Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[Didinho]

Expecting Romeo to hold his jersey after the TT. Although that climb is pretty tough. Pogi a minute behind. Could be close.

 

[RedheadDane]

Surely Romo could win the whole dapughine from here??

That'll be a bit hard, considering he's not in the race.

Ivan Romeo, the guy who just won the stage:

Javier Romo, stage winner in TDU earlier this year:

So, sometimes when you miss-spell a rider's name... you turn him into a completely different rider.

 

[perico]

It doesn't help when your team leader's version of trying to notch a WT win is begging Almeida to let him win.

To be fair, have you ever seen Enric try to win a sprint finish? It’s not exactly his forte.

 

[yaco]

Perhaps, though he doesn't look like he has his form here. Unless saving it all for one designated stage.

He sat up in the first two stages to lose time. Time will tell.

 

[nightowl]

Lipowitz gained about 55 seconds today. The big three have just lost this race by underestimating him.

There’s 0 chance Lipowitz keeps that lead

 

[wirral]

Jeanniere's sprint looked dangerous. Perhaps it was just the camera angle.

 

[search]

Perhaps, though he doesn't look like he has his form here. Unless saving it all for one designated stage.

He sat up in the first two stages to lose time. Time will tell.

it's not unusual for Healy to just need a couple of days to get into a race. In Itzulia he looked pretty bad the first stages as well

 

[Boehmand]

Romeo is a stud. He has a Juliet in each town the race finishes.

Or a Romeo in each town, let's not discriminate

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Well that was fun. I like Romeo a lot. Some talent.

He's definitely personable and was just talking about Alcaraz being way ahead of him in wins in interview, so he has some catching up to do.

 

[Tim Cahill]

On the topic of race broadcasts, does anyone know if there is footage available of the famous Dauphine TT in 2004 (stage 4). I have a vague recollection at the time of someone on an old angelfire board raging that it wasn't televised but don't know if I've just imagined the entire thing and it's out there somewhere.

 

[scribers]

Vingo out of position on that climb was a vLab trap. Only reason it didn’t work is aliphilippe wasnt there to antagonize.

 

[Mayomaniac]

On the topic of race broadcasts, does anyone know if there is footage available of the famous Dauphine TT in 2004 (stage 4). I have a vague recollection at the time of someone on an old angelfire board raging that it wasn't televised but don't know if I've just imagined the entire thing and it's out there somewhere.

I think one can only find short highlights.

 

[Red Rick]

Romeo only lost 40s to Evenepoel in the Romandie ITT which was also 17km. Should be able to hold on to the yellow jersey after the ITT at least.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

On the topic of race broadcasts, does anyone know if there is footage available of the famous Dauphine TT in 2004 (stage 4). I have a vague recollection at the time of someone on an old angelfire board raging that it wasn't televised but don't know if I've just imagined the entire thing and it's out there somewhere.

Carols might know, she's been taping races going back decades back when we still had VHS tapes.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Romeo only lost 40s to Evenepoel in the Romandie ITT which was also 17km. Should be able to hold on to the yellow jersey after the ITT at least.

The bump in the middle was a lot less steep, he did not go in the break the day before iirc and Evenepoel was not peaking towards TDF yet. Those are 3 reasons why i would not automatically assume the gap to be similar. I'm not saying it can't be (maybe the jersey will give him wings) but the situation now is clearly different. Evenepoel isn't even the only one on this TT that could potentially bump him down.

 

[gunara]

Romeo is a stud. He has a Juliet in each town the race finishes.

Romeo would fit the image of a teenaged heartthrob in the late 80s/early 90s, he's pretty like that (I don't know male beauty standard of today despite having a 20-year old daughter, looking at what she brings home she has no clue either).

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Or a Romeo in each town, let's not discriminate

I've been led to believe that he, unlike Tiberi, is more into Cats at the moment, but perhaps he has one of those in each town as well.

 

[Unchained]

EF Easy Post, No Education got race plan from Del Toro! 3 down 5to go! 3 days of clown car. Maybe they are saving their strength to win TT..
Don't understand why they went all hands to the front and gave up chase when gap was at a minute or less.
Great move for Romeo and better still to time his counter and jump in between riders attacking MVP..Lipowitz also excellent timing to get the feel for when to roll away from MVP. Good to see Movistar ..Romeo looks super happy in yellow. Breakaway did everything right, multiple beat downs on Mathieu was only logical thing to do, he would have likely beat all in a sprint from the small group.
Pogacar on TT bike doing warm down, looks like he might use it for the entire race instead of switching for small climb, will be curious to see what Remco does ..

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

So, sometimes when you miss-spell a rider's name... you turn him into a completely different rider.

Wow, we have that power? I'm gonna try and miss spell Pogacar's name in the following sentence and we can put this theory to the test tomorrow: I hope John Candy will not reach the same level as he did in last year's TDF.

Now all we can do is wait and see what happens. Fingers crossed.

 

[Unchained]

Romeo is a stud. He has a Juliet in each town the race finishes.

I saw him race a few times when he was riding with Hagens Berman, it was a development team nobody was over 19, or 20!! He still looks like a teenager!!

 

[red_flanders]

... it has to be acknowledged that the UCI points and relegation system leads to a lot of cycling terrorism.

Underrated comment.

 

[Oldman]

There’s 0 chance Lipowitz keeps that lead

It'll be down to 20 seconds tomorrow. RB will be in the hot seat to defend it, too.

 

[Gratemans]

Wow, we have that power? I'm gonna try and miss spell Pogacar's name in the following sentence and we can put this theory to the test tomorrow: I hope John Candy will not reach the same level as he did in last year's TDF.

Now all we can do is wait and see what happens. Fingers crossed.

So now we even have the power of resurrection?

 

[Oldman]

EF Easy Post, No Education got race plan from Del Toro! 3 down 5to go! 3 days of clown car. Maybe they are saving their strength to win TT..
Don't understand why they went all hands to the front and gave up chase when gap was at a minute or less.
Great move for Romeo and better still to time his counter and jump in between riders attacking MVP..Lipowitz also excellent timing to get the feel for when to roll away from MVP. Good to see Movistar ..Romeo looks super happy in yellow. Breakaway did everything right, multiple beat downs on Mathieu was only logical thing to do, he would have likely beat all in a sprint from the small group.
Pogacar on TT bike doing warm down, looks like he might use it for the entire race instead of switching for small climb, will be curious to see what Remco does .

Mathieu's last chance to wear the Yellow came and went. He looked a little disappointed donning the Sprinter's jersey.

 

[Unchained]

it's not unusual for Healy to just need a couple of days to get into a race. In Itzulia he looked pretty bad the first stages as well

Healy has positioned himself perfectly for days of dramatic improvements!!
Guy is the ultimate in sandbaggers!!!
Team with lots of big talk, cycling websites selling the idea that Healy was a real possibility. He fell another 5 positions from 129th yesterday after riding like a child in the park chasing his mother, not chasing Pogacar. Healy now is 134th out of 151 remaining riders at 16 minutes and 44 seconds back, rather than Healy warming up he needs to start on fire. And not enough bad things can be said about EF not being represented in the break!! First 70 riders are within 2 minutes or less. Ben Healy is ten minutes behind such renowned climbing great like Nils Politt!!
EF should ask promoter to use podium, PA system and microphone, call EF team director up on stage and fire him!! That would be the best TDF preparation!!