slopes of the Côte de Tourette-du-Château, the first of our two cat-1 climbs today.

Those three get across to the front now,♐ so we have 13 in the breakaway as we head up the c﷽limb.

This climb is 17.6km long but the gradient - disrupted by a few flatter sections - only averages out🐲 to 4.6🌼%.

We have another counter-attack. It's Lucas Hamilton (Jayco 𓆏Alula) and Remi Cavagna (Soudal Quick Ste🐽p).

They're joined by Démare now, who's been dropped from the lead and will likely only slide further. That's probably what he was doing - giving himselfꦺ some sliding room.

The peloton is a minute behind the front of the race🐼.

There are sill ri𝕴ders jumping out of the bunch here

The race leader in typically high spirits today

Cavagna and Hamilton are closing in ♛on the break. 

Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafreꦉdo), the green jersey, has abandoned Paris-Nice. Moreꦉ to follow.

Ruben Fernandez (Cofi♌dis), who crashed earlier, also abandons, as does Soren Waerenskjold (Uno-X) who has crashed a couple of times this week.

Cavagna and Hamilton are across and the next gꦅroup is coming close now, too.

Trek-Segafredo confirm 𒊎that Pedersen was ill, with "symptoms of a cold". The stage 2 winner was dropped on the first uncategorised rise today.

Bora have also confirmed that Benne🌺tt was ill, and so were the three Israel abandonees. We're nowhere near the scale of last year, but seems there's something going round.

The latest counter - Muhlberger, Sweeny, Hoole, Goosens, De la Cruz - gets across. Matthews was in there initially but is not anymore. Jayco-AlUla claim the pelo🃏ton wouldn't let him go. 

The newly-expanded breakaway is coming to the top of the first climb 🦩now.

The gap rises towards the two-minute mark as the groups head over the꧋ summit, although the road continues to drag uphill for some 15kmಞ yet.

Here's how the 🔯mountains points were dished out on the Côte de Tourrette-ꦡdu-Château

In terms of the mountains classification, Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X) has a pretty solid lead in the polka-dots - not mathematically unassailabl𝐆e, but firm enough for him not to bother with the break today. 

A little simplified summary after a frantic start

Pogačar's UAE men are controlling the peloton and they're not giving this breakaway much room. They've pegged the gap below the two-minute mark.

The riders have crested the long post-climb drag and we're ꦰnow dipping downhill for a while.

The best-placed rider in this break is Cavagna, who started the day 24th overall at 3:20 from Pogačar. 

The gap rises slightly, it's out to 2:30.

Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) has crashed out of the breakaway and out of the race on this desc🎀ent. We'll have an injury update when we cജan. 

Tarling is a 19-year-old neo-pro who has skipped the U23 ranks to go pro with one of the biggest teams, and he's been thrown in right at the deep end - most riders don't race the juniors one season and Paris-Nice the next. H🦂e also did UAE Tour - another WorldTour race - before this, and started his season at Bessèges, with 18 days of racing already. 

Here was Tarling at🅷 the head of the breakaway on the☂ earlier climb.

50km to go and the breakaway are zipping along with a lead of🅷 2:45. 

The fight for position begins a🌟lready. The pace has lit up in the peloton as we continue down thi🀅s gentle descent. 

We've got an intermediate sprint coming up but it's inconse🦹quential given the bonus seconds willꦿ be snaffled by the breakaway.

The int-sprint is still at the top of a hill, and it🍌's fairly steep one.

Mechanical for Roma♏in Bardet (DSM). That's not a g🎃ood time as the bunch continues quickly up this kicker.

Bardet is sixth overall. Here's ✤a reminder of the overall standings.

With th♒e help of two ♎teammates, Bardet gets back onto the back of the bunch as the road continues uphill.

Ineos Grenadiers have taken over �꧋�the pace-making in the peloton.

De la Cruz bagged the bonus seconds at the💜 intermediate sprint, but he was 3:32 ꦬdown at the start of the day. He was followed by Goosens and his teammate Romo.

Those rܫiders have decided to press on and are away, alon𒁏g with Sweeny, as the road heads downhill again. 

The four of them have a lead of 15 seconds over their former breakaway compℱanions.

Meanwhile, with 40km to ꦛgo, the gap back to the bunch is down to just above t🃏wo minutes.

Ineos are tearing down this descent.

The bunch is splitting!

There's a crash at a major pinch point over the narrowest of bridges leading into a🐓 corner. That helps chop the front of 🦂the peloton into 40 riders.

34km to go and some riders catch back up with t൲he peloton.

Ineos have burned a few matches here. Omar Fraile is looking rag🍎ged, with Sivakov and Martineﷺz behind him.

UAE still have decent numbers in there.

The breakaway reformed after that earlier split but they're only 1:44 ahead now with no realistic chance of🅠 the stage win.

Fraile handles the last kicker and ta🅘kes us onto our last little descent. After this, it's a drag towards our long final climb.

Nightmare for Arkea, who have lost Vaquelin and Champoussin to incidents. They're both chasing now. Both are bright French prosp🥃ects but Vaquelin especially has made an impression this season and here at Paris-Nice where he was top five on the Loge des Gardes summit finish.

Mechanical for Senechal, a dropped chain and he drops from the break and right through th🎉e bunch. 

Onto that drag now and the break has split again! Five r𝔉iders🎉 clip off the front.

Romo, Goosens, Cabot, Politt, and Eenkhoorn are the five up the road with𒐪 a small gap.

Vaquelin is 40 seconds down

꧃Pierre Latour scrambles to get back into the small bunch. He had trouble following on the descent.

Vingegaard has two teammates in this reduce𝕴d peloton. Gaudu has three. Pogacar has just one. 

Pogacar has two, sorry ꦯ- Bjerg and Grossschartner.

Jumbo-Visma take over from Ineos now!

Vauquelin is back!

Van Hooydonck is setting th🔥e pace in the bunch for Jumbo, who also have Tobias Foss with Vingegaard.

The final climb starts with 15.7km to go. So that's another 6km of false f꧅lat u💞p the valley.

The Col de la Couillole ave𝐆rages 7.1% gradient, and it takes us up to 1678 metres. It's a proper mountain.

Up front, the breakaway ha🥃ve found a little more room. The quintet isℱ still out front with 2:20 in hand now.

Crash. Touch of wheels in the peloton and Thomas De Gendt fallsඣ and others come down with him. 

Mattias Skjelmose i𝐆s down. He's Trek's GC leader and was 13th overall at 🦩the start of the day.

Skjelmﷺose went flying head over heels and someone is examining his face. That looks nasty. He then clipped his teammate Julien Bernard, and Uno-X's Alexander Kristoff also came dow൩n and vented his anger.

Jayco-AlUla are trying to bring the rest of the break back to the front of the rac☂e but they're a minute down now and it's surely a lost cause.

Vingegaard has moved up ahead of Pogačar now, making it three Jumbo riders at the head of this peloton as we approach the final climb.

Final climb time!

Goosens attacks immediately

Romo gives chase. Politt, Cabot, and Eenkhoorn ไare surely dropped for good.

Van Hooydonck had relentedཧ just before the start of the climb, leading FDJ to take it up for a while, but Foss has now started working for Jumbo as the bunch hits the climb 1:20 down.

Grossschartner is dropped. Pogačar has no teammates left! 

The bunch has thinned to 20 riders already. 

Romo has linked up with Goosens at the fron𝓰t of the race. They're 13.2km from the summit and they're just 53 seconds in front now.

Dani Martinez dropped!

The Ineos 🌜leader, who won the recent Volta ao Algarve, was slightly off the pace the other day but he's going to lose a s✨tack of time here. That's a surprise, especially because Ineos were on the assault not long ago.

Ineos still have Pavel Sivakov here, but he's down in 18th place overall𝓀.

Goosens and Romo have just 3🐈0 seconds in hand now with 11km to go.

Ion Izaguirre (Cofidis) is the next to be dropped. B�🎉�ob Jungels (Bora) now, too. 

17 riders left now as Molard drops for FDJ.

Foss still lead𒉰ing thi♚s bunch. Great ride from him so far.

Calmejane and Berthet are the next to lose contact. 15꧂ now.

Goosens, who doesn't seem to have 🎃got a turn outꦏ of Romo, looks around and he can see the bunch.

Romo drops, Goಌosens drags it out for a lit🎃tle while longer. 10 to go.

Foss continues with Vingegaard and the dozen others in his wheel. Goosens is lurking round a couple of blind bends at🍒 8 seconds.

Goosens caught. End of break༺away with 9km to go. 

This is the front of the race

Fos𝐆s is still going. Vingegaard is out of the saddle, he looks twitchy, this is being set up very nicely for him.

A reminder that after his downfall at La Loge des Gardes, Vingegaard needs to find 46 seconds on Pogačar. 

Gaudu is a much more iꦑmminent threat to the yellow jersey at just six seconds. Yates is the only other rider within a minute.

Foss is still going but the damage is more limited now. 💦Goosens is hanging onto the back still. 

And as I write that, we have an attack!

Harper is no threat on GC, he's a teammate for Y🎶ates.

The writing was on the wall - Foss is done

Vingegaard takes it up! 6km to go

It's not a full-blow🥀n attack but Vingegaa🔯rd accelerates

Pogacar attacks!!!!

The yellow jersey senses Vingegaard coming to the end of his burst and as he looks around to his right, Pogacar hit✅s him on the left. 

Touch of wheels and Paret-Peintre crashes uphill.

Vingegaard is forced to try and grind Pogačar back. The gap is a few seconds.

This has exploded the group now.

Yates d🎉ropped, along with🐬 Haig, Powless, Harper, Latour. And now Mader. 

Sivakov loses the wheel now.

Only Gaudu, Bardet, and Jorgenson can follow VIngegaard as he tracks down Pogačar.

Vingegaard has plugged this at five seconds.

Bardet and Jorgenson lose the wheel!

This is actually looking pretty good for Gaudu. He's gettin🐓g a ride back up to a yellow jersey who's not getting away.

Gaudu comes through and starts to work with the Tour de France chaꦫmp.

4km to go and Pogacar 🍬leads by four seconds over Vingegaard and Gaudu.

And now Vingegaard closes the gap. Three at 💫the front.

Gaudu attacks!!

Vingegaard loses contact!

More worrying signs for Vingegaard.🐼 He's not dropping 🅰like a stone but he has lost the wheel again.

Vingegaard is back, but he's vulnerable.

Yates, Powles, Mad꧂er, Sivakov reach Jorgenson and Bardet... and Yates instantly attacks. 

Up front, Pogacar is leading the 🌸way but it's 🍬a lull for now.

The lull is seeing the chasers coming back to our three leaꦏders.

Yates, Powless, and Bardet have th🌳e leaders in sight

Gaudu attacks! 2.3km to go

Pogacar responds but Vingegaard is dropped!

Pogacar is right o𒈔n Gaudu an🔥d sitting in the wheel.

Gaudu has a ꧙g﷽reat finishing kick but Pogacar looks poised for a second stage win here.

Gaudu asks for a turn, he doesn't get one. 

Vingegaard can't respond to these attack♑s, but he's not imploding like the other day. He's clawing his way back.

Pogacar does come through now. 1500 me🅷tres 𒈔to the top.

Gaudu goes again! A slower attack now but he ratch🦄ets it up and up

A slight regrouping behind and they♛'re attacking each other. Sivakov and Jorgenson dropped as Powless goes with Yates, Mader, Bardet.

Final kilometre!

Jonas Vingegaard suffering behind Tadej Pogacar and David Gaudu

(Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Vingegaard claws his way back again...

🧜It's a trio once more and it's going to come down to the final kick to the line. 

It's clear Vingeg🃏aard doesn't have the legs for this. Pogacar looks the heavy favourite, but what can Gaudu do? And how far out does he go?

Gaudu leads it up, Pogacar and꧟ V🐈ingegaard in the wheel. 350m to go

Gaudu out os the saddle inꦺ the preamble. He looks around.

Vingegaard launches!

Pogacar is straight into action.

Vingegaard fades, Gaudu can💦't m🍒atch Pogacar either.

Pogacar punches the air, he's won it.

Ya𝕴tes takes fourth, then Powless, Mader, Bardet at 33 seconds. Sivakov and Jorgenson next at 40 seconds.

Tadej Pogačar wins stage 7 of Paris-Nice

Pogacar opened a two-second gap on Gaudu by the line. Once bonus seco𝄹nds are factored in, that means he doubles his overall lead from six seconds to 1𝄹2 seconds. Vingegaard is third on the stage at six seconds and third overall but now at 58 seconds.

Results

Let's hear from the stage winner and race leader

Dani Martinez has just cro🌠ssed the line, nearly 20 minu𝓰tes down.

Here's the winner's shot

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