Critérium du Dauphiné stage 7 Dwell – Summit end GC battle

There won’t have been any fallers on the descent, however there’s some drama as Aleksandr Vlasov, at present positioned fifth on GC, is dropped.

110KM TO GO

Fortunately the riders have completed the primary a part of the descent with out incident. They’ll now journey a plateau for a number of kilometres earlier than persevering with the remainder of the best way down.

The climate’s not good on the market, and the moist roads may make this descent harmful. No one desires a repeat of the crash from two days in the past. 

It is really 10 leaders somewhat than 9 – Godon additionally succeeded in making his means into the group.

120KM TO GO

These 9 leaders have now crested the Col des Saisies, with Fortunato taking most KOM factors adopted by Barguil, Soler, Formolo, Geniets and Rafferty. Now comes an extended descent, and a substantial means till the following climb. 

Now Guillaume Martin joins the leaders too, together with Koen Bouwman, who should have joined him someplace additional down the mountain. 

That is it, Barguil and Geniets have made the junction. They be a part of Soler, Fortunato, Rafferty, Formolo and Prodhomme on the entrance of the race.

One other attacker from the peloton, as Mathijs Paasschens tries his luck. He actually does have quite a lot of floor to make up, because the peloton is now over two minutes behind the leaders.

Geniets and Barguil are making first rate headway, and have come inside 30 seconds of the leaders, however they’ve dropped Le Berre, who’s now again with Martin and Godon behind.

Now Guillaume Martin and Dorion Godon additionally assault from the peloton to attempt to make their means as much as the leaders. The race nonetheless hasn’t settled down for now. 

Warren Barguil, Kevin Geniets and Mathias Le Berre have set off in pursuit of the main quintet, however nonetheless have nearly a minute to make up on them. This climb could be the correct king of territory to assist them bridge throughout, although.

130KM TO GO

And as they’re about to begin climbing the primary check of the day, Col des Saisies, that lead group has a useful lead of over a minute. The peloton lastly appear blissful to let a gaggle go. 

That trio have been joined by two extra riders, Darren Rafferty and Nicolas Prodhomme.

All change on the entrance once more. Tim Wellens attacked from the earlier group as they caught by the peloton, earlier than he himself was introduced again. Now three new riders are within the lead: Marc Soler, Lorenzo Fortunato and Davide Formolo.

The main quartet have been joined by Quentin Pacher and the irrepressible Mads Pedersen. Right this moment might be solely about survival for Pedersen, what with all of the mountains, however he’s out attacking anyway.

The riders in the beginning in the present day.

140KM TO GO

The aforementioned group weren’t given a lot leeway and have been introduced again, changed by a brand new group of 4 leaders: Tim Wellens, Sean Quinn, Mathis Le Berre and Enzo Leijnse.

One other abandonment to report sadly: Emīls Liepiņš of Workforce dsm-firmenich PostNL.

In the meantime, out the again of the peloton, Ilan Van Wilder was dropped already, and has now deserted the race. That’s a blow for Soudal-QuickStep chief Remco Evenepoel, although he wasn’t capable of be a lot use to him defending the yellow jersey yesterday. 

There’s a giant group off the entrance of the peloton, and it’s obtained loads of acquainted names in it, together with Magnus Cort, Mads Pedersen, Marc Soler and Valentin Madouas.

In addition to Hart, there are three different non-starters to report: Hugo Toumire, Logan Currie and Clément Russo. 

155KM TO GO

They’re off!

One rider not current within the peloton is Tao Geoghegan Hart. It was clear that one thing was up with the Brit yesterday, presumably a consequence of the day gone by’s mass crash, and he sat up early on the ultimate climb and got here in over 20 minutes down; and in the present day he has left the race for good.

The riders have simply set off from the unofficial begin, and might be racing correctly quickly. 

Whereas Roglič gained the stage yesterday, arguably probably the most eye-catching performer was Derek Gee. Regardless of not being famous for his climbing, the Canadian shocked the sphere to combine it up with the GC contenders and place fourth on the stage, and keep his fourth place on GC. It was a efficiency that stunned even himself.

Following yesterday’s motion, now we have a brand new chief of the race, and it’s a well-known face: Primož Roglič.The Slovenian was the 2022 version and had a spell as total chief in 2020, and seemed in each bit pretty much as good a form as he stormed to victory atop Le Collet d’Allevard yesterday.

You be a part of us in the present day for the penultimate stage of the 2024 Critérium du Dauphiné, and it’s one other massive one within the mountains. There might be 4 mountains in whole, three of them ranked class one, earlier than a summit end on the hardest of all of them: Samoëns 1600.

Hi there and welcome to our stay protection of stage 7 of the 2024 Critérium du Dauphiné!