Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo) wins Paris-Nice stage 2.

Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo) sprints to Paris-Nice stage 2 victory in Vierzon, France. He continued his impressive strong season in winning Paris-Nice bunch finish in Vierzon.

 The Dutchman outpowers (QuickStep-Foor's) Elia Viviani through a chaotic finale and then delivered a powerful finishing effort to claim the win also ahead of André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) who took third.

 A block headwind as the peloton rolled away from the start in Orsonville meant that there was a most sedate opening to proceedings on Monday.

 After a brace of tentative early attacks came to nothing, the bunch remained huddled in phalanx formation for the opening two hours or so, ambling along at a speed just north of 32kph.

 Top Ten General Classification

1,Arnaud Demare (France) Groupama-FDJ 7:58:57,
2, Gorka Izagirre (Spain) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:07,
3, Christophe Laporte (France) Cofidis, Solutions Credits 0:00:08,
  4, Julian Alaphilippe (France) Quick-Step Floors 0:00:10,
 5, Mike Teunissen (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:00:13,  
6, Tim Wellens (Belgium) Lotto Soudal,  
 7, Tony Gallopin (France) AG2R La Mondiale 0:00:15,
 8, Esteban Chaves (Colombia) Mitchelton-Scott,  
9, Ion Izagirre (Spain) Bahrain-Merida,
10, Heinrich Haussler (Australia) Bahrain-Merida.