Nice. In a spectacular echelon stage, where Visma | Lease a Bike and INEOS Grenadiers dealt a heavy blow to teams, including UAE Team Emirates XRG, Pedersen was the best in a group of seventeen riders.

Denmark's Mads Pedersen wins stage six of the Paris-Nice as Matteo Jorgenson capitalises on the withdrawal of Jonas Vingegaard to extend his overall race lead.

Visma-Lease a Bike split up racing on planned sprint stage, with Tarling and Watson taking second and third for Ineos

Jonas Vingegaard's early preparations for the Tour de France hit a bump on Friday when the Danish rider pulled out of the Paris-Nice race with a hand injury.

A Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) victory might suggest normal scheduling at Paris-Nice, but stage six was far from it, torn apart by echelons, which ended some riders’ GC hopes. Wind and rain laid waste to the peloton on Friday as it headed towards Berre l’Étang on the Mediterranean coast.