Paris-Nice Stage 1: Saint Rémy lès Chevreuse > Contres, 196.5kms
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Let me in, let me in - Michal Kwiatkowski follows his bigger teamates on to the signature podium...
Jonathan Hivert has taken off alone in the opening kilometres..
Hivert has achieved his aim of taking the day's only climbing points - and sits up to await the peloton...
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Andrew Talansky is showing off his green and black colours of the new Cannondale-Garmin team - can he win this race for them..?
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Thomas Voeckler has escaped with Anthony Delaplace, and this time they're not waiting for the peloton...
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Michael Matthews is the best young rider for the day, and he might be the stage-winner too...
A peaceful landscape absorbs the Paris-Nice peloton as it dwadles south...
Etixx and Ag2r have started to accelerate, just a little...
Voeckler and Delaplace are about six minutes in front and have the time to chat...
Etixx has started to accelerate - no, really they have..!
Philippe Gilbert has plenty of time to adjust his shoes now...
Voeckler and Delaplace have saved their best for the last, they're holding a two-minute lead with 20-kilometres to go..
