the belgian Wout Van Aert (Jumbo Visma), winner of the fourth time trial stage and new leader, hopes to wear the leader’s jersey of the Paris-Nice until his partner and leader of the ranks, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic, takes it away from him..
“I hope to wear the yellow jersey until Primoz Roglic takes it from me. That is my only goal. The most difficult stages come now and for me many beautiful things will come later. We will start tomorrow and we will enjoy this jersey, and we will see day after day,” said the Belgian champion.
The Jumbo Visma team achieved the first three positions in the time trial and maintained the full standings of the general classification, as part of an infallible week. “So far it has been a perfect week, especially in the team that we have in this race.. We are demonstrating why we have come to Paris Nice. We have all come out motivated and once again we have taken the podium”, he pointed out.
A demanding time trial in which Wout Van Aert He led Roglic by 2 seconds and Rohan Dennis by 6.
“The director put the win time at around 17 minutes and then Rohan Dennis did like 16:26, which would be hard to beat. It was not an easy time trial because the road was always going up and down, you couldn’t find a constant rhythmespecially in the last part.