Primoz Roglic won cycling's eight-day Paris-Nice race on Sunday crossing the finish line third on a rainy French Riviera seafront for a narrow, tense victory.

Primoz Roglic launched the final, decisive attack up the biggest climb on this year's Paris-Nice to win the seventh stage and tighten his grip on the race lead on Saturday.

Primoz Roglic and Simon Yates remain on course for a Paris-Nice showdown on Saturday's climb stage after outsider Mathieu Burgaudeau of TotalEnergies won the hilly stage six on Friday with the main contenders finishing together.

American rider Brandon McNulty won the fifth stage of the Paris-Nice race after a solo breakaway on Thursday but three-time Vuelta a Espana winner Primoz Roglic took over the leader's yellow jersey.

Wout van Aert led a Jumbo-Visma podium sweep in the Paris-Nice time trial on Wednesday.

Danish rider Mads Pedersen, the 2019 world champion, won a sprint finish to take the third stage of the Paris-Nice.

Dutch sprinter Fabio Jakobsen of the Quick-Step team won a dash to the line on stage two of Paris-Nice at Orleans on Monday, powering clear with perfect timing.

Jumbo giants Primoz Roglic and Wout van Aert stepped aside at Paris-Nice on Sunday and let new team-mate Christophe Laporte win stage 1 and the yellow jersey after dropping the peloton in a stunning attack.

Across its eight days of racing, Paris-Nice offers a little bit of everything. The roads are narrow and technical, and the weather is notoriously crummy.

Climbers will rejoice with the 2022 edition of Paris-Nice as the eight-day stage race has plenty of hilly stages and a mountain-top summit finish in Southern France’s Col du Turini. However, the route offers enough diversity for all riders with a rolling-hill time trial mid-stage race and flatter stages early in the week.