The penultimate stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné was also the queen stage of this year’s edition. It was a short but intense day, the riders had to tackle 133,5 km but three category one climbs before heading up to the summit finish on Pipay, a Hors Categorie climb. As […]

Victorious at the end of Friday’s stage, the UCI Individual Classification leader also surged to the top of the KOM standings 14-Jun-2019: Three days after turning 27, Julian Alaphilippe made himself a beautiful and hard-worked gift – a second career stage victory at the Critérium du Dauphiné. To add to […]

On today’s longest stage of the eight-day race, Mitchelton-SCOTT worked to keep Adam Yates safe once again to maintain his overall race lead in Critérium du Dauphiné after a breakaway trio stayed away to the finish line. With his teammates surrounding him, Yates was never in trouble and made it […]

Team INEOS can confirm that Chris Froome’s surgery was a success following his crash on Wednesday afternoon. Froome suffered multiple serious injuries after crashing at 55kmph on a recon of stage four of the Criterium du Dauphine, and was taken to Roanne Hospital where he was stabilised and assessed, before […]

Mitchelton-SCOTT successfully kept 26-year-old Adam Yates out of trouble on today’s lengthy sprint stage of Critérium du Dauphiné, to retain his overall lead after five-days of racing. The Mitchelton-SCOTT rider stayed well protected and towards the front of the peloton for the majority of the race, eventually sprinting into 12th […]

Twenty-four hours after the success in the TT, the Team Jumbo-Visma Belgian outsprinted Bennett and Alaphilippe in Voiron. Wout Van Aert strikes again at Critérium du Dauphiné. Twenty-four hours after the TT win in Roanne, the Team Jumbo-Visma Belgian claimed another resounding success in stage 5, 201 km from Boën-sur-Lignon […]

Apparently he crashed when trying to blow his nose and was swept by a 54 km/hr blast of wind during a training ride.  He ran into the side of a house in Roanne. He’s already had surgery at St Etienne University Hospital. He has a broken right femur and right […]

Team Jumbo-Visma’s Wout Van Aert claimed an outstanding success in Critérium du Dauphiné stage 4, a 26,1 km with start and finish in Roanne (France) on Wednesday, June 12th. The Belgian delivered a superb performance with Aquila CV both in climbed and flat stretches, completing his race in 33’38”, with […]

Briton Adam Yates had a strong ride in today’s individual time trial to move himself into the overall race lead after four-days of racing at Critérium du Dauphiné. Yates started the stage in 10th place overall, 24seconds down on race leader Dylan Teuns (Bahrain-Merida), and after his powerful performance resulting […]

After two demanding stages, today’s stage was something for the fast wheels in the field. 177 km from Le Puy-en-Velay to Riom with only four category four climbs awaited the peloton.​​​​​​​ Right after the flag dropped, two riders launched an attack and were gone for most of the stage. The […]