2021 Paris-Nice Stage 8 Results & Recap
Stage 8 of the 2021 Paris-Nice is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Roglic loses overall to Schachmann on final stage\nBy Clara Beard
"No gifts in cycling" seems to have been the theme this week at Paris-Nice. Those words rang true on the final stage today, when Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) had his first Paris Nice title slip after crashing, not once, but twice on the shortened 93km stage to Levens. Roglic's bad luck started after a tumble at 22 km, and was impeded again with 25 km to go. Jumbo Visma tried to offer support, but Roglic ended up isolated for the latter part of the stage while Bora cranked up the pace at the front. His misfortune handed a conflicted Maximilian Schachmann (Bora - Hansgrohe) the overall, his second in two years.
"It was a crazy day," Schachmann said. "I have mixed feelings because Roglic crashed, he also crashed twice. I don’t know if it was his mistake. But I had a puncture before the first climb and I had to go deep to go back and nobody waited for me. Then Roglic crashed and we waited and suddenly he crashed again and there was a break ahead and we were going for the victory of the day. I don’t know if I can be happy, it’s not nice to win like that. It’s very difficult. Anyway, it’s great. It was a goal to do it again and suddenly I’m on the podium again even if it’s a different scenario from last year. I don’t know what to say. I was improving. I came here from a training camp and I was feeling tired and I got better despite a cold. The team did a great job, I’m very proud of them. We’re going to enjoy it now."
Magnus Cort Nielsen (Ef Education - Nippo) won the final stage out of a reduced sprint. Frenchman Christian Laporte (Cofidis) finished second.
"It was perfect to finish like that," the Danish rider said. "I could not be more happy. It was a very tense stage with that lap to do three times over. It was hard to predict, there were lots of breakaways, Roglic crashed twice and then we could do the sprint. It was very hectic in the last few kilometres as there was no train to keep the speed up and keep positions. You had to do it on your own. I had seen the finish coming around two times, I knew it was fast and there was a small corner before the finish. I thought that if I was first at that corner, nobody could come around so I tried to get to that corner first and nobody came around.
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