Jumbo-Visma storm to team time trial win on Paris-Nice stage three

EF Education-EasyPost's Magnus Cort takes leader's yellow jersey thanks to flying final kilometre

Jumbo-Visma
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Jumbo-Visma showed its power against the clock to win the stage three team time trial at Paris-Nice, but failed to take the leader's yellow jersey as EF Education-EasyPost's Magnus Cort stormed home to claim the top spot in the general classification.

The change to the rules of the TTT, with time being taken on the first rider rather than the fourth or fifth, did not shake up the majority of the stage, but Cort's attack inside the final kilometre ensured he, rather than Jumbo's Nathan van Hooydonck, claimed the yellow jersey.

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Adam Becket
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Adam is Cycling Weekly’s news editor – his greatest love is road racing but as long as he is cycling on tarmac, he's happy. Before joining Cycling Weekly he spent two years writing for Procycling, where he interviewed riders and wrote about racing, speaking to people as varied as Demi Vollering to Philippe Gilbert. Before cycling took over his professional life, he covered ecclesiastical matters at the world’s largest Anglican newspaper and politics at Business Insider. Don't ask how that is related to cycling.