Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[Tim Cahill]

Fighting like mad for position on innocuous roads 5k before 1.8k at 5.8% then will complain if someone crashes, just ride it in lads.

 

[Brullnux]

Gualdo Tadino in last year's TA was probably better than Napoli.
And AlUla Tour in 2023 albeit in a much weaker field.

I agree he's been climbing worse than expected in 2025.

I think they're quite similar, as the Napoli stage was raced really hard, but you're right in that Gualdo Tadino had no downhill and Philipsen was nowhere to be seen.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bardet goes!

 

[Lequack]

Why doesn't Vingegaard attack again? I though he was a different person.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It's a good attack considering Visma/UAE are blocking the narrow road and Lidl can only go as fast as a dropping Milan.

 

[noob]

To get into the stage just now and there's Bardet

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Bardet needed a partner in crime to have any sort of hope.

 

[Lequack]

Bardet needed a partner in crime to have any sort of hope.

Yeah this is really an insult to the great rider that is Bardet. Where is the attacking spirit, especially by non-sprint teams?

 

[Potomac]

We need more vineyards and orchards. Fields of grain don't do it for me. Not in a wine country anyway.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Yeah this is really an insult to the great rider that is Bardet. Where is the attacking spirit, especially by non-sprint teams?

Gap is growing though, slowly, but it is. Won't be enough so sadly.

But yes, where's the spirit of the others. It's not like the last stages look like they are not going to the big ones.

Edit: when I typed it was 16 seconds, when I looked at the screen again only 10. booooh!

 

[Potomac]

There's one final kicker to attack from

 

[noob]

 

[yaco]

Personally, on that route, I'd go with Foldager - but since they probably have in their heads to go for both GC with O'Connor and sprints with Groenewegen, there is no room for a puncheur.

For a team fighting to stay on the WT, the points for secondary places in bunch sprints are more important than the shot at a stage win.

Foldager is a smoky to gain selection for the TDF if he does a super Dauphine. Jayco will be going for GC and stages and of course if you for stages then you will gain UCI points. They will hope to get results with O'Connor, Matthews, Schmid and Groenewegen. Actually, I would have taken Foldager to the Giro instead of Da Pretto or Englehardt.

 

[dobrien]

Bardet needed a partner in crime to have any sort of hope.

I'd like to see him save his energy for the weekend, get in the break on Stage 7 for an all-or-nothing bid for summit glory; I think it's his best chance. I'd pay a bunch of money to see him get one, last, beautiful win, right here in France!

 

[Tim Cahill]

Healy did the same *** in Itzulia

 

[noob]

What is the name eqvivalent to Froglic for Jonas?

 

[yaco]

I question why sprinters need to go to altitude. I fully understand GC types going to altitude and in some cases classic riders but I wonder about sprinters.

 

[Boehmand]

I question why sprinters need to go to altitude. I fully understand GC types going to altitude and in some cases classic riders but I wonder about sprinters.

I don't think you can subscribe it to certain rider types - it has to do with how each individual athlete responds to it.

Some see little effect - others a lot - whether they are light climbers or heavy sprinters.

Generally it increases oxygen delivery and use for a period of time after coming down from altitude, which is a benefit in any endurance sport.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

What is the name eqvivalent to Froglic for Jonas?

Toadnas.

 

[noob]

Please tell me no gc stage today

 

[Tim Cahill]

UAE win it for Lidl, they did the same in the Giro, hijack the GC teams train so you still have all your guys at the finish.

 

[Sciatic]

I question why sprinters need to go to altitude. I fully understand GC types going to altitude and in some cases classic riders but I wonder about sprinters.

Need to go elsewhere to discuss

 

[Tim Cahill]

Was that Fred 2nd in a bunch sprint!!!!

 

[Brullnux]

Fairly simple in the end

 

[RedheadDane]

Guess the reports of Milan being bad were greatly exaggerated.