criterium de dauphine

spoke2cun

This is being shown on itv4. Highlights on Sunday evening. Live from Monday. Hope it's Phil ligget and Paul Sherwin commentating. But good news anyway.

dastardly00

Eurosport have highlights on Sunday afternoon and live coverage from Monday onwards also.

spoke2cun

Yes that's correct but itv4 is free!

Eamonnator

As always, The Inner Ring has some interesting stuff.
Froome is his favourite.

http://inrng.com/2015/06/criterium-dauphine-2015-preview/#more-25155

VR46

Looking forward to the monstrous mountain stage.



And stage 5 is identical to a Tour stage this year.

MPFG

Great ride by Kennaugh...one strong liitle guy

buffalo

As always, Nico's diary is available in the Indo: http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/they-dangled-like-a-carrot-ahead-of-us-31284749.html

godtabh

Day 2 from Nico

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cycling/nicolas-roche-well-have-unexpected-advantage-in-time-trial-31287634.html

MPFG

Very surprisingly poor TTT from SKy but Deignan rode so well.......made a very good application for a Tour place

godtabh

MPFG wrote: »

Very surprisingly poor TTT from SKy but Deignan rode so well.......made a very good application for a Tour place

Roche got it wrong so (see above article!)

MPFG

Carlton Kirby is so insane

Today he said Cadel Evans was guiding BMC and how great it was from the riders to have his influence ...he isn't at the race or working for BMC as a DS....Kirby is obsessed with Cadel

Also Bardet .....just because he backed him in last year's tour

And how Dan Martin is going for GC win here .....all because he got a good price for Dan

The stuff he makes up !!!

godtabh

From Twitter you'd hardly think that Evans has retired. I assume he still has massive influence on BMC

godtabh

Roche on yesterdays stage

Sounds like Sky made a balls of it

bazermc

Is today the big mountain stage?

MPFG

bazermc wrote: »

Is today the big mountain stage?

No...starts tomorrow

godtabh

228km today

neris

anyone else having trouble with eurosport on chrome? logged in but just keep getting little circles bouncing up n down

godtabh

I'm watching it on ITV4. The adds are slightly better

ITV's stream only started at around 3

neris

godtabh wrote: »

I'm watching it on ITV4. The adds are slightly better

ITV's stream only started at around 3

didnt realise it was on itv. will give it a try tomorrow when im near a tv. any caffine shampoo ads on there?

godtabh

the lads on itv are getting very confused!

No coffee breaks on ITV

godtabh

That was shaping up to be a good finish but kind of died out

dastardly00

Anyone know why Sam Bennett wasn't riding in this? Seems like it would be great training for the TdF, and he could've had a chance to win a stage or two as well.

Esroh

dastardly00 wrote: »

Anyone know why Sam Bennett wasn't riding in this? Seems like it would be great training for the TdF, and he could've had a chance to win a stage or two as well.

Racing in Koln on Sunday. The big German 1 days seem to be the plan as he was 2nd in Berlin last week. German Team /Sponsors

dastardly00

Esroh wrote: »

Racing in Koln on Sunday. The big German 1 days seem to be the plan as he was 2nd in Berlin last week. German Team /Sponsors

That's a shame. Given the results of the Dauphine so far, Sam would probably have got a podium finish by now, if not a win.

godtabh

Roche's words for today.

Looking forward to the mountains today

MPFG

Tricky stage today with a long winding descent before the final climb

Lots of candidates ....esp Valverde , J-Rod. Allaphillipe, D Marin, Nibali , Kelderman
Kennaugh , R Dennis, TJVG, Talansky, Bardet

dastardly00

Less than 50km to go, with the Cat. 1 climb of Col d'Alloss and the Cat. 2 climb to Pra Loup to come. There is a 7 rider breakaway with a 3'20" lead over the bunch (Christophe Riblon (AG2R-La Mondiale), Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Pieter Serry (Etixx-QuickStep), Romain Sicard (Europcar), Arnaud Courteille (FDJ), Albert Timmer (Giant-Alpecin), Daniel Teklehaimanot (MTN-Qhubeka)).

neris

theyve changed the europsort player and its bleedin poxy.

Dan in a nice position

Darkglasses

Finally watching a stage of this. Oh Carlton, I have missed him

Pudsy33

Mollema has blown already

neris

is tomas vockler the most overrated underperformer?

Pudsy33

Is Talansky still there?

Edit. Yep I see him, only two Garmindales left.

mhiggy09

Bardet attacks on the crest and is ahead on the descent

neris

mhiggy09 wrote: »

Bardet attacks on the crest and is ahead on the descent

hes fairly pushing it

mhiggy09

neris wrote: »

hes fairly pushing it

Ye he surly is. 44secs and gaining. Who was the trek rider getting back on?

Trojan

Awesome descending!

retalivity

Where's deignan? I assumed he would have stayed up with roche and froome

mhiggy09

retalivity wrote: »

Where's deignan? I assumed he would have stayed up with roche and froome

He was dropped when boswel went to the front

mhiggy09

Roche on the front

Well was

godtabh

Sky get the tactics wrong?

neris

mhiggy09 wrote: »

Roche on the front

Well was

2nd sky wheel b4 froome

mhiggy09

Valverdae dropped . Sky can't seem to pull Bardet back

Pudsy33

godtabh wrote: »

Sky get the tactics wrong?

What's new eh

neris

nibbles out the back door

letape

Nibali and Valverde gone...

godtabh

Niabli cracked

letape

Froome attacks

neris

froome attacking

godtabh

this is getting good. Froome off

mhiggy09

The gap is coming down fast! Also does anyone know what the thing is sticking out the back of some of the saddles?

Pudsy33

Dan in 11th or so on the day, that's a fantastic result considering his lack of racing. Louis Meijnties in 6th for MTN is great too.