Olympic champion endures a day of suffering with pain in his ribs Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) was an uncertain starter in the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, between Lamastre and Saint-Félicien, after his crash on stage one. The Olympic […]
Schleck loses more time in punchy finale Unleashing his sprint at the perfect moment, the Spaniard Dani Moreno grabbed an important career victory today on stage two of the Critérium du Dauphiné. The Katusha rider hit the line first in […]
Frenchman sparks risky breakaway that sticks, loses out in sprint to Tour champion When he attacked the peloton with four kilometers to race, Jérôme Coppel (Saur-Sojasun) brought some age and experience with him, as both Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) and […]
Belgian satisfied with prologue performance As was the case last year, Jurgen Van Den Broeck has gone into the Critérium du Dauphiné following a block of altitude training; as was also the case, he’s getting back into the racing groove, […]
Plays down overall GC while Lelangue suggests it could be an aim Defending Tour de France champion Cadel Evans had a solid showing in yesterday’s opening prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné, clocking a time of six minutes 45 seconds […]
Teams say that further examinations will determine riders’ chances Although both riders were very sore after limping into the finish of today’s first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, it has been confirmed that Dan Martin (Garmin Barracuda) and Samuel […]
RadioShack Nissan chief confirms last year’s runner-up will definitely ride Tour Reacting with greater diplomatically than he’s shown recently, Johan Bruyneel has played down the significance of Andy Schleck’s lack of pace on today’s stage one of the Critérium du […]
Defending champion a little reluctant to assume the race lead after stage one After just missing out in yesterday’s Critérium du Dauphiné prologue, defending champion Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) was slightly reluctant to take over the race lead at the […]
Tour de France champion fastest of a late three-man move; Bradley Wiggins moves into the lead Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) put the slight disappointment of the previous day’s prologue performance with victory in the first road stage of the Critérium […]
Stronger wind may have cost Briton stage victory Third in last year’s prologue, Bradley Wiggins stepped up a place today when he finished a very close second to Luke Durbridge on day one of the Critérium du Dauphiné. The defending […]
Wiggins’ title defense off to a good start with second place Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) showed off his Australian national time trial champion colors in style on Sunday afternoon in Grenoble, taking the 5.7km prologue in the Critérium du Dauphiné. Durbridge […]
‘Show me that you still exist…but little or nothing changes’ Stijn Devolder said after a frustrating Classics campaign that he wanted to show what he could do in the Tour de France but his Vacansoleil DCM team isn’t convinced by […]
Gilbert, Hincapie and Van Garderen also on BMC Racing squad Holding back on making any predictions prior to tackling a race he’s four times finished second in, Tour de France champion Cadel Evans will be backed by a very strong […]
More teams confirm line-up for big pre-Tour de France event Pushing towards what he hopes will be overall victory in the Tour de France, double Tour podium finisher Denis Menchov is one of several big guns who will line out […]
Tour contender says he’s producing his best-ever power figures Describing the Critérium du Dauphiné as both a mini-Tour de France and also an important way to measure form, Bradley Wiggins had made it clear that he wants to once again […]
Italian to ride his first race on French soil in almost three years Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) is to target overall victory in next month’s Critérium du Dauphiné, as he prepares for July’s Tour de France. The Italian has chosen the […]
Professional Continental teams with Tour de France starts also invited to week-long warm up race The organiser of the Critérium du Dauphiné, ASO, has announced the list of teams that will be invited to the mountainous stage race this coming […]
Eight-day Tour de France preparation race featuring something for all riders Race organiser ASO has released details of the route of this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné, the prestigious week-long pre-Tour de France stage race. This year’s event, the 64th edition […]
