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Grega Bole wins the sprint for the 1st stage of the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné

After the prologue won by Alberto Contador (Astana) yesterday, today's stage from Evian-les-Bains to Saint-Laurent-du-Pont was destined for the sprinters. In the last climb before the finish, the leading group was taken back and a final attempt by Janez Brajkovic (Team Radioshack) and Eros Capecchi (Footon-Servetto) in the descent was destined to fail because the sprinters teams were preparing a bunch sprint.
The Slovenian rider Grega Bole (Lampre-Farnese Vini) wins it ahead of the Slovakian Peter Velits (HTC-Columbia) and the British Geraint Thomas (Team Sky). Alberto Contador finishes 34th in the same group and thus keeps the yellow jersey.

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Surprise or no surprise? - Alberto Contador wins the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2010

At the end of the afternoon (because of the final of Roland-Garros!), the prologue of the 62th Critérium du Dauphiné took place over 6.8 kilometers in the streets of Evian-les-Bains. Alberto Contador (Astana) is the big favourite for this stage race (even though he tries to explain that he's not the only candidate) and he showed his superiority right from the prologue. Surprise or not surprise?

The summary of the prologue of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2010

The list of participants for the Critérium du Dauphiné 2010 and their numbers

Last Thursday I presented you the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné route on Google Maps/Google Earth (since Amaury Sport Organisation organises the race this year, it's no longer called Dauphiné Libéré). A few hours before the start of this stage race with an individual time trial in the streets of Evian-les-Bains, I propose you to discover the list of participating riders in this 62nd edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné and their numbers.

The participating teams in the Critérium du Dauphiné 2010

Mid-April I already announced you the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné route (at that time I also informed you of the name change, the French race losing the word Libéré in its name, we thus no longer talk about the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré), today I'm pleased to allow you to discover - as usual now for the different cycling races - the 2010 Critérium du Dauphiné routes on Google Maps/Google Earth.

Le Dauphiné will take place from Sunday 6 until Sunday 13 June from Evian-les-Bains to Sallanches. The queen stage is the one on Saturday 12 June from Crolles to Alpe d'Huez. The famous climb with its 21 hairpins is in the center of the Dauphiné region but still, this will be the very first time this climb is part of the ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2010 stages officially announced by A.S.O.

In January, I announced the news about the organisation of the Dauphiné Libéré by Amaury Sport Organisation from 2010. At that time only the first rumours about the race's route were known and even though I didn't find the time to find further rumours many of you came to read this article.
Today, A.S.O. has officially announced the stage cities of the miniature Tour de France (as I called it in 2008) in the offices of the Conseil Régional Rhônes-Alpes in Charbonnières for the 8 stages of the 2010 edition and the sponsors of the race.

The stages of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2010

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 ...