Critérium du Dauphiné May 30-June 6 2021

[Escarabajo]

Thomas, Kruijswijk
López, Mas
Kelderman, Quintana, Gaudu, Kuss, Hart, Porte
Izagirre, Valverde, Froome, Barguil, G. Martin, Aru

Whatever. At least you tried.
This race is a real unknown.

 

[BlueRoads]

Since it's France, I'm going to do wine glasses. Pantani has the melon's patent.

Thomas, López
Martin, Gaudu
Porte, Mas
Quintana, Hart
Konrad, Izagirre, Valverde, Kuss, Vingegaard, O'Connor

 

[Pinot's goat]

Do people not consider Valverde a contender?

 

[limak_]

Since it's France, I'm going to do wine glasses. Pantani has the melon's patent.

Thomas, López
Martin, Gaudu
Porte, Mas
Quintana, Hart
Konrad, Izagirre, Valverde, Kuss, Vingegaard, O'Connor

I've got kind of a blackout and can't figure out which Martin is this about..

 

[Pinot's goat]

I've got kind of a blackout and can't figure out which Martin is this about..

Guillaume.

 

[Panda Claws]

I expect at least one Ineos domestique to be stronger than Thomas here.

 

[staubsauger]

Ineos might try to let Geoghegan Hart win as consolation for being a super-domestique again. Although in that case they better would've sent him to Switzerland with Adam Yates!

Carapaz isn't a domestique for me. Actually he's Ineos best option to beat the Slovenians in France with a clever long-range attack. So if he ends up being stronger than Thomas I'm not surprised.

Porte though...

Carapaz actually rides Switzerland now!

 

[RedheadDane]

Break: Gamper, Van Moer, Garrison, and Gautier. Peloton at 3:50.
Someone forgot to tell Van Moer that this is the "Ga-break"...

 

[Anderis]

Break: Gamper, Van Moer, Garrison, and Gautier. Peloton at 3:50.
Someone forgot to tell Van Moer that this is the "Ga-break"...

LOL.
I read the first line of your post and had an idea.
Then I read the 2nd line of your post and realised I was not the first one to have this idea.

 

[bob.a.feet]

"Aru for the win"

 

[perico]

Do people not consider Valverde a contender?

Depends on what the team strategy is. Valverde is a shoo in for a Top 10 if he puts his effort in. If Mas is in form and they are riding for him, then Valverde should be up there since they seem to work well for each other. I don’t know whether GC is a goal for Valverde here, though he’s never far off. He’s riding the TdF more as Olympic prep so I have no idea how his form is right now. López seems to be riding well since recovering and Mas was starting to find his form before heading to altitude camp or whatever he has been doing since his last race.

 

[jaylew]

LOL.
I read the first line of your post and had an idea.
Then I read the 2nd line of your post and realised I was not the first one to have this idea.

You know RD never misses peculiarities and mistakes when it comes to rider names.

 

[RedheadDane]

You know RD never misses peculiarities and mistakes when it comes to rider names.

Talking about mistakes:

• 1 Michael Valgren Andersen

You'd think they'd have managed to update his name by now... BTW, @BlueRoads, you better hope he wins something soon. Coz he's decided to keep his beard until then. Though, he did point out that it could be anything, including UNO.

 

[Savant12]

Froome comfortably riding at the back of the Ineos train.

 

[RedheadDane]

Van Moer leaves Gamper and Gautier behind. Garrison was dropped a while back.
Peloton at 1.30.
16ish Ks.

 

[Bonimenier]

Van Moer would deserve it after last week's tragedy, but it's going to be very hard.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, Bennett has attacked from the peloton.

 

[Bonimenier]

McNulty already dropping

 

[titan31]

Slow enough pace by Ineos here. Surprised no one else is upping it

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

What is happening here, all these guys getting distanced that you wouldn't expect...

 

[Tim Cahill]

Froome drops Gesink!

 

[Bonimenier]

Slow enough pace by Ineos here. Surprised no one else is upping it

Looking at who is getting dropped the pace doesn't seem that slow.

 

[titan31]

Looking at who is getting dropped the pace doesn't seem that slow.

I mean they've brought back like 10 seconds on Van Moer so I'd say thats slow. Peleton is still quite big too so the people dropped are clearly just not at it at all

 

[Samamba]

Van Moer is incredibly strong again, but this is gonna be really hard to pull off when Bahrain will come to the front for Colbrelli.

 

[perico]

Kristoff dropped. If Colbrelli doesn’t survive... Bala is lurking.