Carlos Betancur wins Paris-Nice stage six to take overall lead

Team Sky's Geraint Thomas relinquishes lead to Carlos Betancur on tough stage to Fayence

Carlos Betancur wins stage six of the 2014 Paris-Nice

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Carlos Betancur (Ag2r) won stage six of Paris-Nice on Friday - his second victory in two days - attacking on the final climb in Fayence to secure the overall race lead.

World champion Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) placed second, with Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) in third. Geraint Thomas (Sky) placed fourth, but it wasn't enough to keep hold of the yellow jersey and he now sits in second place on GC at eight seconds.

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