Critérium du Dauphiné 2017 (04/06 > 11/06/2017)

[Alexandre B.]

95km to go -> Froome attacked, followed by Porte and Valverde

 

[Pricey_sky]

Sounds like it's all kicking off. Froome attacks with kwiatkowski, Porte follows. Valverde and Chavez trying something too.

 

[Climber123]

This is fun

 

[Cookster15]

Porte to mark Froome and cruise to the Dauphine win. He will not want to go too deep here and neither will Froome, Contador or Valverde. I'm tipping Aru for the stage win. Would be nice to see Contador spin up the climbs rather than try to monster huge gears as he's been doing.

 

[Ataraxus]

Live streams yet?

 

[Pricey_sky]

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Live streams yet?

No coverage for another 2 hours

 

[Red Rick]

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Live streams yet?

Don't think so. Will take a while.

 

[Pricey_sky]

Porte now completely isolated. 30 riders in yellow group just behind the leaders.

Gutted we have no coverage of this!

 

[Laplaz]

Sprint stages in TDF from km 0 this year, but this after 2 hours, thanks.

 

[Samamba]

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Porte now completely isolated. 30 riders in yellow group just behind the leaders.

Gutted we have no coverage of this!

Every year the same story with the last stage of the Dauphine.
Total war but no live feed.

 

[infeXio]

Earliest live video is at 13:30 CET according to Steephill... alright then

 

[Andro]

Still just over an hour till the coverage starts, they might already be past Colombiere at that point. zzz.

 

[TomLPC]

This should be an early glimpse into how Richie deals under big pressure

 

[Ruby United]

Your daily trivia fact: US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg descending Col de la Colombiere on 2015. This is the side they will descend today.
BTW, a year later, he completed the ascend.

Former US Secretary of State (#trumppresidency)

 

[Ruby United]

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Still just over an hour till the coverage starts, they might already be past Colombiere at that point. zzz.

No ways they will be past Colombiere

 

[amih77]

Your daily trivia fact: US Secretary of State John Kerry broke his leg descending Col de la Colombiere on 2015. This is the side they will descend today.
BTW, a year later, he completed the ascend.

Former US Secretary of State (#trumppresidency)

Isn't it a title for life, like presidency?

 

[Poursuivant]

https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/873855287580651520

Could be a long day for Porte, it definitely looks like he is on his own in that picture.

 

[Red Rick]

Another Froome attack according to twitter

 

[deValtos]

Lopez and Kwiat are both up the road. If he can bridge ...

Edit: Ha he attacked on the flat!

 

[Red Rick]

When Sky are actually making the race.....

 

[el_angliru]

I think the Colombière descent is the side they climbed in the 2009 Tour, right? It was pretty steep, but I assume it's too short and too far from the final climb to encourage attacks among the gc contenders (assuming they're together at the top of Colombière, which hopefully will not be the case!).

 

[DNP-Old]

Aru and Bardet also attacked. God, my hatred for FranceTV couldn't be bigger.

 

[deValtos]

You know when the coverage starts all the action will probably have calmed down.

 

[roundabout]

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I think the Colombière descent is the side they climbed in the 2009 Tour, right? It was pretty steep, but I assume it's too short and too far from the final climb to encourage attacks among the gc contenders (assuming they're together at the top of Colombière, which hopefully will not be the case!).

No, it's the usual north side

http://www.cyclingcols.com/profiles/ColombiereN.gif

 

[Pricey_sky]

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When Sky are actually making the race.....

We finally get a stage where Sky aren't on the receiving end of one of these attacks and there are no pictures!! :redface: