The UAE wins the Paris-Nice team time trial and places McNulty as the leader

The Emirati team UAE Team Emirates This Tuesday he won the third stage of the Paris-Niceheld in Auxerre over 26.9 kilometers, with a good margin over the rest of the teams and perhaps somewhat benefited by starting without rain, while the last to start did so with part or all of the route under water.

He UAE Team Emirates In any case, he did a great time trial with a devilish pace through the streets and surroundings of Auxerre, and this allowed him to place the American Brandon McNulty as the new leader of the provisional general.

Although in 2024 the innovative format from last year was continued in which the time at the finish line was not set by the fourth runner, as usually happens, but by the first of the team to cross the finish line, no one was seen. leader or great specialist choose to go alone and leave aside his companions.

Yes it is true that the BORA-hansgrohethe Slovenian’s new team Primoz Roglic, decided to push and finish with three runners, leaving the weakest ones behind halfway. Others, like Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step), they only sprinted at the end and, as for the winner UAE Team Emirates, they also reached the finish line with four members and with the Spanish Marc Solerthe fifth in contention, very close.

With a time of 31:23 and an average speed of 51,429 kilometers per hour, Joao Almeida, Brandon McNulty, Finn Fisher-Black and Jay Vine They gave the victory to the UAE, with to usually do at 41 seconds. The second team was Team Jayco AlUla15 seconds away, and the third best group was EF Education-EasyPostto 20.

He Soudal-Quick Step of Remco Evenepoel He was fourth at 22 seconds, thanks to that final sprint by the Belgian champion, and the INEOS Grenadiers He equaled that same time, fifth, entering with Carlos Rodriguez, Jonathan Castroviejo and Egan Bernal among the fastest.

And more lost the Team Visma (38 seconds) or the BORA of Roglic (54 seconds), after that failed tactic of staying with just three men. Without a doubt, to make him look at the Movistar Teampenultimate 1:56 minutes behind the winners despite having Ruben Guerreiro, Will Barta, Albert Torres either Remi Cavagnasigned as a great specialist against the clock.

In general, it is Brandon McNulty the best placed and the new leader of the ‘Carrera del Sol’, equal in times with his teammates Fisher-Black, Almeida and Came. Remco Evenepoel He is the first big ‘rooster’, eighth, 18 seconds behind the American.