Boonen sprints to 100th career victory
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March 7, 2012, Wednesday
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TOM Boonen of Belgium led a sprint finish to win a wind-swept second stage of the Paris-Nice race on Monday, as Bradley Wiggins of Britain displayed savvy riding to wrest the overall race lead.
The 31-year-old Belgian captured his 100th career individual stage or race victory by edging Jose Joaquin Rojas of Spain and John Degenkolb of Germany in the flat ride south from the Paris area, race organizers said.
Blustery conditions helped a 20-rider lead bunch that also included Wiggins and US rider Levi Leipheimer to outpace the pack by 2-1/2 minutes over the 185.5-kilometer ride from Mantes-la-Jolie to Orleans.
"It was a hard day with the crosswind," Boonen said.
"We fought a hard battle all day because there were GC (general classification) contenders in the leading group."
Wiggins, one of the overall race favorites, took the lead from prologue winner Gustav Larsson by jumping ahead of the Swede as part of a 30-man group that broke out of the main pack shortly after the midway point.
The Sky Procycling rider leads second-place Leipheimer by six seconds, and Leipheimer's Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammate Boonen is third, seven seconds back.
The 31-year-old Belgian captured his 100th career individual stage or race victory by edging Jose Joaquin Rojas of Spain and John Degenkolb of Germany in the flat ride south from the Paris area, race organizers said.
Blustery conditions helped a 20-rider lead bunch that also included Wiggins and US rider Levi Leipheimer to outpace the pack by 2-1/2 minutes over the 185.5-kilometer ride from Mantes-la-Jolie to Orleans.
"It was a hard day with the crosswind," Boonen said.
"We fought a hard battle all day because there were GC (general classification) contenders in the leading group."
Wiggins, one of the overall race favorites, took the lead from prologue winner Gustav Larsson by jumping ahead of the Swede as part of a 30-man group that broke out of the main pack shortly after the midway point.
The Sky Procycling rider leads second-place Leipheimer by six seconds, and Leipheimer's Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammate Boonen is third, seven seconds back.
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