Paris-Nice 2024 Route stage 8: Nice

Paris-Nice 2024 Route stage 8: Nice - Nice

Sunday 10 March - At 109.3 kilometres and featuring six climbs, the final stage of Paris-Nice is expected to be an explosive race. The finale is a 9 kilometres drop down to the line on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice.

The race opens on a false flat to Saint-Martin-du-Var before the Côte de Levens adds more salt and pepper to it. Following the 6.1 kilometres climb at 4.9% the route moves through the village Levens. A downhill leads to the foot of the Côte de Chateauneuf, which is a 5.4 kilometres climb at 4.6%. The race is 37 kilometres underway at the top.

The riders descend to Contes only to return to climbing on the 6.3 kilometres ascent at 6% to Berre-les-Alpes. An 11 kilometres drop – gentle and steady – leads to the Côte De Peille. The ascent is 6.5 kilometres long and the average gradient sits at 6.9%, so this is arguably the toughest task of the day. Another long descent takes the riders to the village Èze, at the foot of the famous climb with the same name.

Climbing from Nice, the Col d’Èze is fairly long, but if you hit the col from this side it is a punchy 1.6 kilometres drag at 8.1%. After reaching the summit the riders drop down to Nice before they turn back to the mountains for one last time.

A mountain within the agglomeration of Nice, that is. The Col des Quatre Chemins is an ascent of 3.6 kilometres at 8.8% before the riders fly down a 9 kilometres descent back into Nice. The finish is on the Promenade des Anglais overlooking the Mediterranean.

Effectually, the Quatre Chemins is the first part of the Col d’Èze from Nice on the hardest side. It was also included in the last two editions, although the riders then continued to the summit, while they turn right this time, thus trimming a part from the downhill.

Last year, Tadej Pogacar left Simon Yates, Jonas Vingegaard and David Gaudu behind on the Quatre Chemins to solo to victory (via de Col d’Èze). The Slovene copy-pasted Simon Yates’ approach of two years ago. The Briton dropped Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and Nairo Quintana on the steepest ramps and won the stage solo.

The first three riders on the line gain time bonuses of 10, 6 and 4 seconds, while the intermediate sprint comes with 6, 4 and 2 seconds.

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Another interesting read: results 8th stage and final GC 2024 Paris-Nice.