After teammate Laurence Pithie accidentally caused his GC leader Dani Martínez to crash on the final stage of Paris-Nice, it looked like eight days of brilliant work to get the Colombian to his best overall result since coming second at the Giro in 2024 were about to come to nothing.
Martínez came down hard with just over 50km to race after touching wheels with the Kiwi, who had moved out of the line in the peloton and was looking the other way as his teammate tried to overtake him, leaving the GC hopeful lying in pain on the side of the road and clutching at his midsection.
