Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[Tim Cahill]

Florian Talansky, come on ASO give us some proper coverage next year.

 

[moljoh]

Greedy Teddy, love it

 

[fenns]

The GC guys will want to win this stage so they go off last tomorrow.

 

[YavorD]

Pogi will have to ride the ITT in green if the break sticks.

Not necessarily.
If VDP Is gapped and doesn't finish top 3, he should be in green. No?

 

[Netserk]

Not necessarily.
If VDP Is gapped and doesn't finish top 3, he should be in green. No?

Yes, but I find that unlikely.

 

[Boehmand]

Really? On discovery+ it's like 2 hours from now that the broadcast will start.
Which would be sad for me, but also good for me, I was about to start reading a text for work lol (homeoffice is dangerous).

FML

It's yesterdays re-run now, the real broadcast starts here at 15.25

 

[Heston]

ASO aren't producing live pictures until 2 hours from now. No one has it before.

 

[Miss Violet Smith]

Pogi will have to ride the ITT in green if the break sticks.

Extremely entertained by green jersey shenanigans.

I suppose Remco will want a turn in green as well, after the others have had it.

 

[Netserk]

I thought Jorgenson's role was to be in such moves?

 

[Mayomaniac]

The Lipopotamus is on the loose!

 

[Extinction]

I think the varying perspectives on theenjoyment of stages like this is due, in part, by where we live. I’m watching from 6:00am or so till 7;30 (whenever it finished) while having my several cups of morning coffee. Lovely way to start the day. So for some of us there’s no “what a waste of time I could have been riding or fixed the gutters.” There’s nothing I miss by watching; the only thing I miss is when there isn’t cycling to watch.

Yea, I'm watching at 3-4:30 pm and, after a nice meal with some wine, it's a real snooze fest.

 

[moljoh]

Ivan Romeo in the break, just testing how inserting images works

 

[nightowl]

Soooo the peloton is just cool with this then?? Wish we had some pictures…

 

[Netserk]

No Schachmann.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1932402774915883421

View: https://x.com/dauphine/status/1932402774915883421

 

[Monsi]

Looks like the Milan group has rejoined the peloton. The sprinters’ teams might chase this down.

 

[Brullnux]

Looks like the Milan group has rejoined the peloton. The sprinters’ teams might chase this down.

I think they'll try but I just don't think Milan gets over the Cat 3 climb within 30s of the peloton. It's a genuine climb, has a kilometre at 10%.

 

[Monsi]

I think they'll try but I just don't think Milan gets over the Cat 3 climb within 30s of the peloton. It's a genuine climb, has a kilometre at 10%.

Yeah I also don’t think Milan would survive that climb if the riders are aggressive but Lidl wouldn’t chase back to the peloton for nothing. Still think they’ll try to control for a sprint. Honestly though, Bahrain should be thinking this might be the best chance for Wright to get a win.

 

[Netserk]

I think they'll try but I just don't think Milan gets over the Cat 3 climb within 30s of the peloton. It's a genuine climb, has a kilometre at 10%.

And he needs to finish in the top-3 to defend the jersey.

 

[Brullnux]

Yeah I also don’t think Milan would survive that climb if the riders are aggressive but Lidl wouldn’t chase back to the peloton for nothing. Still think they’ll try to control for a sprint. Honestly though, Bahrain should be thinking this might be the best chance for Wright to get a win.

I think for Lidl it's also good training and there's not much to lose, so it's worth a shot, but the chances are slim.

They also have the yellow jersey, so probably want to respect that. If the ITT were completely flat there would've been a (small-ish) chance Milan keeps it until Friday.

 

[titan31]

They let Lipowitz in the move?

That seems unnecessarily silly.

 

[Boehmand]

They let Lipowitz in the move?

That seems unnecessarily silly.

On the other hand they are probably fine with him burning up his legs all day - while they keep the break in range before shutting it down towards the end - so that he is less of a threat on the ITT tomorrow

 

[Berflamand]

I thought it was a great move by SQS sending Schachmann in the break with Lipowitz in order to force UAE and Visma to work while Schachmann could just tag along without working if the gap would grow too much.

Next time I look at the LiveStats, Schachmann isn't in the break anymore and SQS are working together with UAE, smh...

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Lipovitz training extra hard to usurp roglic next month.

 

[TastyGroceries]

I thought it was a great move by SQS sending Schachmann in the break with Lipowitz in order to force UAE and Visma to work while Schachmann could just tag along without working if the gap would grow too much.

Next time I look at the LiveStats, Schachmann isn't in the break anymore and SQS are working together with UAE, smh...

It was an error, Schachmann was never in the break apparently and it was Tejada instead.

 

[Red Rick]

Top guys can give Lipowitz 5 minutes easily, it's the guys that are here for 9th place that should be worried.