Critérium du Dauphiné 2024 Stage 1 Highlights: Mads Pedersen Blasts Sam Bennett In Sprint

Watch Lidl-Trek lead Mads Pedersen to sprint victory over Sam Bennett in the 2024 Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 1.

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this is the story of the day we’ve had a breakaway group of two Riders it started with Mark Donovan a q36.5 rider there in the yellow and the Gray colored kit he went on the attack early on the stage immediately after the race start and eventually was joined by matis Lear of the team of ARA BNB hotels in the red the two of them have been riding together for a vast majority now of today’s stage they’ve kind of shared out the spoils between them as we take a look here at matis Le three climbs the cenat the ganat and Shen Mark Donovan took all three of those climbs so he secured Five Points in the king of the mountains that’s Roman comu oh crash at the back crash in the pelaton and a number of riders have gone down including Steven kwi kwi up and running already Touch of Wheels vilato was one of the Riders who went down as well so poit goes and with him looks like Marco Hower and a move of one of the Uno X Riders to go with it very good attack here yeah so these two Riders working well but here comes Josh Tarling as he tries to close this one down pollet wonderful spontaneous attack knowing that uh there was a chance because if the sprinters don’t chase then you can take the victory so po just trying to split this up taring is dragging a group of riders across here’s the attack poet looks around and decides right time to go spontaneous but it’s worth a go four hours of racing has gone by and now it’s about who wins the stage moving up big sprint and a little bit of a touch Blake quick is there for Jaco alula it’s slightly downhill now at 70 km an hour Ryan Gibbons left hand side Here Comes Milan Menon on the right oh and leapin pulls his foot out for DSM Ferman postnl Bennett is there he moves up he’s almost waiting on the wheel of Matt pedison so it’s pedison venini is right on the wheel of s Bennett now the Sprint starts 67 km an hour pedon on their front here comes Bennett on the other side moving up Pon takes it it was easy in the end there was never any question Pon wins stage one let’s take a look at the Sprint from the air Gibbons gave him an absolute armchair ride Fred Wright was there Bennett Waits maybe a little bit too long he waits to come off the wheel there goes pedison as he flies towards the line Bennett just didn’t have it in the legs and pedison wins by a bike length fantastic Sprint pison had so much power was pon from Bennett Yugo P was there fantastic Sprint