00:00 very very well this has been a great ride by UAE Team Emirates
00:05 Pogacar then in the white jersey he crosses the line
00:08 a second fastest time
00:12 onto the all-important third stage of Paris-Nice featuring the first team time
00:25 trial at this race in 30 years on paper Jumbo-Visma are the team to beat
00:30 with specialists like Jonas Vingegaard, Eduardo Affini,
00:33 Rohan Dennis, Jan Tratnik and Tobias Voss the current world champion
00:38 Tadej Pogacar may have picked up 12 bonus seconds so far
00:41 but the Slovenian is likely to find himself on the back foot
00:45 even if he has faith in UAE Team Emirates
00:48 we can expect that we will we will give everyone
00:52 more than 100 percent and then yeah i hope we stop the clock really fast and
00:58 to do a good time i think i'm in a good spot right now
01:02 but yeah we will see when we hit the big mountains
01:08 the course is straightforward enough 32.2 kilometers of flat roads with three
01:12 big turns on an anti-clockwise triangle around
01:15 Dompierre on Burly but the format is slightly different
01:19 the times will be taken from the first rider to cross the line rather than the
01:22 fourth man as usual and that could make for some fireworks
01:26 in the final
01:30 I think it's an exercise that is not quite put into value with this format
01:32 a little special too it will change a little the final
01:36 the fisionomy of the final and it will be quite impressive i think
01:39 Do you think this new rule will change anything?
01:42 Just in the last kilometers you have to stay on a classic pattern
01:45 before and it will really be in the last two or three
01:48 kilometers that we will have riders who will really sacrifice themselves
01:52 and a kind of train like a sprint
01:57 Lotto Destiny were the first team down the ramp at 2.57pm
02:03 with the rest setting off at three minute intervals the strongest of the
02:06 early starters was Jaco Alula with Simon Yates supported by a strong
02:10 Australian core and former Italian TT champion Matteo
02:14 Sobrero Danny Martinez and the Ineos Grenadiers
02:18 also in the mix as Jaco Alula set the time to beat
02:24 all the way to the line for Jaco Alula it's Yates and Matthews
02:28 and they are going to go well to the top of the leaderboard
02:32 56.8 kilometers an hour 43 seconds faster
02:40 it was soon time for the big favorites to get underway with all eyes on the
02:46 battle between Pagacar and Vingegaard but there looked to be a few teething
02:50 problems for UAE when they hit the course
02:54 UAE team members this is a little bit messy
02:59 wow and this is only the start of this time trial Felix Groschatner having all
03:03 sorts of issues
03:06 not a great day for Ineos who came in 44 seconds down on Jaco
03:10 Bahrain Victorious, Movistar and DSM ended up with similar times
03:14 better though from Bora Hansgrohe and Groupama FDJ
03:20 favorites Jumbo Visma were among the late starters Vingegaard with a stellar
03:24 supporting cast including the two-time world champion
03:27 Dennis the current world champion Foss and the Slovenian champion Tratnik
03:31 not to mention Afini and Van Huydenk
03:35 but did they have enough firepower to overhaul Jaco Alula
03:41 well nobody else was getting anywhere near that scratch time
03:44 Romain Bardet coming to the line solo for DSM also conceding 44 seconds
03:51 Jumbo Visma on a mission but they were only one second up on Yates and Co at
03:56 the intermediate checkpoint and how about Pagacar well he was still
04:00 going with Mikael Bjerg and preparing for a final dash to the line
04:05 and here goes Pagacar launched like a missile and he's going to sprint his way
04:09 to the top of this rise now Pagacar looking to put himself as close
04:13 to the other riders as possible UAE have limited the loss very very well
04:19 this has been a great ride by UAE Team Emirates
04:22 Pagacar then in the white jersey he crosses the line
04:26 a second fastest time impressive from UAE even better from Groupama FDJ
04:33 with Stefan Kuhn guiding David Godo to second place
04:36 Jumbo Visma hot on their heels this is going to be the sprint for the line now
04:41 it's counting down Wengergaard gets ready to go for yellow and it's going to
04:46 be right on the finish line a win here so far for Jumbo Visma
04:51 four seconds is the beating of J.Ko Alula
04:57 Trek-Segafredo were the last team to go with their race leader Matt Pedersen
05:02 whose yellow jersey looked to be heading to Jumbo Visma
05:06 but EF Education Easypost had other ideas
05:09 putting in a superb performance and leaving Magnus Kort
05:12 yet another down in the hunt for the stage honors and the overall lead
05:18 here's the arrival of EF Education Easypost
05:21 is this going to be the win in time this is looking very very good indeed
05:26 in fact it could be the win in time EF Education Easypost
05:30 what's it going to be this is tight so close
05:34 second fastest again by just over a second
05:39 what an incredible ride
05:43 oh so close yet again for EF Education Easypost
05:47 who also missed out on victory by a second at the UAE Tour
05:50 but there is a nice consolation prize for Kort in the shape of the yellow
05:54 jersey the great Dane has 25 career wins
05:58 including two in Portugal this year but this is the very first time that he
06:02 has worn a leader's jersey at a world tour race
06:07 for sure i'm very happy you know and and you can't expect to come in yellow but
06:15 we were dreaming big today we had a really strong team for this
06:18 team time trial so yeah it's not completely
06:22 unexpected now the goal is to keep the jersey on your shoulders it's not going
06:27 to be an easy task tomorrow is a hard day
06:29 yeah it is unfortunately quite hard tomorrow but
06:33 for sure i'll do i'll do my best of course
06:37 Jumbo Visma taking the win by a slender margin from EF and Jayco
06:42 Groupama FDJ 14 seconds back with UAE limiting their losses to 23 seconds
06:48 that puts Vingegaard 11 seconds ahead of Pagacar overall
06:55 it was important for you to hit hard to gain precious seconds on today Pagacar
07:00 and others for the for the GC yeah of course i mean it's a today's
07:04 very important stage of course maybe in the end we had hoped
07:08 to gain even more but yeah we take every second we can get
07:12 and i'm of course very very happy with how
07:15 how the outcome is
07:18 Kort leads by a second from Van Hoidonk followed by Matthews, Trapnik,
07:22 Vingegaard and Yates. Pagacar is 10th just ahead of Godu
07:26 but Haig, Bardet, Martinez and Jorgensen are all 50 seconds off the pace
07:31 Pedersen trades the yellow jersey for the green jersey he still leads the
07:34 points classification ahead of Olaf Kooij
07:37 no changes in the mountains classification either Jonas Gregar is
07:41 still in polka dots but Kellen O'Brien has snatched the
07:44 white jersey from Pagacar after Jayco Alula's fine performance
07:48 the young Australian with a three-second advantage
07:53 in tomorrow's fourth stage it'll be time to hit the heights with the first summit
07:58 finish to La Loge des Garde it's also a first proper showdown
08:01 between Pagacar and Vingegaard the stage begins in Saint-Amant-Monroe
08:06 the hometown of Julian Alaphilippe which welcomes Paris Nice for the eighth
08:09 time there are three climbs in all including a final hike of 6.7 kilometers
08:14 at 7.1 percent it should be a fascinating stage
08:18 so do join us again on Wednesday and thanks for watching
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