Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[theyoungest]

Definitely not the Pogacar performance we saw in the final stage of the 2024 TdF

Different course, different moment in the race, and his two opponents are now in better form than last year (and Pogi probably in worse form).

 

[dobrien]

MVDP! Hell of a ride from him, very impressive.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

Ah poor Lipo losing out on yellow by 2 seconds.

 

[Bolder]

Vingegaard unable to shift to the big ring in the end. Still a decent time.

Without this he probably goes 10 seconds faster. Shorter cranks maybe helping limit losses?

I really hate remote shifting. Batteries and servo motors have no place on a bicycle. But I know I'm pissing into the wind on this.

 

[Alien Performance]

Well done Eddie

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The only real information is the confirmation for why Pogacar has usually preferred to race Slovenia

Perhaps Pogačar chose scissors while Evenepoel and Vingegaard both brought rocks.

 

[Potomac]

Pog really shouldn't have skipped the Giro. He needed it as a warm up race.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Lippo losing yellow because he was dithering about yesterday throwing in 20 attacks against VDP and 80kg time triallers on the flat.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Remco takes yellow.
Very good for the race.

From Pogacar I either expect total sandbagging from now on or a shitload of attacks. Hoping for the latter.

 

[Faserr]

Lipo will be happy to be miss yellow I think. At the TDF it would be different of course.

 

[Pantani Attacks]

Vingegaard will win the tour by over 5 mins.

 

[search]

good final part by Romeo, but he already lost too much on the climb. Missed on defending yellow by 8s in the end, I think

 

[Lorzenz08]

I mean 28 secs from Vingegaard.
This is 15 secs away of being within normal range.
This is bad but not a catastrophe yet.

 

[kn0s]

Would like to see the difference if Remco didn't get all that gruppetto pace. Still winning though.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Evenepoel should give that blue t-shirt to Vingegaard. That would leave him confused for the rest of the race.

 

[Boehmand]

Remember today 10 % of the route was a climb, which should suit Pogacar - so 33K flat ITT on stage 5 of the Tour would cost him 2 minutes to Evenepoel and 1.20 minute to Vingegaard, if it was ridden today.

 

[Red Rick]

Pretty crucial difference in this ITT was that unlike many of these TTs with a hill in it, the downhill section was only a slight drag on very wide roads which is unlike usual when it's a bit of a recovery section. Obviously it favored the purest CdA merchant in the bunch.

Pogacar already looked really bad to me on the hill, I wouldn't be surprised if he started at a certain power and blew up there already.

But anyone overly eager to draw really big conclusions from this isn't serious. Pogacar is peaking for the Tour, not the Dauphine, and only certain fans would use not winning the Dauphine as evidence of not being in the best shape in the Tour.

 

[kingjr]

I have an inkling that, of the big 3, Pogačar is the furthest away from his top form at the moment. Let's see what happens.

So that seems to be true at least for the TT

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Paul Seixas in pro stage race stages, excluding stages that went to the break or ended with at least 20 riders in the same time: 31-10-3-2-6-15-2-10

 

[Boehmand]

Seixas 10th - 18 years old - against the biggest stars in the world.

 

[rghysens]

Well, I didn´t expect that.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Seixas riding with all the anger of an 18 year old who humbly gifted his first win to a winless loyal domestique only for him to dominate a Giro stage a few weeks later.

 

[RedheadDane]

How do you know it's been an important stage?
PCS is crashing.

 

[Jan the Man]

Chapeau Remco super strong.

 

[TourOfSardinia]