• The stars of cycling, including the last two winners of the Tour de France, meet on the roads of France for a week.
  • An important moment at the start of the season, this Paris-Nice will be the first eight-day race of the year on the UCI World Tour.
  • This race consists of eight stages, including a team time trial, and its programme includes five first category climbs.

Paris-Nice promises to be the unmissable appointment of this beginning of the cycling season, with a duel between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard that promises to make sparks.

Brilliant in the last Tours de France, the Slovenian and the Dane will fight a battle throughout the year 2023, with the big loop as a climax.

This Paris-Nice will be a warm-up tour, a real way to gain the psychological ascendancy over the other. Especially since Primoz Roglic, the last outgoing winner, is absent. As if he had slipped away to let the two stars confront each other.

Admittedly, the two climbers are favorites, but the Frenchmen David Gaudu and Romain Bardet will be nice outsiders. Belgian Lotto Dstny sprinter Arnaud De Lie will also have his say, like Mads Pedersen and Arnaud Démare, who will give everything on the flat. Germany's Maximilian Schachmann, winner in 2020 and 2021, can become the sixth man to win the event at least three times.

At what time and on which channel to watch the race?

Paris-Nice will be broadcast live on Frane 2, free-to-air, and on Eurosport 2, Eurosport.fr and the Eurosport app, for subscribers, from Sunday 5 March to Sunday 12 March.

The Nice-Paris 2023 race route

The start of the 81st edition of Paris-Nice will be given from La Verrière. The first two races will benefit the sprinters, with a team time trial, the first in thirty years.

The runners will cross the Auvergne and the Haut-Var, and the mountains. The last two days, in the hinterland of Nice, promise spectacle, as every year.

The Promenade des Anglais will host the finish of the race on Sunday, March 12.

Committed runners

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, the last two winners of the Tour de France, will be there. Gaudu, Bardet, Vauquelin, Martinez and O'Connor will be the riders to follow on this Race to the Sun.

The race calendar

1st stage (March 5): La Verrière – La Verrière (169.4km)

Stage 2 (March 6): Bazainville – Fontainebleau (163.7km)

Stage 3 (March 7): Dampierre-en-Burly – Dampierre-en-Burly (Team CLM – 32.2km)

Stage 4 (March 8): Saint-Amand-Montrond – La Loge des Gardes (164.7km)

Stage 5 (March 9): Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise – Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux (212.4km)

Stage 6 (March 10): Tourves – La Colle-sur-Loup (197.4km)

Stage 7 (March 11): Nice – Col de la Couillole (142.9km)

Stage 8 (March 12): Nice to Nice (118.4km)

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