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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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[–] Deschanel2017 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stage 7

Moutain episode #2 out of 3. The big one. Starting directly with 2 very long climbs with no flat at all before or in between: Col de la Madeleine and Col de la Croix de Fer, each of them climbing for more than 20 kilometres. Then come a more relaxed part before the final climb to a ski resort above St-Michel de Maurienne, this climb embedding 75% of the Col du Télégraphe climb before diverging.

Let's see if Vingegaard can be better on this type of climbs than the shorter ones we had on Stage #6 (on the other hand, he seemed better on the shortest and steepest one of the two...).

[–] Deschanel2017 1 points 2 days ago

Let’s see if Vingegaard can be better on this type of climbs than the shorter ones we had on Stage #6 (on the other hand, he seemed better on the shortest and steepest one of the two…).

Mmwell... Pogatchar did again what he wanted to do, when he wanted to do it, and nothing could prevent it.