Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

[RedheadDane]

Stewart!
Who needs Ackermann?

 

[RobertCrawley]

Remco down

Don't like the U turn

 

[red_flanders]

Who on earth is Jake Stewart?

 

[Salvarani]

Remco looks fine.

Shirt a bit dirty on the right side

 

[Tim Cahill]

Fantastic to see UNO-X nowhere because they are instilled with a sense of main character syndrome, after they chased the breakaway down and allowed Lidl-Trek to keep their entire train together.

YOU STOLE FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS, YOU LOSE, YOU GET NOTHING.

AND ITS JAKE STEWART TOO.

 

[Lequack]

Remco looks okay thanfully, and no time lost. But I don't know why these GC teams hang on so late with the sprinters, it makes no sense.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Trek/Milan failure....

 

[Red Rick]

Damnit Milan, why'd you let the cycling terrorists win.

 

[Extinction]

Remco down! What a crap finish design!

 

[Samamba]

No legs for Milan

Nothing to do with it. I mean maybe a little cause you can see he also didn't have his superspeed, but he just waits way too long. Tempo was going down, if you get jumped them you don't get up to speed in time anymore. Just dumb from Milan.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great win by Stewart

 

[Mayomaniac]

What was that gesturing by Steward during his celebration? Almost made everyone crash by [content deleted] like he got electrocuted...

 

[Boehmand]

Milan was in MUCH too small a gear for some reason

 

[proffate]

Who on earth is Jake Stewart?

[content deleted] judging by that post finish seizure

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nothing to do with it. I mean maybe a little cause you can see he also didn't have his superspeed, but he just waits way too long. Tempo was going down, if you get jumped them you don't get up to speed in time anymore. Just dumb from Milan.

Having Consonni as his leadout man (small guy who is explosive, but not doing a highspeed big watt leadout) isn't doing him any favours either.

 

[Didinho]

Remco did this so he has an excuse when he get dropped in the next days 😁. Good that it was in the slowest corner of the day, no hard crash.

 

[Mayomaniac]

[content deleted] judging by that post finish seizure

Yeah, that's how you end up with all the sprinters crashing after the finish line. I'd give him a yellow card for that.

 

[Red Rick]

Can Dauphine retain WT status for the mountain stages but be relegated to 2.3 for sprint stages?

 

[Flamin]

Nothing to do with it. I mean maybe a little cause you can see he also didn't have his superspeed, but he just waits way too long. Tempo was going down, if you get jumped them you don't get up to speed in time anymore. Just dumb from Milan.

Probably waits (too) long BECAUSE he did not have the legs.

Stewart was by far the fastest.

 

[Samamba]

Having Consonni as his leadout man (small guy who is explosive, but not doing a highspeed big watt leadout) isn't doing him any favours either.

Agreed. Previous sprint they put Consonni earlier and Theuns last.

 

[Lequack]

MVDP sprinting just so that he can be part of the blurred background image.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

This Dauphiné is the best I've seen Stewart since that wild month in early 2021 where he looked like a potential star. Thought his chance this race had come and gone when he won the sprint of the peloton on day 1 but then he goes and does it anyway here.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Milan was in MUCH too small a gear for some reason

He pretty much always seems undergeared because he likes high cadence sprinting, but between that and a really short leadout man with almost no draft (ok, I might exaggerate a bit) he isn't exactly using his full potential...

 

[red_flanders]

[content deleted] judging by that post finish seizure

Gave off some strong Kenny Powers vibes...

 

[Brullnux]

Nothing to do with it. I mean maybe a little cause you can see he also didn't have his superspeed, but he just waits way too long. Tempo was going down, if you get jumped them you don't get up to speed in time anymore. Just dumb from Milan.

Stewart didn't go particularly early. Milan has a problem of not reacting very well when things aren't perfectly to a script he understands – sort of the opposite to Kooij/Merlier, who are both instinctive sprinters. Feels like he was set on doing a specific leadout strategy, but it was a tailwind with 4 men in a single kilometre (probably too many, if anything).