Criterium du Dauphine stage 6 **Spoiler*

kleinstroker

La Rochette – Meribel 141km


The queen stage of this years Dauphine..




The Finish



Froome looking particularly dangerous

yourpaceormine

At the risk of becoming UK Cycling Expert... queen stage, HM Queen 90th, surely it is the patriotic duty of Sir Froome or Sir Porte to win today?

blazing_saddles

ITV 4 should just about squeeze the penultimate climb into their coverage, where things might start (or have started) to kick off. Can't be helped. French tv doesn't kick off until 10 past the hour.
Very unlikely that Eurosport, arriving 20 minutes later, will catch anything other than the final climb.

Vino'sGhost

Blazing Saddles wrote:

ITV 4 should just about squeeze the penultimate climb into their coverage, where things might start (or have started) to kick off. Can't be helped. French tv doesn't kick off until 10 past the hour.
Very unlikely that Eurosport, arriving 20 minutes later, will catch anything other than the final climb.

I think Eurosport has more coverage via the website it will prob be the raw feed from aso so minus commentary . Some may say that's an improvement

specialgueststar

yourpaceormine wrote:

At the risk of becoming UK Cycling Expert... queen stage, HM Queen 90th, surely it is the patriotic duty of Sir Froome or Sir Porte to win today?

Chris and Richie - beautiful names form the Commonwealth

mechanism

Live video starts at 4:10pm CET according to cyclingfans.com, same as all week, which is a late for a relatively high profile race. That doesn't explain why Eurosport are starting 1/2 an hour later than previous stages.

yourpaceormine

Dominik Nerz (Bora-Argon 18) is a non-starter

yourpaceormine

And they're off. Five have attacked from the gun.

What's the betting Daniel T goes for some early points today? Sky's tactics today, set the pace to neutralise attacks, then Froome to attack 3/4 of the way up the final climb?

mechanism

yourpaceormine wrote:

Sky's tactics today, set the pace to neutralise attacks, then Froome to attack 3/4 of the way up the final climb?

It might be more complicated than that with attacks for the stage win and attacks from Porte/Contador.

It'll be a test of the new and improved 2016 SkyBot Artificial Intelligence Module.

blazing_saddles

25 riders in the lead at km 12

Ben Hermans (BMC), Robert Kiserlovski and Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff), Thibaut Pinot and Jérémy Roy (FDJ), Laurens De Plus and Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step), Mikaël Chérel and Ben Gastauer (AG2R-La Mondiale), Daryl Impey (Orica), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Katusha), Tony Gallopin and Louis Vervaecke (Lotto-Soudal), Serge Pauwels and Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data), Marc Soler (Movistar), Thomas Voeckler, Bryan Nauleau, Perrig Quémeneur and Romain Sicard (Direct Energie), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo), Marco Minnaard (Wanty-Groupe Gobert), Cesare Benedetti and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Argon 18), Tsgabu Grmay (Lampre-Merida).

Andriy Grivko (Astana) is chasing by himself. Peloton at 2.25.

yourpaceormine

25 out in front, 2:20 to the peloton
Ben Hermans (BMC), Robert Kiserlovski and Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff), Thibaut Pinot and Jérémy Roy (FDJ), Laurens De Plus and Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step), Mikaël Chérel and Ben Gastauer (AG2R-La Mondiale), Daryl Impey (Orica), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Katusha), Tony Gallopin and Louis Vervaecke (Lotto-Soudal), Serge Pauwels and Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data), Marc Soler (Movistar), Thomas Voeckler, Bryan Nauleau, Perrig Quémeneur and Romain Sicard (Direct Energie), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo), Marco Minnaard (Wanty-Groupe Gobert), Cesare Benedetti and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Argon 18), Tsgabu Grmay (Lampre-Merida).


Edit: and Grivko. Gap now 2:30

kleinstroker

Bertie had better get motoring on the Col du Madeleine if he wants to make up for yesterday, or else Froomey will just rinse and repeat yesterday's action

yourpaceormine

Two Tinkoff in the break. They'll soon stop working with the break, in anticipation of Bertie's attack.

Any Direct Energie riders left in the peloton, or are they all in the break?

yourpaceormine

Igor Anton abandons

yourpaceormine

Daniel T takes full points for the first climb.
Time gap now 3:15

Any live streams up yet?

yourpaceormine

LL Sanchez and Bakelants have bridged the gap. Daniel T takes the 5points on the 2nd cat. Gap now 2:50

blazing_saddles

At the bottom of La Madeleine, Alberto Contador and Fabio Aru have attacked. Six riders on the offensive at km 52: Contador and Jesper Hansen (Tinkoff), Aru (Astana), Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), Dayer Quintana (Movistar) and Bjorn Thurau (Wanty)

blazing_saddles

Six riders from Team Sky lead the peloton 30 seconds behind Contador and Aru.

Kamikaze attack or a Landis-like special?

topper_harley

Brave attack from Contador

mechanism

True champion etc.

edit: sounds like they've been caught.

blazing_saddles

Didn't last long. Back on the Sky short leash.

yourpaceormine

ARu and Contador caught by the Sky led peloton. Still up the road is a group of 15 who have 1:45 on peloton. In between is a group of 8, incl Daniel T.

topper_harley

No coverage is hard to take...

mechanism

No idea if this really was taken on the Madeleine, but pretend it was and that Contador was brought back by Stannard.

yourpaceormine

17 in front
Ben Hermans (BMC), Robert Kiserlovski and Roman Kreuziger (Tinkoff), Thibaut Pinot and Jérémy Roy (FDJ), Laurens De Plus and Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step), Jan Bakelants, Mikaël Chérel and Ben Gastauer (AG2R-La Mondiale), Daryl Impey (Orica-GreenEdge), Jurgen Van den Broeck (Katusha), Tony Gallopin and Louis Vervaecke (Lotto-Soudal), Serge Pauwels (Dimension Data), George Bennett (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Tsgabu Grmay (Lampre-Merida) are together in the lead with 3km to go to the summit of La Madeleine.

Aru has attacked again and is closing in on lead group

yourpaceormine

Bertie goes again. Bardet too

yourpaceormine

Itv coverage starting in about 15 mins. Hopefully not too much guff before coverage airs

above_the_cows

yourpaceormine wrote:

Igor Anton abandons

Is he still riding? He seems to have been around for ever.


And my telly says the wielrennen starts at 15h UK time.

yourpaceormine

Froome with Bertie over Madeleine. Bardet 7s in front of the pair.

Edit 1:22 behind leaders


Why is this not on the telly box? You'd think there was a major European sporting competition on.

RichN95.

yourpaceormine wrote:

Itv coverage starting in about 15 mins. Hopefully not too much guff before coverage airs

I fear there may be. Mot broadcasters aren't live until 3.30 which suggests ASO aren't supplying pictures until then. Let's hope I'm wrong.

yourpaceormine

ASO ticker can't keep up. There appears to be the lead group of 17 then a group of 9, then 2 Astana (Aru), then peloton