Dan Martin was attentive in the final of stage 5 at Paris-Nice and avoided the late losses suffered by other riders. It was an undulating day in the saddle that saw the field split.
Dan Martin has made some key splits on stage 5 of Paris-Nice and avoided losing time.
The Irish rider, with UAE Team Emirates, was one of just 40 riders to finish in the yellow jersey group today.
Jerome Cousin (Direct Energie) took the stage win ahead of Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin).
They survived from the early escape. Cousin would prevail in a nail biting game of cat and mouse in the closing stages.
In the end the leading pair were just four seconds ahead of the yellow jersey group of Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana).
Dan Martin was also in that group; taking 38th on the day. Nicolas Roche (BMC Racing) was a little further back; finishing 65th some 26 seconds down.
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Martin remains 22nd overall, at 1:36. Roche is in 44th at 4:01.
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Stage 6 tomorrow, Friday, is a 198km trek from Sisteron to Vence. There four cat 2 ascents in the second half of the race.
The cat 1 Cote de la Colle Sur Loup crested just 5km from the finish.
Saturday’s penultimate stage is 175km from Nice to Valdeblore La Colmiane.
There are three cat 2 climbs and two cat 1s; the final ascent the cat 1 to the summit finish.
As it did last year; the racing may once again go right down to the wire on the final stage.
It starts and finishes in Nice and is just 110km; with four cat climbs and two cat 1s before the tradition drop down into Nice for the seafront finale.
Stage 5: Salon-de-Provence to Sisteron (165km)
1 Jerome Cousin (Fra) Direct Energie 3:57:25
2 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:00:02
3 André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal 0:00:04
4 Magnus Cort (Den) Astana Pro Team
5 Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAE Team Emirates
6 Christophe Laporte (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits
7 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Mitchelton-Scott
8 Mike Teunissen (Ned) Team Sunweb
9 Matti Breschel (Den) EF Education First-Drapac p/b Cannondale
10 Koen de Kort (Ned) Trek-Segafredo
11 Timo Roosen (Ned) LottoNL-Jumbo
12 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
13 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Direct Energie
14 Felix Grossschartner (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe
15 Ivan Garcia (Spa) Bahrain-Merida
38 Dan Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates
65 Nicolas Roche (Irl) BMC Racing Team 0:00:26
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