2017 Critérium du Dauphiné 4 - 11 June

[Vetplant]

Just under 90 kms

About 5 mins for the break

 

Pursuit time

 

Don't think the sprinter trains will wanna lose out again

Chase might be over eager to bring them back and they might catch them too soon... perfect situation for a Stevo Cummings attack from 3 km out... except there is no Stevo so who else can pull off a long ranger?

[J Wakefield]

John thank you for your input! 

As mentioned above, you work daily with cyclist and are a competitive cyclist yourself.

 

Can Louise improve to be podium contender in 2 years?

Or is hope winning like Oscar Pereira.

I would really like to believe he can, winning the alone requires luck, Pereira was in a position where luck worked for him. 

 

Personally Louis would need to work on a few aspects of his racing to be able to win, however his progression has been positive over the years, you don't finish top 10 in a Tour by just following wheels. 

 

If you look at Bardet's progression which I believe has been so impressive since 2014, I believe it is possible for Louis. He is still young and has years on his side to progress. 2 years I think is short, 3-5 is more realistic. However, it will depend on variables like his overall drive and motivation, training, team and so forth. Is UAE or DD a team who he can stay with to win a Tour? I don't believe so, but I also may be very wrong but I don't think so, he would need to move to a Movistar, Astana type Super team to get the overall support. 

 

My 2c.

['Dale]

Race snake 

 

Pace is on 

 

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he would need to move to a Movistar, Astana type Super team to get the overall support. 

 

 

If he moves to Astana, I'll **** a brick.

 

Movistar far prefer Spanish/Colombian riders than boertjies.

[mon-goose]

Race snake 

 

Pace is on 

 

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I would not want to be at the back of this line

 

or the guy that opens up the gap half way up

[J Wakefield]

If he moves to Astana, I'll **** a brick.

 

Movistar far prefer Spanish/Colombian riders than boertjies.

 

Hahaha, at that level they all the same essentially. 

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[GrumpyOldGuy]

Sunweb must be chuffed, a win at the Giro and now a stage at the Dauphine, actually I thought Bauhaus made it look too easy.

['Dale]

Sunweb must be chuffed, a win at the Giro and now a stage at the Dauphine, actually I thought Bauhaus made it look too easy.

 

His first win

What a surprize

Sunweb really very happy hey

 

And glory at women Ronde' too 

[SwissVan]

 

Three-time Tour de France champion said to be unhappy with way team's image has been tarnished by Jiffy Bag affair...

 

 

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Chris Froome on Alpe d'Huez (picture copyright Anne Martin)

 

 

 

Three-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome wants to leave Team Sky despite having a year of his contract to run and has approached BMC Racing with a view to moving to the US team for a salary of €5 million a year, reports French sports daily l’Equipe(link is external).

BMC Racing general manager Jim Ochowicz is said to have rebuffed the approach for now, with his priority being to secure existing backer TAG Heuer as replacement sponsor for Swiss bike brand BMC

The 32-year-old, a founder member of Team Sky when it began racing in 2010, has reportedly unhappy with the team’s involvement in the ‘Jiffy Bag’ affair over a medicine delivered for Sir Bradley Wiggins at the 2011 Criterium du Dauphiné that is the subject of a UK Anti-Doping investigation.

He has said that the controversy over that and Therapeutic Use Exemptions issued to Wiggins ahead of races including the 2012 Tour de France, which he won with Froome second, threatened to tarnish Team Sky’s clean image as well as casting a cloud over his own performances.

 

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> Froome: I want answers about Wiggins' injections

Froome has been reported as being disappointed with Sir Dave Brailsford’s handling of the issue, with rumours intensifying of a rift between the pair earlier this year when the team had to pull a letter expressing support for Brailsford after it turned out its star rider hadn’t signed it.

Subsequently, Froome issued a statement in which he gave Brailsford his support, but also made clear he was not happy with how the team had dealt with the negative publicity that had engulfed it in the preceding months.

> “Without Dave B, there is no Team Sky” – Chris Froome finally comes out in support of Sir Dave Brailsford

He said: “I completely understand why people feel let down by the way in which the situation has been handled, and going forward we need to do better.”

Froome added: “I would like to apologise for this on behalf of myself and the other riders of Team Sky who feel passionately about our sport and winning clean. I believe in the people around me, and what we are doing.”

 

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L’Equipe’s report comes the day after BMC Racing’s hope for this year’s Tour de France, Froome’s close friend and former lieutenant at Team Sky, Richie Porte, put in a towering performance to win the Stage 4 time trial at the Criterium du Dauphiné.

Froome – who is looking to win the week-long race for a record fourth time – finished eighth, 37 seconds down on the Australian, while Lotto Soudal’s Thomas De Gendt retains the overall lead, with Porte moving into second place, 27 seconds behind him.

Clsssic L'Equipe tactic to try cause discontent amongst the non French GC teams

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Stage 5 Pics:

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