Critérium du Dauphiné 2022, June 5 - 12

[Potomac]

I missed the punching incident

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Good to see a youngster get his first world tour win.

Especially when it is done with a great race winning attack and a little bit of courage. Well played Ferron

 

[Samu Cuenca]

You know it's a lame Dauphiné when Total win two stages...

But they would still have won even if they had caught the break

 

[DaLong]

Bagioli was working more than most and then when Ferron attacked inside the final km the rest of them left it to Bagioli to close to the gap but he decided not to.

Thanks for the recap. Not surprised he didn't want to close the gap either but eh that's bike racing I guess.

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

Thanks for the recap. Not surprised he didn't want to close the gap either but eh that's bike racing I guess.

Well, he initially tried to close it but couldn't do it on his own and no one was prepared to help/risk.

 

[bob.a.feet]

Great win for Ferron, not so great from his breakaway companions. To be fair, I can understand initially bluffing to make Bagioli chase, but once it was clear that he wasn't going to catch him they really should have woken up. Watching them look at each other with 300m to go was comical.

 

[movingtarget]

Nicely taken win by Ferron. The scenery was more dramatic than the stage............

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

First time Pierre Roland has ever won a sprint?

(Edit @Ilmaestro99 re your shocked face response: I am wondering rather than asserting it, but PR certainly not known for his turn of pace)

 

[Rackham]

Great win for Ferron, not so great from his breakaway companions. To be fair, I can understand initially bluffing to make Bagioli chase, but once it was clear that he wasn't going to catch him they really should have woken up. Watching them look at each other with 300m to go was comical.

I hope people who support the breakaway versus the peloton in such stages remember this.

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

I prefer a bunch sprint.

 

[StryderHells]

I hope people who support the breakaway versus the peloton in such stages remember this.

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

I prefer a bunch sprint.

It’s great entertainment!

 

[RedheadDane]

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

Or is it good entertainment when one guy - or lady - is able to spot that his/her breakaway companions are playing silly games?

 

[ice&fire]

I hope people who support the breakaway versus the peloton in such stages remember this.

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

I prefer a bunch sprint.

If it makes me laugh it's good entertainment

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I hope people who support the breakaway versus the peloton in such stages remember this.

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

I prefer a bunch sprint.

Disagree: it is the game of bluff, and gambling on who will make an effort, that makes cycling so different from any other endurance racing event.

 

[Lequack]

Peloton chasing the break is entertaining. Peloton giving up and coming in 15 minutes behind holding hands is not entertaining, or even racing.

 

[Rackham]

Disagree: it is the game of bluff, and gambling on who will make an effort, that makes cycling so different from any other endurance racing event.

I've been watching this stuff since the mid 1990's & no, I don't enjoy cosy breakaway wins. Never did.

Give me the heart stopping drama of a bunch sprint going into the final few km's (preferably with some hapless breakaway guys caught almost on the line) any day over the stage we just witnessed.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Sure, there is excitement in a bunch sprint, but I also enjoy game theory on two wheels. Each guy tries to win the way that he can, and the way that he could today is one of the things that makes the sport less formulaic.

 

[RedheadDane]

I've been watching this stuff since the mid 1990's & no, I don't enjoy cosy breakaway wins. Never did.

Breakaway wins aren't always cozy, though. I mean, Keisse in Turkey was hardly "cozy".

 

[Carrick-On-Seine]

I hope people who support the breakaway versus the peloton in such stages remember this.

It happens way too often, i.e. the breakaway gets mugged by one guy who times the attack right whilst the others play silly games. It's not good entertainment.

I prefer a bunch sprint.

I prefer a one day race.

 

[kingjr]

I've been watching this stuff since the mid 1990's & no, I don't enjoy cosy breakaway wins. Never did.

Give me the heart stopping drama of a bunch sprint going into the final few km's (preferably with some hapless breakaway guys caught almost on the line) any day over the stage we just witnessed.

Yesss, this so much.

 

[Lequack]

I missed the punching incident

It happened at ~10km to go first

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535261430848671745

View: https://twitter.com/RenaudB31/status/1535261430848671745?s=20&t=NIOnAteBcCknWe6V_JVPow


and then after the finish as well

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535281865724239872

View: https://twitter.com/OliverKristens4/status/1535281865724239872?s=20&t=NIOnAteBcCknWe6V_JVPow

 

[Skijumper Roglic fan]

Average speed was 44.9 kms/hr… Extremely high, for this profile, 3000 vertical meters, 197 kms…!

Second pro win for Ferron - and second time he wins in front of 2nd placed Rolland…

Molano vs Page: don‘t know why Molano punched him (several times). Page did a great race so far - I hope he‘s not intimidated now. I don‘t know what happened, and why there were beatings with the fist by Molano.

 

[Escarabajo]

So Molano disqualified for punching Page. Apologized after.
Who was the UAE rider that went to calm him down?

 

[Rackham]

It happened at ~10km to go first

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535261430848671745

View: https://twitter.com/RenaudB31/status/1535261430848671745?s=20&t=NIOnAteBcCknWe6V_JVPow


and then after the finish as well

https://twitter.com/x/status/1535281865724239872

View: https://twitter.com/OliverKristens4/status/1535281865724239872?s=20&t=NIOnAteBcCknWe6V_JVPow

So is he a Sprinter? Or a Puncheur?

So Molano disqualified for punching Page. Apologized after.
Who was the UAE rider that went to calm him down?

Don't know, it could have been George Bennett, i.e. a man who this evening is probably thinking "what the hell?!" since he's so used to Zen Master Roglic at TJV.

 

[spalco]

So Molano disqualified for punching Page. Apologized after.
Who was the UAE rider that went to calm him down?

Was that second video LeQuack posted the apology? Disgusting behaviour, what a bully. I don't believe a word he says about "regret" while still blaming Page.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It seems like that press officer, who was breathing down the neck of Almeida in the Giro, should be sitting on Molano's shoulder during races instead.