Paris-Great: Matteo Jorgenson secures total as Magnus Sheffield solos to degree 8 win

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Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) celebrates the degree victory(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Matteo Trentin (Tudor) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) lead an assault(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Neilson Powless (EF Schooling-EasyPost) tries a transfer early on degree 8(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)A protracted view of the peloton all over degree 8(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Mads Pedersen is going at the assault solo(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)The riders go a bridge all over the degree(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Rent A Motorcycle) within the peloton all over degree 8(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Ineos Grenadiers lead the GC team mid-stage(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Aleksandr Vlasov (Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) assaults(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Vlasov and Pedersen in a overdue assault with Felix Gall and Magnus Sheffield(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Sheffield soloing to Great(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Jorgenson celebrates his total victory on the end(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)Mads Pedersen got here house in twentieth position with the fairway jersey within the bag(Symbol credit score: Getty Photographs)

The solar shone brightly on two US riders at the ultimate day of Paris-Great, with Magnus Sheffield (Ineos Grenadiers) profitable degree 8 in great and compatriot Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Rent a Motorcycle) completing 2d to protected the GC victory.

Sheffield introduced a solo assault at the brutal Col des Quatre Chemins climb with 12.5km to move, having dropped Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) within the procedure, the Dane probably the most lively rider in his quest to protected the dash classification award.

In the meantime, Jorgenson matched many assaults at the 119.9km day of mountain climbing, in the end making his technique to the lead chase team, and the usage of the short descent into Great to go the road 29 seconds in the back of Sheffield.

Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R Los angeles Mondiale) finished the degree podium in 3rd, 26 seconds forward of a gaggle of six chasers, which incorporated Florian Lipowitz (Crimson Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), who fought to carry directly to 2d total.

Jorgenson made it back-to-back GC titles on the Race to the Solar, this time with a margin of one:15 over Lipowitz and 1:58 over Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers). Sheffield’s tough trip moved him two spots within the GC, and he completed 19 seconds in the back of his Ineos teammate for fourth total.

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