Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[Peyroteo94]

Marvelous. The Pinnacle of this sport in front of our eyes!

 

[moljoh]

Hi, I'm Vingoman, pleased to meet you. This is as close as you're going get to me during this race. By the way, who's this dude to my right?

Remco explaining to Jonas which one the green jersey is

 

[YavorD]

Hi, I'm Vingoman, pleased to meet you. This is as close as you're going get to me during this race. By the way, who's this dude to my right?

I think Vingegaard is asking Evenepoel why is he (Vingegaard) wearing some-sort-of-a green jersey and what it means.

 

[Cycling111]

Yesterday's stage had nothing to do with a classic. The Monuments are races of 250 km or more, and they're races where the action lasts throughout the entire race.

Things are being greatly exaggerated due to something that happened 8km to the fin his after a quiet stage, but extrapolating it to De Ronde it's nosense. LOL

Buitrago for De Ronde and Roubaix podium.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Dauphiné has very short stages. What is the purpose of this?

 

[YavorD]

Dauphiné has very short stages. What is the purpose of this?

Hoping for good stages so that they can push the narrative that "short stages are more explosive and generally better"?

 

[Poursuivant]

I would be for a short 100km stage in the TDF if the following stage was 260km.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Dauphiné has very short stages. What is the purpose of this?

To be fair, only the mountain stages are short, but it‘s just lazy stage designing and not taking too many detours I think.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Abandoned by his mates.

 

[Berniece]

Dauphiné has very short stages. What is the purpose of this?

ASO has been doing this a lot lately, also in the TDF. Shorter mountain stages, for more explosiveness and interesting racing. Look at Stage 4, 14, 19 and 20 of the TDF last year.

 

[Netserk]

To be fair, only the mountain stages are short, but it‘s just lazy stage designing and not taking too many detours I think.

Can't have two good stages in a row though.

Dauphine 2025 stage 8, alternative

180.0 km, +5176 m. Bike ride in Aiton, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

ridewithgps.com

 

[YavorD]

ASO has been doing this a lot lately, also in the TDF. Shorter mountain stages, for more explosiveness and interesting racing. Look at Stage 4, 14, 19 and 20 of the TDF last year.

Yeah, as if the stage length is what makes the race exciting and not the profile..

They've made Hautacam and Ventoux the longest mountain stages and the arguement would probably be "see the long stages are not explosive enough and not exciting", when in fact even if those stages were 90 kilometres, we'd see the same amount of action.

The 2 shortest mountain stages in the Giro - 17th and 19th were the least memorable, but you know "explosive".

 

[proffate]

Guess I've been living under a rock but why is ving wearing that helmet that clashes terribly with his jersey? Actually looks slightly better with the green than yellow

 

[scribers]

Extra safety

 

[topcat]

3.7 km timetrial on the Poggio. Who wins?
Screw this, I have to go to work.

 

[RedheadDane]

Guess I've been living under a rock but why is ving wearing that helmet that clashes terribly with his jersey? Actually looks slightly better with the green than yellow

Basically a personal sponsor-deal with Bygma, a Danish hardware store.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Did you have bonus seconds in the intermediate sprint?

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Basically a personal sponsor-deal with Bygma, a Danish hardware store.

So does the helmet count as mechanical assistance?

 

[Berniece]

Did you have bonus seconds in the intermediate sprint?

I don’t think so, and no one important went for it.

 

[Gigs_98]

Guess I've been living under a rock but why is ving wearing that helmet that clashes terribly with his jersey? Actually looks slightly better with the green than yellow

Tbh I'm not unhappy about the helmet. Makes him much easier to spot.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nobody wanna play with Ourselin today?

Someone decided to play with him!

(But they're gonna get caught anyway.)

 

[Heston]

Looks like Alpecin wants to test the sprinters on the cat 2

 

[scribers]

They’ve included friendly program package with this version of Vingo

 

[Sciatic]

Yes I am, it's what we do in here, debate what we have seen and extrapolate what that may mean for the future.

I do not have a time machine

 

[Sciatic]

of course, well said