<figure ><img title="2015 Paris-Nice, stage 7: Porte" src="http://cdn.velonews.competitor.com/files/2015/03/3-15-Porte-ITT-AFP-320x213.jpg"/><p>Richie Porte en route to winning the final stage and the overall at Paris-Nice. Photo: AFP</p></figure><p>Richie Porte (Sky) bounced back from a crash on Saturday to win Paris-Nice on Sunday.</p>
<p>A day after taking a digger in the penultimate stage, the Australian time trial champion bounced back to win the final stage of the “Race to the Sun,” a 9.3km time trial up the Col d’Èze.</p>
<p>The stage was run in wind and rain, and world time trial champ Bradley Wiggins (Sky) decided to give it a miss.</p>
<p>German ITT champ Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick-Step) turned up to race, and held the hot seat with a time of 20 minutes and 52 seconds until Simon Spilak (Katusha) booted him out of it with a 20:36.</p>
<p>Then Porte did the same to Spilak, surfing briskly up the road to the winning time of 20:23.</p>
<p>Spilak hung onto second, while Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) rode to third on the day at 24 seconds.</p>
<p>Yellow jersey Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal) was not going nearly as well — he was down on the top marks at the time check and finished 29th at 1:39 down, sliding right off the podium.</p>
<p>He was predictably crestfallen.</p>
<p>“Yeah, of course I’m really disappointed. One day we can be brilliant and the next it’s all bad,” Gallopin said. “It was an absolutely terrible day, really hard. I felt it from the beginniing‚ I had no legs at all. I wasn’t good today. It was a bad day for me and I’m afraid that’s the way sport works.”</p>
<p>In the end, Porte had his second Paris-Nice title, with Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx) second at 30 seconds and Spilak third in the same time.</p>
<p>“For me now to win this it’s just a fantastic feeling,” said Porte. “It’s one of the iconic races. I think this one feels a little bit sweeter than the last one (in 2013).”</p>
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<p>A day after taking a digger in the penultimate stage, the Australian time trial champion bounced back to win the final stage of the “Race to the Sun,” a 9.3km time trial up the Col d’Èze.</p>
<p>The stage was run in wind and rain, and world time trial champ Bradley Wiggins (Sky) decided to give it a miss.</p>
<p>German ITT champ Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick-Step) turned up to race, and held the hot seat with a time of 20 minutes and 52 seconds until Simon Spilak (Katusha) booted him out of it with a 20:36.</p>
<p>Then Porte did the same to Spilak, surfing briskly up the road to the winning time of 20:23.</p>
<p>Spilak hung onto second, while Rui Costa (Lampre-Merida) rode to third on the day at 24 seconds.</p>
<p>Yellow jersey Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal) was not going nearly as well — he was down on the top marks at the time check and finished 29th at 1:39 down, sliding right off the podium.</p>
<p>He was predictably crestfallen.</p>
<p>“Yeah, of course I’m really disappointed. One day we can be brilliant and the next it’s all bad,” Gallopin said. “It was an absolutely terrible day, really hard. I felt it from the beginniing‚ I had no legs at all. I wasn’t good today. It was a bad day for me and I’m afraid that’s the way sport works.”</p>
<p>In the end, Porte had his second Paris-Nice title, with Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx) second at 30 seconds and Spilak third in the same time.</p>
<p>“For me now to win this it’s just a fantastic feeling,” said Porte. “It’s one of the iconic races. I think this one feels a little bit sweeter than the last one (in 2013).”</p>
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