Blog - Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré

The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2010 will be part of Amaury Sport Organisation

The Spanish newspaper El País announced it early this week already and today Le Dauphiné Libéré confirms it: A.S.O. has been asked to organise the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2010 and will most probably buy the race in June after 2010.

A.S.O. taking over the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2009: - exlusivity - the full route in Google Maps / Google Earth, selected riders and their numbers

Now the Giro d'Italia 2009 is over, all cycling fans' eyes are pointed to ... Nancy where the first stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré will take place on Sunday. The Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré is a mini Tour de France, a one week stage race which is used by some riders as their final preparation for the national championships and for the Tour de France.

In this article you'll find exclusive maps of the Dauphiné Libéré route in Google Maps and a downloadable version for Google Earth. In addition, this article contains the full list of selected riders and their numbers!

Just like last year when the Dauphiné was won by Alejandro Valverde ( ...

A miniature Tour de France: the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré 2008

On this blog I regularly talk about the Tour de France (with for example the full Tour de France 2008 track in Google Earth or the changes in official partners/sponsors of the Tour de France), but did you know that a little bit less than a month before the Grand Départ of the Tour from Brest a sort of miniature Tour de France will take place from 8 till 15 June 2008?

The experts will have understood by now that this article is about that miniature Tour which is called the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.

Miniature Tour de France you might think? Yes indeed, because with its almost 1093 kilometres the riders will do about one third of the distance of the Tour de France during this stage race and the number of stages has also been divided by three to come to 7 stages in addition to the prologue. However, in terms of difficulties this stage ra ...