{"id":44641,"date":"2024-03-06T17:55:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=44641"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T19:38:16","slug":"plapp-swaps-green-and-gold-for-yellow-at-paris-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/plapp-swaps-green-and-gold-for-yellow-at-paris-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Plapp swaps green and gold for yellow at Paris-Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian champion<strong> Luke Plapp<\/strong> swapped the green and gold of his national champion&#8217;s jersey\u00a0for yellow after moving into the race lead of <strong>Paris-Nice<\/strong> on stage four.<br>\u00a0<br>Plapp rode away from the group of favourites on the penultimate climb of the day, initially going solo. The <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> rider gained around 15 seconds on the chasers before he was joined by Santiago Buitrago.<br>\u00a0<br>The pair worked well together and the elastic finally snapped going into the last climb, allowing the gap to grow out to an unbeatable size. While Buitrago had the legs on the toughest section of the final climb,\u00a0Plapp didn\u2019t panic.<br>\u00a0<br>The Australian paced his way up the climb of Mont Brouilly with a big prize in his sights. With the chasers still almost 40 seconds behind, Plapp had plenty of space to breathe as the line loomed into sight and he rode himself into the overall lead in his debut appearance at Paris-Nice.\u00a0He now holds a 13-second lead over Buitrago into the\u00a0overall classification.<br><br><strong>Chris Harper<\/strong> makes it two Team Jayco AlUla riders in the top 10 in the GC. Harper finished within the group of favourites and is seventh overall at 46 seconds behind his teammate.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><u>Luke Plapp (Yellow jersey)<\/u><\/strong><br><em>\u00a0\u201cI really tried to race that last climb like a time trial and race it to the line and I think that gave me the best time possible rather than if I raced it and then blew up. It was awesome having Hayman in the back and the team were awesome today. I was at the back a bit today, but the boys got me up there when it mattered. I\u2019m blown away by how it unfolded to be honest. It was quite a weird way that it all played out, but I am really happy.<br>\u00a0<br>It\u2019s been a nice start and hopefully we will have a sprint stage for Dylan as well. It\u2019s really exciting. We have such a diverse team here that every day we\u2019re here to win, whether it is a\u00a0sprint stage, the TTT yesterday or today. It\u2019s really good fun racing with the team.<br>\u00a0<br>I think this is the first bit of rain I\u2019ve had in about four months since I left Europe, let\u2019s see what the weather is on Saturday. Hopefully it is sunny, but we\u2019ll look towards the sprint tomorrow and then we\u2019ll think about the weekend. This is more than I ever could have imagined and anything else now is a bonus. We\u2019ll just take it day by day.\u201d<\/em><br>\u00a0<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2024 Paris-Nice stage four results<\/span><br>1 Santiago Buitrago 04:25:52<br><strong>2 Luke Plapp (Team Jayco AlUla) +00:10<\/strong><br>3 Mattias Skjelmose +00:37<br>\u00a0<br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">General classification after stage 4<\/span><br><strong>1 Luke Plapp (Team Jayco AlUla) 13:15:04<\/strong><br>2 Santiago Buitrago +00:13<br>3 Brandon McNulty +00:27<br><br>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian champion Luke Plapp swapped the green and gold of his national champion&#8217;s jersey\u00a0for yellow after moving into the race lead of Paris-Nice on stage four.\u00a0Plapp rode away from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44647,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44641\/revisions\/44647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}