Team Sky win again as Greg Henderson claims stage one of Paris-Nice

By Brendan Gallagher Published: 5:49PM GMT 08 March 2010

Thumbs up: Team Sky"s Greg Henderson celebrates on the lectern in Contres Photo: REUTERS

The stormy breeze played massacre with the peloton all day as they raced from Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines to Contres and Henderson had to work really tough 20km out when the garland splintered prior to he bridged the opening to recover hit with a twenty-strong break.

"It was similar to a delayed suit scurry it was so tough in to the breeze and riders were so tired," pronounced Henderson who claimed Sky"s initial big win of the season, at their initial competition at the Tour Down Under in January.

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"It"s a credit to the government who have put the organisation together. They have comparison a organisation of good guys who don"t only wish to put on a show but to win bike race.

"It"s good to win this time after such a nerve-wracking day," he added. "We outlayed the time accelerating, braking, afterwards accelerating again. I was propitious to find myself out in front."

Lars Boom, who had won the voluntary on Sunday, did the same and was rewarded by maintaining the altogether leader"s yellow jersey, whilst Great Britain"s David Millar additionally rode strongly in the lead organisation and will begin on Tuesday in third place overall.

Alberto Contador, the two-time Tour de France winner, crashed 3 kilometres from the finish nonetheless he did not crop up to be injured.

"My be concerned is not the time lost on the initial stage, even though I would have favourite it to have incited out differently, but the pain. It is not the seventeen seconds lost that concerns me right right away but especially how I will feel tomorrow morning," the twenty-seven year-old said.

The Spaniard falls at the back of to eighth place in the altogether classification, twenty-three seconds at the back of Boom.

Paris-Nice details

Stage one, Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines-Contres, 201.5-km: 1. Greg Henderson (NZ - Team Sky) 4 hours twenty-two mins seventeen seconds, 2. Grega Bole (Slo - Lampre) at same time, 3. Jeremie Galland (Fra - Saur-Sojasun) s.t., 4. Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus - Katusha) s.t., 5. Alejandro Valverde (Spa - Caisse d"Epargne) s.t., 6. Nicolas Roche (Ire - AG2R-La Mondiale) s.t., 7. Jens Voigt (Ger - Saxo Bank) s.t., 8. Marco Marcato (Ita - Vacansoleil), 9. Tony Martin (Ger - HTC-Columbia) s.t., 10. Roman Kreuziger (Cze - Liquigas) s.t.

Selected others: 11. David Millar (GB - Garmin-Transitions) s.t., 58. Dan Lloyd (GB - Cervelo) 17secs, 75. Geraint Thomas (GB - Team Sky) s.t., 131. 131. Steve Cummings (GB - Team Sky) 7mins 12secs.

Overall lead: 1. Lars Boom (Hol - Rabobank) 4hrs 33mins 11secs, 2. Voigt 5secs, 3. Millar 13secs, 4. Luis León Sánchez (Spa - Caisse d"Epargne) 14secs, 5. Kreuziger 15secs, 6. Henderson 20secs, 7. Levi Leipheimer (US - RadioShack) 25secs, 8. Alberto Contador (Spa - Astana) s.t., 9. Peter Sagan (Slo - Liquigas-Doimo) 29secs, 10. Xavier Tondó (Spa - Cervelo) s.t.

Selected others: 19. Thomas 39secs, 82. Lloyd 1min 15secs, 138. Cummings 7mins 55secs,

Points classification: 1. Boom 36 points, 2. Voigt 36pts, 3. Henderson 25pts, 4. Millar 24pts, 5. Kreuziger 23pts.

Selected others: 25. Thomas 6pts.

Mountains classification: 1. Boom 4pts, 2. Valverde 2pts, 3. Laurent Mangel (Fra - Saur-Sojasun) 1pt.