Critérium du Dauphiné 2024, June 2 - 9

[skippo12]

Landa 24th. Only lost 2:38. One of his best TTs in a while. Now I just need a bad day from Evenepoel to push the free Landa narrative.

 

[scribers]

Landa 24th. Only lost 2:38. One of his best TTs in a while. Now I just need a bad day from Evenepoel to push the free Landa narrative.

Remco is still riding in support of Landa

 

[scribers]

Froglic moves into green I believe

When he switched to bora.... amirite???

 

[saunaking]

I was told that Evenepoel never sandbags. He is always completely honest.

Literally everybody sandbags all the time.
Only Simon Yates had the cajones to say at the Giro a few years back that his competitors were 'shitting their pants'
Legend!!!

 

[SHAD0W93]

1th on the finish, not be top 20 at the second intermediate time, means a really good final for Froome, maybe the second after Tarling, and top 20 at the end of the stage. I thought at the second intermediate he would be one of the five worst of the stage...but Now top 100 is for sure and top 70 It dependa on weather conditions at the end, if are better for Riders at the end no way...but 12 of 40 Riders at the moment is ok...very bad begining, and good at the end (It is normal a progresion of him, he prefer long ITT and the last parte IS the harder, but I didnt Hope that progression

Froome did very well to only lose 6 seconds to world class hilly TT specialist Sam Bennett.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Froome did very well to only lose 6 seconds to world class hilly TT specialist Sam Bennett.

Sam Bennett has a much better bike.

 

[red_flanders]

Sam Bennett has a much better bike.

And his seat height is presumably not an inch off and negatively affecting his performance.

 

[Landeirovic]

Breakaway day tommorow!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Who the *** did his hair, Stevie Wonder?

 

[tobydawq]

Breakaway day tommorow!

No.

 

[Landeirovic]

No.

Tomorrow it will be uphill for almost a whole day. Outside of Trek and Decathlon, there are no teams with sprinters. I think tomorrow there will be a breakaway of +- 10 riders. A very difficult day to chase all day

 

[Brullnux]

Imagine how much Remco would've won by if he was in good form. He's the best TTer in the world by an enormous margin

 

[tobydawq]

Tomorrow it will be uphill for almost a whole day. Outside of Trek and Decathlon, there are no teams with sprinters. I think tomorrow there will be a breakaway of +- 10 riders. A very difficult day to chase all day

Trek and Decathlon will chase all day, difficult or not.

But okay, it's of course not a certainty that they'll succeed, so my 'no' was probably a bit too un-nuanced.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Tomorrow it will be uphill for almost a whole day. Outside of Trek and Decathlon, there are no teams with sprinters. I think tomorrow there will be a breakaway of +- 10 riders. A very difficult day to chase all day

One thing is theory, another thing is teams racing like passive cowards instead of trying to get into a break on stages like these. Seen that way too often. Teams would rather roll the dice with the 10th fastest sprinter or do nothing because you have a top-10 GC rider which I will never understand.

 

[Escarabajo]

Sosa has to be the most consistent Time Trialist in the WT.

 

[shalgo]

Froome improving: he beat EBH by almost a minute, compared to beating him by only 27 seconds in the Dauphine TT in 2013!

 

[Monte Serra]

Who the *** did his hair, Stevie Wonder?

Stevie wonder played all the instruments on some of his best songs, I'm sure he could do a better haircut than that just on vibes.

 

[search]

Imagine how much Remco would've won by if he was in good form. He's the best TTer in the world by an enormous margin

Tarling just returned from injury as well, and actually started training again later than Evenepoel.

 

[red_flanders]

Imagine how much Remco would've won by if he was in good form. He's the best TTer in the world by an enormous margin

I think the World's TT showed that when on form, between him and Ganna, it's who's on the best day. Tarling is in the mix.

Excellent win today. He's the World Champ, he should win a TT like this. Neither he or Tarling were on Worlds form, IMO.

 

[JosefK]

Even worse than Ciccone and Kuss, who were also quite bad.

After the 2023 Vuelta, I think Kuss has developed an allergic reaction to being Visma's GC guy.

 

[Salvarani]

After the 2023 Vuelta, I think Kuss has developed an allergic reaction to being Visma's GC guy.

Kuss hit the lottery, it wont happen again.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Great performance by the Bullet man, especially considering his far from optimal preparation. Congrats! Primoz also quite solid - 39 seconds gap (a bit over 1 sec per km) to such a specialist is not bad (albeit average speed suggests the TT was really fitting to him). Other GC guys with bigger gaps, Ayuso quite disappointing considering his TT abilities.

 

[jmdirt]

Does Tarling have his own thread yet? I'm sure its something like "The Queen Anointed the Next Wiggo He's Not, But He Can TT FAH".

 

[JosefK]

Kuss hit the lottery, it wont happen again.

Yes, he seems much, much happier being a mountain dom who can occasionally take a day off.

 

[Cookster15]

Congrats to Remco, he delivered. Now we see if he can hold on in the mountains. And this Dauphine has a lot of mountains!