Male Team 06 - 13 Mar
Paris-Nice
1196 Kilometers 8 Stages
The race will be broadcast live on Teledeporte, Eurosport and GCN.
There will be 10-6-4″ at the finish of all seven road stages, plus 3-2-1″ at intermediate sprints.
The Abarca Sports organisation has five overall victories to its name in Paris-Nice, claimed by Miguel Indurain (1989, 1990), Jean-François Bernard (1992), Luis León Sánchez (2009) and Marc Soler (2018).
Paris-Nice will be reaching no less than 80 editions in 2022, its route for this year repeating the elements which make it so prestigious and characteristic: nervous, windy opening stages, a time trial, grueling mid-mountain route and a tough MTF next to the Côte d’Azur, towards which this staple of the cycling ‘spring’ always navigates.
Mantes-la-Ville (Sunday 6th) will be home to a tricky stage one with four Cat-3 hills just outside Paris. The sprinters will then try to take advantage on Monday 7th, should crosswinds not avoid it, of their only clear change in Orléans, before another lumpy route, still suited to them, in Dun-le-Palestel (Tuesday 8th), prior to the race’s ITT. A 13.4km will take the riders to Montluçon (Wednesday 9th), including a tough final slope, 700m at 9%.
Breakaways and fearless riders will have their chances on Thursday 10th, with five rated ascents including the Col de la Mure (Cat-1), and Friday 11th, over no less than 214km and five other climbs. The weekend will, just as usual, bring the decisive stage: the ‘unipuerto’ finish atop the Col de Turini (Cat-1), on Saturday 12th, and the always-breathtaking Nice showdown (Sunday 13th), over five other climbs and the Col d’Eze (Cat-1) just 15km before the end.