Sky’s Henderson wins crashed filled P-N stage

March 8th, 2010 admin

New Zealand’s Greg Henderson (Team Sky) survived a crash-strewn first stage of Paris-Nice on Monday to take the sprint win ahead of Lampre’s Grega Bole and Saur Sojasun’s Jeremy Galland. Prologue winner Lars Boom finished with the front group and will retain his leader’s jersey, increasing his gap over second-placed Jens Voigt by winning two bonus seconds at intermediate sprints. Overall race favorite Alberto Contador crashed with less than 3 kilometers to go and quickly …


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