David Millar made a great start to his 2007 season when he took a narrow but convincing victory in the opening 4.7 kilometre hilly prologue time trial of Paris-Nice on Sunday afternoon. It was the first British stage win in the Course Au Soleil since Chris Boardman won the prologue of Paris-Nice back in 1999.
Despite his saddle coming a little loose on the false flat close to the summit, Millar produced a faultless performance on the short and hilly course in the Paris suburbs.He was a second slower than his team-mate Remmert Wielinga (who finally finished eighth) at the mid-way check point but held his nerve and tore down the highly technical descent to the finish, ending the course a second faster than former junior World road-race champion Roman Kreuzinger of Liquigas. France?s Sebastian Joly of Franciase des Jeux was third, two seconds further down.
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