{"id":544,"date":"2026-03-08T08:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=544"},"modified":"2026-03-08T08:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T08:42:09","slug":"niza-2026-jonas-vingegaard-principal-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Niza 2026: Jonas Vingegaard, principal candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This Sunday begins the 84th edition of the <strong>Paris &#8211; Nice<\/strong>the &#8216;Race of the Sun&#8217;, in which the Dane <strong>Jonas Vingegaard<\/strong> He presents himself as the main favorite once again, ready to take revenge for his particular bad fate. <\/p>\n<p>The Visma leader fell last year while leading the race, which his teammate eventually won <strong>Matteo Jorgenson<\/strong> (United States), who also scored a double. The two-time winner of the Tour de France has a podium in 2023 as his highest income, in a year that his great rival won <strong>Tadej Pogacar<\/strong>and also suffered a drop in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vingegaard <\/strong>aspires to get rid of the thorn this year, but it will not be easy for him due to the quality of his rivals. He <strong>UAE <\/strong>is presented without <strong>Pogacar<\/strong>without del Toro and without <strong>Joao Almeida<\/strong>last minute drop. Yes, Spanish will be there <strong>Marc Soler<\/strong>among others, winner of the test in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Another Spaniard, <strong>Juan Ayuso<\/strong>debuts as leader of the <strong>Lidl-Trek <\/strong>after having served several years in the UAE. As for ours, it is worth highlighting the presence of the young promise <strong>Ivan Romeo <\/strong>in the Spanish team <strong>Movistar Team<\/strong>. Also <strong>Ion Izagirre <\/strong>in Cofidis and <strong>Carlos Rodriguez <\/strong>at Ineos, among those confirmed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section\">\n<h2 class=\"ladillo\">Keys to the route<\/h2>\n<p>The &#8216;Race of the Sun&#8217; is the cycling way of celebrating the transition from winter to spring, alternating the Alpine snows with the sun of the C\u00f4te d&#8217;Azur, which is why it has also been translated as &#8216;<strong>Route to the sun<\/strong>&#8216;. Although it is called Paris &#8211; Nice, the start this year is in <strong>Acheres<\/strong>in the Yvelines department, on the outskirts of the French capital. <\/p>\n<p>Arrival is in <strong>A string<\/strong>but this year the traditional goal is altered in <strong>Walk of the English <\/strong>due to the <strong>municipal elections <\/strong>French. Instead, in this 84th edition we enter the <strong>Riviera Stadium<\/strong>after having traveled 1,245 km.<\/p>\n<p>This first stage in Yvelines presents a high mountain profile with a nervous finish and a route prone to wind fans. Another key moment will be <strong>third stage<\/strong>which consists of a <strong>team time trial <\/strong>of 23 km, which is followed by a 195 km marathon. At the end of the race it deepens into the mountainous terrain, highlighting the <strong>stage 7 <\/strong>with ending in <strong>height of Auron<\/strong>top notch.<\/p>\n<p>Enough ingredients to enjoy an exciting Paris-Nice that, as usual, we will see again live, open and free on Teledeporte and RTVE Play from March 8 to 15.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday begins the 84th edition of the Paris &#8211; Nicethe &#8216;Race of the Sun&#8217;,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}