A miniature version of the Tour de France: organised by the Dauphiné Libéré newspaper, takes place in June and is often being used as a preparation on the Tour de France
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
Amaury Sport Organisation, mostly known as the organisor of the Tour de France, has been asked by the current owner of the critérium, the Dauphiné Libéré, to organise the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 2010.
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 ( ...
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 ...