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The 2014 Paris–Nice was the 72nd running of the Paris–Nice cycling stage race, often known as the Race to the Sun, and the first European World Tour event of the season. It started on 9 March in Mantes-la-Jolie and ended on 16 March in Nice and consisted of eight stages. It was the second race of the 2014 UCI World Tour season. The race took on an unusual profile in 2014 in that it did not feature a time trial of any description and did not have any stages with a summit finish. The intention was to make the race more open and encourage attacking racing rather than a defensive race ruled by time trial experts or the climbing specialists.
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2014 UCI World Tour, race 2 of 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dates | 9–16 March 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stages | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distance | 1,447 km (899.1 mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The race was won by pre-race favourite, Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen of Team Sky, who took the race leader's yellow jersey after winning stage five to Rive-de-Gier, and held the jersey until the finish in Nice, where he also won, to become the first Norwegian rider to win the race. Boasson Hagen won the general classification by 16 seconds over runner-up José Joaquin Rojas of the Movistar Team, having won stage two to Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche and holding the yellow jersey after stage four, while BMC Racing Team's Peter Velits completed the podium – 1 second behind Rojas and 17 seconds down on Boasson Hagen– after he was victorious on stage four to Belleville.
In the race's other classifications, Boasson Hagen also picked up the green jersey for the points classification, amassing the highest number of points during stages at intermediate sprints and stage finishes, and Yuri Trofimov was the winner of the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification for Team Katusha. Ag2r–La Mondiale's Carlos Betancur was the winner of the white jersey for the young rider classification, as he was the highest placed rider born in 1989 or later, after placing fifth overall and winning stage seven to Biot Sophia Antipolis, while the Movistar Team won the team classification.
The race's other remaining stages were taken by sprinters John Degenkolb of Giant–Shimano, on stage one, and Nacer Bouhanni of FDJ.fr, on stage three, and Astana's Vincenzo Nibali, on the queen stage – the sixth stage to Fayence.