Critérium du Dauphiné 2014

[urbanroyal]

 

3:30 on Supersport 5

 

And following that ..the Swiss Tour ...oh and all the football as well ....

['Dale]

Intricate tactics today

 

, Richie Porte (Sky) and Lieuwe Westra (Astana) have sat up from the break on the Col des Saisies and are waiting for the Froome/Contador/Nibali group behind.

[Meezo]

interesting, not sure if this was already posted on the froome dog thread

 

http://www.supersport.com/cycling/international/news/140615/UCI_accused_of_giving_Froome_unfair_advantage

['Dale]

Chris Froome attacks from the peloton on the Col des Saisies, in the company of teammates Geraint Thomas, Danny Pate and Vasil Kiryienka. The yellow jersey Contador follows but he does not have any teammates left with him.

['Dale]

The Froome/Contador group has swollen to 17 riders, but the yellow jersey remains completely isolated in a group with three Sky riders, three Astana riders (including Vincenzo Nibali) and Wilco Kelderman (Belkin).

['Dale]

Talansky has been particularly prominent in setting the pace in the break on the Col des Saisies. It's remarkable that Contador and Froome allowed the American out of their sight in the first place.

['Dale]

 

Sky have Porte, Nieve and Lopez patrolling the move but behind, the men in black have realised the danger posed by Talansky and Van Den Broeck, and have begun to help Tinkoff-Saxo's chase effort.

['Dale]

The 23 riders in the break are: David Lopez, Mikel Nieve, Richie Porte (Sky), Tanel Kangert, Lieuwe Westra (Astana), Dani Navarro, Yoann Bagot (Cofidis), Adam Yates (Orica GreenEdge), Igor Anton, John Gadret (Movistar), Romain Bardet, Alexis Gougeard, Jean-Christoph Péraud (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Thomas Voeckler (Europcar), Jurgen Van den Broeck, Tony Gallopin, Pim Ligthart (Lotto Belisol), Kristjan Koren (Cannondale), Tejay van Garderen (BMC), Yuriy Trofimov (Katusha), Ryder Hesjedal, Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) and Bartosz Huzarski (NetApp-Endura).

['Dale]

Back out on the road, Koren has led the escapees over the top of the Col des Saisies. The Froome-Contador group reaches the summit 2:35 down, while the main peloton is 3:35 behind.

['Dale]

77 kms to go

['Dale]

Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) and Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Belisol) attack on the descent of the Saisies and briefly open a lead of 20 seconds over the rest of the breakaway group, but they are swallowed up again as the road flattens out at the base.

['Dale]

In the long valley between the Saisies and the Côte de Montagny, the gap between the leaders and the Froome-Contador group has dropped to 1:55. Belkin's Martijn Keizer is now contributing to the chase, but the Talansky group still outnumbers the Froome-Contador group and it won't be brought back easily.

['Dale]

As it stands, Talansky is in the provisional overall lead, with Jurgen Van Den Broeck in second place.

['Dale]

60 kms to go

['Dale]

GO 'BERTO

['Dale]

The Ag2r-La Mondiale trio of Romain Bardet, Alexis Gougeard and Jean-Christophe Péraud are driving the pace at the head of the breakaway, aware that as things stand, Bardet is on the provisional podium of the Dauphine.