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Race thread: 🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 (June 8 to 15) (www.criterium-du-dauphine.fr)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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3 heavy-weight riders shall start: Pogatchar (🇸🇮 UAE), Vingegaard (🇩🇰 Visma) and Evenepoel (🇧🇪 Soudal-QS).

There will be a few outsiders as well, like Lipowitz (🇩🇪 Bora), Mas (🇪🇸 Movistar) or L. Martinez (🇫🇷 Bahrein).

This will be the last professional race of Romain Bardet (🇫🇷 Picnic). On the other side of the age spectrum, Seixas (🇫🇷 Decathlon) will start his first major race.

During the first half of the race, sprinters and punchers will battle for stages: Milan (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek), Healy (🇮🇪 EF)...

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[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Stage 3

A rather similar profile again, but with more 3^rd^ category climbs. The last one is located about 15 km from the finish line: short but rather steep, it may be enough to eliminate sprinters like Milan. That is if, unlike yesterday, a team attempts to eliminate him...

[–] Deschanel2027@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Trek didn't want to pull on the flat to give a chance to Milan, and the rest of the peloton didn't want to pull or attack, nobody wanted to use the work of the favorites' teams had done to keep the gap low. Therefore the breakaway made it, in spite of all its effort to fail at it.