Paris Nice 2022: Bad Timing

Sitting in third overall just a few seconds out of second place and barely a minute off the lead, Daniel Felipe Matinez (Ineos-Grenadiers) was sitting pretty in the elite group off the front of the very diminished peloton.  Unfortunately at the bottom of the penultimate climb of Paris Nice he had a flat tire.  With no team cars around, he got a rear wheel change from the Shimano neutral service vehicle that was just behind the quintet leading the stage and the race.  It was a quick change, but it left him unable to vie for stage honors or any hopes for moving up the general classification.  He rode hard enough that the poorly timed puncture didn't knock him off the podium of Paris Nice as he ended the race third overall.

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Paris Nice 2022: A Very Select Group

It has been a very hard Paris Nice and the final stage was no different.  On the penultimate climb up the Cote de Peille this very select group got off the front containing first, second, third and fifth on the general classification.  The odd man out was Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) in the Maillot Vert.  He was there to aid his team leader in the Maillot Jaune, Primoz Roglic.  The quintet was rounded out by Daniel Felipe Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers), Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic), and Simon Yates (BikeExchange-Jayco).  It seems that they were all able to stay with each other on this climb, but there is still the Col d'Eze.

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Paris Nice 2022: The Best Defense

Sometimes the best way to defend oneself from attacks is to launch one yourself (this does not apply to current tensions in eastern Europe).  That is exactly what Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) did.  He went hard with a couple of hundred meters left to race opening up space between himself an his rivals.  Daniel Felipe Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers) was able to stay on his wheel, but unable to come around the Maillot Jaune.  Martinez's ride moved him in to third overall.  He is now just thirteen seconds behind Simon Yates (BikeExhange-Jayco) who was third on the stage, but sits in second in the general classification.  Yet, with the time bonus for winning the stage and the small gaps, Roglic stretched his leaded out to 47 seconds and one minute respectively.  All Roglic has to do is not crash out tomorrow like he did in the Dauphine last year while in Yellow.

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Paris Nice 2022: Trading Punches

This foursome seemed to be very equally matched.  Each time one would go on the attack the others would catch back on.  Some took a little longer than others, but yet thus far they kept coming back together. Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) dropped back to the back where he could keep a close eye on each person who went on a runner and then decide if he needed to chase. Just in front of him is Simon Yates (BikeExchange-Jayco) who is only 39 seconds back on GC.  But it looks like Daniel Felipe Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers), who started the day almost a minute behind the Maillot Jaune, is giving it another go.  With these three is Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) who has gotten himself closer since his poor showing in the time trial, now just over a minute and a half off the pace.  With just a kilometer left to race, it is going to take a heroic attack combined with a complete collapse to bring about any substantial reordering of the general classification.  Stanger things have happened, and they have happened in this 80th edition of the race to the sun, Paris Nice.

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Paris Nice 2022: In Control

I imagine that Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) was tired of being attacked repeatitively on the climb up the Col de Turini, so he went off on his own.  When he went everyone tried to go with him but only the Colombian, Daniel Felipe Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers) was able to hold onto the Slovenian's wheel.  With six kilometers left to climb, this could be the order that finishes the day.  Although I am sure those just behind will try and have something to say about that.

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Paris Nice 2022: The Attacks Had to Come

Many had tried to challenge the dominance of Jumbo-Visma on the final categorized climb but as long as Rohan Dennis was on the front setting the pace for his team leader, Primoz Roglic, no one had the legs to get away.  Or to even try to get away for that matter.  But once Dennis popped, and the rest of Roglic's teammates were already gone, it was time to try to take back time.  Others had already gotten away, but they were minutes behind the virtual yellow jersey of Roglic.  This is Daniel Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers) going up the road on the final climb that didn't rate a categorization.  That didn't mean it wasn't a hard climb though.  Martinez was close enough that he was chased down, eventually.  But inroads were made on the Jumbo-Visma leader.  Yet all those that were less than a minute away didn't gain any time on the new Maillot Jaune.

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Tour, Stage 18: It Doesn't Get Any Easier

 There is an adage in cycling that seems to be attributed to Greg Lemond the only American to win the Tour that has not had is victories expunged for doping.  He is quoted as saying that riding never gets easier, you just get faster.  This was the opposite for this quartet on the lower slopes of the Montee du plateau des Glieres.  Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) was drifted back through the peloton having once been in the break away.  He is now hoping to latch on to the EF Cycling trio of their leader, Rigoberto Uran and his domestiques Daniel Felipe Martinez and Hugh Carthy.  It may not be fair to call Martinez a domestique, after all he has won a mountain top finish stage in this year's Tour.

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Tour, Stage 13: Beating the Odds

 Despite the odds being against him, Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) was able to drop both Maximilian Schachmann (Bora-Hasgrohe) and just fading from view, the other Bora man, Lennard Kamna.  Martinez was able to make his team look brilliant for putting three guys in the early break.  Behind, his team leader Rigoberto Uran, lost a handful of seconds to the Maillot Juane, but he is still within striking distance should those ahead on the GC falter.  But for now, the team can celebrate their frist stage victory in the 107th Tour de France (the Tour that almost wasn't).

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Tour, Stage 13: Waiting in the Wings

 I may be revealing my theatre background with this title.  I have worked as a scenic artist and a set designer and then I also have the great pleasure of being married to the actress, Bridget Gethins (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315220/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1).  So the title refers to the position of Lennard Kamna (Bora-Hansgrohe) who has sat on the wheel of Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) as he bridged up to Kamna's teammate, Maximilian Schachmann.  Martinez had to just ignore the other German from Bora has he went in search of the stage victory atop the Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol.  Martinez's team had put three guys in the break and he was the third to attack in hopes of the stage.  Bora-Hansgrohe obviously had two guys in the break and they were still there with just two kilometers to race.  Odds are one of the two would take the stage.

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Tour, Stage 13: Down in the Super Tuck

The American, Nielson Powless (EF Pro Cycling) is a demon descender.  He let the rest of the large break away down the other side of the mountain in what has come to be known as the super tuck.  It is when a rider comes off the saddle, sits on the main tube and gets as low over the handle bars as possible.  It is not very stable or safe, but it is aero-dynamic. Behind the stone falling down the mountain are Pavel Sivakov (Ineos-Grenadiers) who had finally recovered from his double falls in stage one, along with Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic) and Marc Soler (Movistar) amongst others.  EF was in a great tactical position having put three men into the seventeen man break, it is their stage to lose.  Only Bora-Hansgrohe had managed to get more than one guy into this front group.

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Tour, Stage 2: Just About Back

Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) had the misfortune of crashing on the penultimate descent of the day, the Col d'Eze.  With just three teammates up the road, two of whom were the teams GC contenders, it took some time of the only available teammate, Hugh Carthy, to drop back to help out.  The EF duo road incredible hard through the streets of Nice in their successful attempt to rejoin the peloton.  Sadly for Martinez, the effort left him unable to hang on to the peloton on the final climb up the Col des Quatre Chemins.  The lost time most likely ruined his chances of repeating his Maillot Jaune winning Criterium de Dauphine, but the team still has two cards to play in the race for the Yellow Jersey.

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