Santiago Buitrago wins the first mountain stage of Paris-Nice

In general new decoration, with Plapp in front with 13 seconds on Buitrago and 27 on former leader Brandon McNulty. Almeida was 29 and Evenepoel as the real leader at 30. Now on Remco, Bernal is 10 seconds away, Rodríguez is 32 and Roglic is 40.

The quarter-mile, disputed between Chalon-sur-Saône and Mont Brouilly, of 183 km, It offered a mountain without respite with 7 passes and 3,400 meters of accumulated unevenness. No jokes in the first high-level exam.

Day of ordeal for the sprinters, who immediately fell behind the pack after a quick start, where 46 were covered in the first hour, the prelude to a succession of climbs that did not intimidate the brave regulars. This time De Buyst (Lotto Dstny), Bisseger, Scaroni and Burgaudeau fled.

An adventure that dissolved in the rain as the passes sapped the strength of the runners. Scaroni was the most rebellious, filming alone as the last survivor until Roglic’s Bora decided to set a hunting pace.

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Scaroni crossed the finish line for the first time at the top of Mont Brouilly, 38 km from the final finish and with a 20-second advantage over an already reduced peloton. Gorka Izagirre (Cofidis) and Marc Soler (UAE), both retired, were no longer in the running. On the way down, a select group of pursuers formed and finally absorbed the fugitive.

The main difficulty of the stage was the Col du Fût d’Avenas – Les Chappes (1a, 5.2 km at 7.2), but first, in the bonus sprint of Régnié-Durette the big favorites came out on stage. Evenepoel beat Roglic by speed, and in the process 6 seconds of prize, for the Slovenian 4.