Critérium du Dauphiné isn't a crit

lotus49
lotus49 Posts: 763
edited June 2013 in Pro race
Why is the Critérium du Dauphiné called a criterium when that usually (according to my possibly misguided understanding) means a short circuit race not a stage race?

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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Similar question applies to the Tour Series.
  • emadden
    emadden Posts: 2,431
    Critérium doesnt necessarily always translate into "circuit race"... originally, in French, I think it comes from a type of "competition". The common usage in cycling circles (pardon the pun) is of course the well-known "round-the-houses" format of a race. ...
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  • ozzzyosborn206
    ozzzyosborn206 Posts: 1,340
    random guess with probably zero truth......its a short version of the TDF? as for the Tour Series...because Tour means lap in French ie.Tour de France=Lap of France. and the Tour series has rounds all over the UK...just my take on them
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    It's just a name. The same company runs the Dakar Rally - a race which doesn't go within 4000 miles of Dakar.
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  • DHTT
    DHTT Posts: 345
    Used to be called Dauphine Libere after the newspaper which originally founded the race, ASO bought it a couple of years ago and obviously as Dauphine Libere were no longer involved changed the name slightly. The Dauphine remains so its obvious its still the same race, but just renamed race to remove the newspaper's exposure I guess.
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  • lotus49
    lotus49 Posts: 763
    RichN95 wrote:
    It's just a name. The same company runs the Dakar Rally - a race which doesn't go within 4000 miles of Dakar.
    Not any more but originally it was Paris-Dakar.
  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    The race is a circuit of the Dauphine region, broadly.

    Seems fairly apt.

    You get Criterium International too, plus various others.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Babylon translates criterium as Rally...

    Etymologically speaking it's got nothing to do with a particular type of bike race, just as a tour can mean a trip round an old chateau
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    lotus49 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    It's just a name. The same company runs the Dakar Rally - a race which doesn't go within 4000 miles of Dakar.
    Not any more but originally it was Paris-Dakar.
    I am aware of that.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    And to be fair it used to go between the two.

    Pushed over 40 for the first time today, Have to say I can see why it so so dangerous and I'm in an all inclusive work camp...
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  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Now someone explain why the 4 Jours de Dunkerque lasts 5 jours.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,695
    Well it's not incorrect to say it lasts for 4 days, just incomplete...
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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    Where exactly does Paris-Roubaix start?

    And enough of this Critical Dauphine stuff, how on earth did the Free the Dolphin race get it's name?
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  • wombly_knees
    wombly_knees Posts: 657
    afx237vi wrote:
    Now someone explain why the 4 Jours de Dunkerque lasts 5 jours.
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  • RoadPainter
    RoadPainter Posts: 375
    Why do the French think a 2 week holiday (14 days) is the same length as a 15 day holiday?
  • oneof1982
    oneof1982 Posts: 703
    Criterium du Dauphine isn't a crit.....

    well it is now......
  • deejay
    deejay Posts: 3,138
    oneof1982 wrote:
    Criterium du Dauphine isn't a crit.....
    well it is now......
    Since 2010 it is.
    Le Dauphiné Libéré is a famous regional French newspaper, and organized the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (now known as the Critérium du Dauphiné) cycle stage race after the ASO took contol in 2010.

    The historical capital is Grenoble and the other main towns are Vienne, Valence, Montélimar, Gap and Romans-sur-Isère.
    Its inhabitants are called Dauphinois.

    afx237vi wrote:
    » 04 Jun 2013 20:40
    Now someone explain why the 4 Jours de Dunkerque lasts 5 jours.
    This race was always a 6 day race and 7 stages (until the UCI interfered) and it got confused with people turning up to watch an indoor track race so they changed it to the 4 Jours de Dunkerque. Q E D.
    I've been with it into Picadie and a wet afternoon TT stage in St Quentin and also to Amiens.
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