{"id":198181,"date":"2025-03-17T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=198181"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:13:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:13:34","slug":"jorgenson-wins-chaotic-paris-nice-as-vingegaard-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/03\/17\/jorgenson-wins-chaotic-paris-nice-as-vingegaard-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorgenson Wins Chaotic Paris-Nice as Vingegaard Crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a cold, wet, chaotic and thrilling week of racing as Visma\u2013Lease a Bike\u2019s Matteo Jorgenson won Paris-Nice for the second time in a row. But it wasn\u2019t all good news for Visma as Jonas Vingegaard crashed and was forced to abandon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A Grand Tour in his future?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 25-year-old American showed by his performance that he has become a superb rider, destined to be one of Visma\u2013Lease a Bike\u2019s primary weapons in the future, perhaps even at a Grand Tour. He has become an excellent climber, a terrific time trial rider and has a refined strategic intelligence. He rode without team support for most of the final stage and managed to outwit and outride all of his GC rivals.<\/p>\n

However, he owed much of his advantage to his team. Jorgenson took over the race lead after the stage 3 team time trial, which Visma\u2013Lease a Bike won by 14 seconds over Jayco-AlUla. Then, with about 60 km left to ride on stage 6, Visma destroyed the peloton with a brutal attack in the wind that left behind all but two of his closest rivals. Only 16 riders managed to stay in that leading group, with arch-rival Jo\u00e3o Almeida<\/a> (UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG) left dangling in the wind, eventually finishing 1:54 behind Jorgenson.\u00a0He eventually finished almost 4 minutes behind the winner.<\/p>\n

Jorgenson\u2019s final margin over second-place Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe) was 1:15. Thymen Arensman of INEOS Grenadiers finished third, at 1:58. INEOS\u2019s Magnus Sheffield won Sunday\u2019s final stage, by 29 seconds over Jorgenson. It was his first World Tour victory and added to the very good week the British team enjoyed as it appears to be turning around its recent run of misfortune and bad form.<\/p>\n

After winning the race last year, Jorgenson had described his victory as \u201ca dream.\u201d This year he said, \u201cIt\u2019s a relief more than anything. There\u2019s a lot of stress coming off me now. I\u2019ve been thinking about this race for four months.\u201d<\/p>\n

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