🇫🇷 Critérium du Dauphiné 2024 Stage 1 Race Highlights | Eurosport Cycling

Criterium du Dauphine Stage 1 Highlights.

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[Music] just ined altitude are done for now Remco And Rog are back and we’re on our way to the T FR to build up officially starts here with the beginning of the doin eight days only two on paper for the sprinters plenty of uphill finishing is in a time trial a big race in southeast France for the first time in its history it races in the Ali s s finishing in the town where it started as well a day for the sprinters but then five uphill finishes that time trial and the last 3 days in the Alps proper 212,000 M to climb over 8 days just under 12200 km to ride with some of the best riders in the world on the start l the opening stage looks like this 172.5 km long 2,000 M of climbing but most of that climbing done in the early part of the stage a real carrot for sprinters to come to this race not too many did see that carrot dangling before but a couple of notable names are here Sam Bennett and Mar fison the big stars however the weather looking more like bah than the do I can promise this race did start in June this race was meant to be raced in summer but 12° rain and Mist greeted the Riders on the opening Sunday two Riders got up the road in the Breakaway matis lber of R BM Bay and Mark Donovan of q36.5 with a a and the rest following on it was controlled after a maximum advantage of 4 and a half minutes by both diat long for Sam Bennett and leel for Mar pillis other names in the mix for the Sprint the likes of marus court but there was a problem on the way for Bennet a back wheel change with 45 km remaining Mark Donovan had already done his job in the Breakaway he would be in the polka dot Jersey King of the mountains prize for winning all three early categorized climbs one lap of the final two finishing circuits to go in a gap at 114 looking difficult for the Breakaway to hold on even more hard when with 35 seconds and 23.7 km to [Applause] go then this happened and it led to the abandonment of James Wen of q36.5 crashing with Ellison ver galito and Steven Kake wheen of q36.5 suffering and being forced to lead the race Alex Edmonson also left as well couple of other crashes during the race [Applause] too a final chat between those in the Breakaway it would not be their day but they would get prizes King of the mountains Jersey as we said for Donovan and it would be here just under 17 km to go when the Riders would be caught GC teams at the front UAE for auso inios for Rodriguez gagen Hart gou cus and jensson were all here as well wasn’t all about Remco Evol and Primo RIT Riders who’d done the work to chase the break away they were making fans days as well at the back once their job was done and there may be another job to be done could a Sprint be avoided Neil’s pollet would try Mar oall would follow him and it’ll be down to a couple of other teams to chase led by Josh tling of inos grenadiers that move would be brought back with 10.4 K to go then another one though 10 km remained when yonas Hut thrw his hat into the ring nobody following who would do the chasing the answer would be dick at not AEL led by Ed b and haen a five-time stage winner down the years at the D so would be brought back and then would begin the long straight road to the Finish GC teams desperately get their man up to the front kilom ticking by speeds at a Crazy 80 or 90 km per hour at state frightening stuff once into the safety zone of 3ks to go it was all time for the Sprint teams to set up their men K doing a great job Gibbons behind him in the lead out in the final few hundred meters Bennett was on his wheel a few others trying to mix it in who normally wouldn’t get involved in the Sprints but pson versus Bennett had been the bill at the start of the day rouso right Vini were in there too and it would be pson who would lead it out on his wheel waiting Sam pennet he came out he gave it a go but Pon hung on an eighth victory of the season for the Daye the former world champion [Music] the Tre on fire one of the top teams of the year and it will be pson ahead of Bennett a third place for Ugo of anel M both arms in the air and he soon be putting both his arms up to pull on the leaders jersey as well as pson beating Bennett P Vini and adul a very good fifth place for the Welshman from from EF education easy most so the yellow Jersey for Mar Pearson of Litt Tre Bennett’s in second and with all the bonus seconds there top six separated by different numbers everyone else is at 10 [Music] seconds and from the Sprints we go to something that is very likely not to be a Sprint a big big day uphill already the first of five uphill finishes right at the top of the C at 1200 m above sea level plenty of classified climbing lots of unclassified climbing too and a short to day 142 km for stage two of the dofini you can catch it on Eurosport and On Demand on Discovery Plus [Music]