The team time trial has become something of a dying art in professional cycling over recent years. This afternoon at
Paris-Nice though, the peloton does battle in a TTT and for Team Visma | Lease a Bike's
Victor Campenaerts, there is a real opportunity to prove himself as a key domestique in his new team.
With
Jonas Vingegaard,
Edoardo Affini,
Matteo Jorgenson,
Per Strand Hagenes,
Bart Lemmen and
Axel Zingle in the team in addition to Campenaerts, Team Visma | Lease start the day as one of the favourites to take the win. Campenaerts in particular has an important role, looking after team leader Vingegaard. "I get the most blessed place. Or rather the most feared..., haha. I am small and aerodynamic on the bike myself, but nobody is as aerodynamic as Jonas," the Belgian explains to Het Nieuwsblad. "So behind him you do catch some wind. But someone has to do it, of course, and for me the disadvantage seems to be limited after all."