Cycling: Goss rides out chaos to take lead

Wednesday 09 March 2011 01:00 GMT

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Australia's Matt Goss won the third stage of the Paris-Nice race yesterday to claim the leader's jersey after a dramatic sprint finish. The HTC-Highroad rider outmuscled Heinrich Haussler (Garmin-Cervelo) and Denis Galimzyanov (Katusha) to take the overall lead from Thomas de Gendt by two seconds.

The chaotic sprint into the finish at Nuits-Saint-Georges saw Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) crash at the final turn.

Team Sky's Geraint Thomas and Greg Henderson were fifth and sixth respectively with Henderson, who won Monday's second stage, now fourth in the overall classification, six seconds behind Goss.

Their Sky team-mate Bradley Wiggins finished safely among the peloton and is 77th overall, 16 seconds off the lead.

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