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Paris-Nice is back on Sunday, March 8, and so is Jonas Vingegaard in what will be one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of 2026.<\/p>\n
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The grand tour gal\u00e1ctico<\/em> kickstarts his season Sunday at the \u201cRace to the Sun\u201d after a spell of injury and illness, and he won\u2019t be offered an easy start to his audacious Giro-Tour season.<\/p>\n Jo\u00e3o Almeida, Juan Ayuso, and a GC triple threat from Ineos Grenadiers will also be elbowing for victory at the prestigious French race.<\/p>\n Biniam Girmay headlines the stage-hunters in a premium WorldTour event that\u2019s surprisingly short of top sprinters.<\/p>\n Two-time Paris-Nice champion Matteo Jorgenson won\u2019t be defending his title after he tweaked his calendar to take an Italian pathway through the spring. The U.S. star will instead be racing at the overlapping Tirreno-Adriatico stage-race.<\/p>\n \u2600 Direction la Riviera ! Voici le parcours de #ParisNice 2026.<\/p>\n \u2600 Direction Riviera! Here is the route of #ParisNice 2026. pic.twitter.com\/VSOuRO72dp<\/p>\n \u2014 Paris-Nice (@ParisNice) December 17, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Believe it or not, the team time trial on stage 3 of this year\u2019s Paris-Nice will be a must-watch.<\/p>\n The 24km test will follow the \u201cASO method\u201d of allocating GC times. Riders will be awarded their own time at the line, rather than teams being blanket-applied the time of their fourth or fifth finisher.<\/p>\n The format will next be used at the grand<\/em> d\u00e9part<\/em> of the Tour de France, making Tuesday\u2019s stage a crucial dry-run of team dynamics and pacing strategies.<\/p>\n Be sure to also tune in for the hilly double-whammy on the final weekend of the 8-day race.<\/p>\n A summit finish on Saturday and a multi-climb canter around Nice on Sunday will determine who takes the distinctive golden trophy.<\/p>\n Live broadcasts will be hosted worldwide, and highlights packages will be available to a wider array of networks. Information for key territories can be found below.<\/p>\n Stages typically finish at around 1700 CET, although stage 7 to the summit of Auron is scheduled to wrap up at around 1500 CET.<\/p>\n Stage 1: Ach\u00e8res \u2013 Carrieres-sous-Poissy: 171km <\/div>\n <\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/how-to-watch-paris-nice-2026\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vingo1.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 5, 2026 09:45AM Paris-Nice is back on Sunday, March 8, and so is Jonas Vingegaard in what will be one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of 2026. The grand tour gal\u00e1ctico kickstarts his season Sunday at the \u201cRace to the Sun\u201d after a spell of injury and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1810771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1810771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1810771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1810771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1810771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
How to watch Paris-Nice 2026<\/h2>\n
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Paris-Nice: Sunday March 8 \u2013 Sunday March 15<\/h3>\n
\nStage 2: \u00c9p\u00f4ne \u2013 Montargis: 187km
\nStage 3 (TTT): Cosne-Cours-Sur-Loire \u2013 Pouilly-Sur-Loire: 24km
\nStage 4: Bourges \u2013 Uchon: 195km
\nStage 5: Cormoranche-sur-Sa\u00f4ne \u2013 Colombier-Le-Vieux: 205km
\nStage 6: Barbentane \u2013 Apt: 179.3km
\nStage 7: Nice \u2013 Auron: 138.7km
\nStage 8: Nice \u2013 Nice: 145km<\/p>\nHow to watch Paris-Nice 2026:<\/h3>\n
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