Criterium du Dauphine (2.UWT), 3-10 June

[Robert5091]

Chapeau Dan Martin! Good to read too -
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/dan-martin-in-my-lowest-moment-i-asked-myself-why-do-i-race-my-bike/

'OK, I'm going to race with a smile, I'm going to hold my head high, I'm going to have a laugh with my teammates, and if I win, I win, and if not, it's just a cycling race'"

Bora pushed for Buchmann so he must feel good, A.Yates up there too. G looked very good and 1 more km and it looked like he'd catch Martin. Have Sky peaked too early though?

Saturday's stage - Frontenex – La Rosière 110 km starts early 11.20 CET TV starts early from 13.25 CET
The penultimate stage on the Critérium du Dauphiné is the same as stage 11 in the upcoming Tour de France. The route of the Tour de France stage is 1.5 kilometre shorter, that’s the only difference. The Dauphiné begins in Frontenex and the Tour in Albertville.

Weather forecast - 28C tops, cloudy, 40% chance of rain

 

[Robert5091]

Climbs -

 

[Poursuivant]

Nibali ftw

 

[Robert5091]

I can see the Sky train with Bardet, Buchmann, Yates & Martin all together until the last climb. Nibali? He's here doing his own thing

 

[Escarabajo]

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Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.

I don't think it has nothing to do with the route but the participants. It just too far away from the Tour.

 

[wirral]

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Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.

Nibali casually strolling in amidst rider at the end of their ropes looks pretty funny. You could just see he couldn't care less.

To be fair, he dropped some pretty heavy hints prior to the Dauphine that he was not interested in going for the GC.

 

[classicomano]

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Nibali ninjaing his way through Dauphine. Finished 16 today, 59 secs behind Martin. I didn't even notice him at any point.

You think thats bad? Buchmann manages to finish fourth without being noticed.

 

[Flamin]

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Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.

I don't think it has nothing to do with the route but the participants. It just too far away from the Tour.

You don't think that the past 2 stages had "2km uphill sprints" written all over it?

 

[Red Rick]

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Serves them right for having such a boring race when you create such a turd of a route.

I don't think it has nothing to do with the route but the participants. It just too far away from the Tour.

You don't think that the past 2 stages had "2km uphill sprints" written all over it?

Exactly. Especially in the order that they're doing the stages.

 

[jfazendeiro]

Anyone knows if Eurosport and RTF have the same time of transmission?

 

[Robert5091]

Now this is the sort of stage profile we want! Love the 2 St Bernard dogs at the finish

https://twitter.com/dauphine/status/1005343515180707840

 

[Robert5091]

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Anyone knows if Eurosport and RTF have the same time of transmission?

Eurosport 2 UK/English has 13.45 https://www.eurosport.com/tvschedule.shtml

France 3 has 13.35 https://www.francetelevisions.fr/le-criterium-du-dauphine

same for RAI http://www.raisport.rai.it/dl/raiSport/dirette/ContentItem-49340f1d-5246-4cf7-931f-75d65af039e7.html

 

[Red Rick]

I like that they start early today and tomorrow cause of RG finals.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

The climb categorizations in this race are some of the worst I've encountered
Valmorel (12.7km 7%) is a HC climb, yet Cormet de Roselend from Bourg St. Maurice (19km 6%) is a cat 1. Not to mention that Le Bettex (7km 7.7%) and the small bump before it (2.7km 11%) are also both cat 1, when they should be 2nd categories.

So, we won't be getting any pictures from Col du Pré today, will we?

 

[Robert5091]

Lets see what Barguil can do ...

 

[staubsauger]

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I like that they start early today and tomorrow cause of RG finals.

I liked it when they'd start this early each day, so Eurosport would show both live.

 

[DNP-Old]

Bilbao, Cataldo, Kozhatayev, Houle, Gougeard, De Gendt, Herrada, Domont, Carretero, Serry, Molard, Power, Verona, Barguil, Hardy, Moinard, Pauwels, Courteille, Pöstlberger, Conti, Boswell, Craddock et Degand

 

[The Barb]

De Gendt is a really terrific, and smart, rider.

I wish more second tier climbers / allrounders tried to be more like him, smartly targeting stages rather than trying to finish top 20 in GC.

 

[Netserk]

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Bilbao, Cataldo, Kozhatayev, Houle, Gougeard, De Gendt, Herrada, Domont, Carretero, Serry, Molard, Power, Verona, Barguil, Hardy, Moinard, Pauwels, Courteille, Pöstlberger, Conti, Boswell, Craddock et Degand

If only we could watch it, eh?

 

[Robert5091]

Astana with 4 men in the break ...

 

[Netserk]

Pello Bilbao, Dario Cataldo, Bakthyar Kozhatayev and Hugo Houle (Astana), Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates), Axel Domont and Alexis Gougeard (AG2R-La Mondiale), Brent Bookwalter (BMC), Lukas Pöstleberger (Bora-Hansgrohe),Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal), Jesus Herrada (Cofidis), Hector Carretero (Movistar), Pieter Serry (Quick Step), Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ), Ian Boswell and Pavel Kotchekov (Katusha-Alpecin), Robert Power and Carlos Verona (Mitchelton-Scott), Warren Barguil, Romain Hardy and Amaël Moinard (Fortuneo-Samsic), Lawson Craddock (EF), Thomas Degand (Wanty-Groupe Gobert), Serge Pauwels (Dimension Data), Neilson Powless (LottoNL-Jumbo), Tsgabu Grmay (Trek-Segafredo) and Arnaud Courteille (Vital Concept) are in the lead.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

what's the gap?

 

[Pricey_sky]

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what's the gap?

2”50 with 78km to go according to Flamme Rouge on twitter.

 

[SlickMongoose]

What's the point of a short stage like this if they're not actually going to broadcast most of it?

 

[DNP-Old]

AG2R leading the peloton. Bardet ready to go all out?