Alexander Kristoff sprints to win the first stage of Paris-Nice.
Kwiatkowski on yellow at the start.
Kwiatkowski on yellow at the start.
Michal Kwiatkowski on the podium.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Phillipe Gilbert at the team car.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Etixx and Lotto lead the bunch.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Etixx on the move.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Wiggins and Phillipe Gilbert.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Europcar lined up in the bunch.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Boonent before his crash.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Jonathan Hivert in the mountains jersey.
Jonathan Hivert in the mountains jersey.
Kwiatkowski in the white jersey of best young rider.
Silvan Dillier at the BMC team car,
Thomas Voeckler.
Alexander Kristoff after the win.
Alexander Kristoff leads the bunch sprint.
Alexander Kristoff takes the win.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alexander Kristoff celebrates his win.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates his win.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
World champion Michal Kwiatkowski gets another jersey.
Kwiatkowski in the white jersey of best young rider.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lotto's Thomas de Gendt and Lars Ytting Bak.
A mechanic works on the go.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Voeckler visits the team car.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Action at the Katusha team car.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The two breakaway riders.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Etixx-QuickStep on the front.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Etixx-QuickStep's Stijn Vandenbergh.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Johan Van Summeren(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky).(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Classic architecture in the background during stage 1.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
team Sky lead the peloton(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Ben Hermans (BMC Racing)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tiago Machado (Team Katusha)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Richie Porte (team Sky)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Australian champion Heinrich Haussler (IAM Cycling)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton took it easy today.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bradley Wiggins and Rohan Dennis chat in the bunch(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Thomas Voeckler on the attack.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton rolls through the countryside.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Riders at the start.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Wilco Kelderman (LottoNL-Jumbo)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A Team Sky Dogma.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Sylvain Chavanel (IAM Cycling)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bradley Wiggins leads Team Sky at Paris-Nice.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton rolls along.
Yuri Trofimov (Team Katusha)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michal Kwiatkowski celebrates his best sprinter's green jersey.
Alexander Kristoff crosses the line to win stage 1.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates his win.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alexander Kristoff celebrates his win.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Alexander Kristoff crosses the line to win stage 1.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Thomas Voeckler and Anthony Delaplace in the break.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Kristoff on the podium.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Kristoff on the podium.
Kwiatkowski in yellow again.
Kwiatkowski in yellow talks with countryman and teammate Michal Golas.
Kwiatkowski in yellow talks with countryman and teammate Michal Golas.
Rohan Dennis in the green points jersey.
Thomas Voeckler and Anthony Delaplace in the break.
Tom Boonen before his crash.
Michal Kwiatkowski held onto yellow for another day.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates on the podium after winning the first stage of Paris-Nice.
Team Katusha's Alexander Kristoff on the podium.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates on the podium.
Jonathan Hivert puts his best climber's polka dot jersey on the podium at the end of the first stage.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates as he crosses the finish line.
Michal Kwiatkowski is also the race's best young rider.
Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins and Richie Porte.
Michal Kwiatkowski in yellow during stage 1.
Movistar's Dayer Quintana and Izaguirre Insausti during stage 1.
Tejay van Garderen cruises in the bunch during stage 1.
Cannondale-Garmin riders during stage 1 of Paris-Nice.
Michal Kwiatkowski wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, Michael Matthews wearing the best young's white jersey and Rohan Dennis wearing the best sprinter's green jersey wait before the start.
Feeding-bottles of The Netherlands' Lotto NL - Jumbo cycling team are pictured on bikes before the start of the first stage of the 73rd edition of the Paris-Nice.
France's Romain Bardet (C) rides in the pack past wind turbines during the first stage of the 73rd edition of the Paris-Nice.
Alexander Kristoff sprints to win the first stage of Paris-Nice.
Alexander Kristoff celebrates as he crosses the finish line at the end of the first stage of Paris-Nice.
France's Arnaud Demare rides in the pack during the first stage of the 73rd
