Still no dedicated thread for the Dauphine, if I am not mistaken, and the race begins tomorrow.
So I take the liberty to start discussion.
Route:
Pretty much the same race design as over some previous years, following the well-known sequence: short ITT => two hilly stages => a mid-race time trial (TTT this time) => four MTF stages (most of them short ones) loaded with mountains.
Stage profiles:
P: Valence => Valence (flat ITT 6,6 km)
1: Valence => Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (hilly, 179 km)
2: Montbrison => Belleville (hilly, 181 km)
3: Pont-de-Vaux => Louhans-Chateaurenard (flat TTT, 35 km)
4: Chazey-sur-Ain => Lans-en-Vercors (mountain, MTF, 181 km)
5: Grenoble => Valmorel (single mountain, MTF, 130 km)
6: Frontenex => La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo (mountain, MTF 110 km)
7: Moutiers -> Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Le Bettex – Mont Blanc) (mountain, MTF, 136 km)
Full startlist:
https://www.criterium-du-dauphine.fr/en/riders
Teams and key riders:
Ag2R (Bardet, Gallopin, Latour, Vuillermoz)
Astana (Bilbao)
Bahrain (Nibali)
BMC (Caruso, Teuns)
Bora (Buchmann, McCarthy)
Cofidis (Herrada x2)
Dimension Data (Boasson Hagen, Cummings)
EF (Rolland)
Fortuneo (Barguil)
Groupama-FdJ
Katusha (Zakarin)
Lotto-Jumbo
Lotto-Soudal (Benoot, de Gendt)
Mitchelton (A. Yates)
Movistar (Soler)
Quickstep (Jungels, Alaphilippe)
Sky (Thomas, Kwiatkowski, Moscon)
Sunweb
Trek (Brambilla)
UAE (D. Martin)
Vital Concept
Wanty (G. Martin)
Overall impression is that this years TdS takes a deserved revenge on CdD in terms of startlist quality, but even if it is true - you can’t really complain.
So I take the liberty to start discussion.
Route:
Pretty much the same race design as over some previous years, following the well-known sequence: short ITT => two hilly stages => a mid-race time trial (TTT this time) => four MTF stages (most of them short ones) loaded with mountains.
Stage profiles:
P: Valence => Valence (flat ITT 6,6 km)
1: Valence => Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (hilly, 179 km)
2: Montbrison => Belleville (hilly, 181 km)
3: Pont-de-Vaux => Louhans-Chateaurenard (flat TTT, 35 km)
4: Chazey-sur-Ain => Lans-en-Vercors (mountain, MTF, 181 km)
5: Grenoble => Valmorel (single mountain, MTF, 130 km)
6: Frontenex => La Rosiere Espace San Bernardo (mountain, MTF 110 km)
7: Moutiers -> Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (Le Bettex – Mont Blanc) (mountain, MTF, 136 km)
Full startlist:
https://www.criterium-du-dauphine.fr/en/riders
Teams and key riders:
Ag2R (Bardet, Gallopin, Latour, Vuillermoz)
Astana (Bilbao)
Bahrain (Nibali)
BMC (Caruso, Teuns)
Bora (Buchmann, McCarthy)
Cofidis (Herrada x2)
Dimension Data (Boasson Hagen, Cummings)
EF (Rolland)
Fortuneo (Barguil)
Groupama-FdJ
Katusha (Zakarin)
Lotto-Jumbo
Lotto-Soudal (Benoot, de Gendt)
Mitchelton (A. Yates)
Movistar (Soler)
Quickstep (Jungels, Alaphilippe)
Sky (Thomas, Kwiatkowski, Moscon)
Sunweb
Trek (Brambilla)
UAE (D. Martin)
Vital Concept
Wanty (G. Martin)
Overall impression is that this years TdS takes a deserved revenge on CdD in terms of startlist quality, but even if it is true - you can’t really complain.