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Cycling fans looking to this year\u2019s Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\u00a0for surprises or clues to the outcome of the upcoming Tour de France were left famished at the end. There was good racing and a few embarrassing mistakes but, as in a mediocre movie, you could see the end coming halfway through the film.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cycling fans looking to this year\u2019s Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\u00a0for surprises or clues to the outcome of the upcoming Tour de France were left famished at the end. There was good racing and a few embarrassing mistakes but, as in a mediocre movie, you could see the end coming halfway through the film.<\/p>\n

First the obvious: Jumbo-Visma are very strong again. Team leader Primo\u017e Rogli\u010d is very strong again. And with 25-year-old Dane Jonas Vingegaard, the team has two strong candidates for the Tour de France yellow jersey and the mountain polka-dot jersey. The way Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard blew away the competition on the race\u2019s final climb up to the Plateau de Solaison was truly impressive if only because this was a very difficult ascent of 1.3 km at a gradient of 9.2% and they made it look easy. But to suggest, as VeloNews<\/em> does<\/a>, that Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard could \u201cone-two punch\u201d the Tour is to forget that Rogli\u010d\u2019s Slovenian compatriot Tadej Poga\u010dar has won the last two Tours and has done nothing so far this year to suggest he will not be the favourite for a three-peat.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/dauphine\/status\/1536002534908866569<\/p>\n

Plus, there is the little matter of the Ineos Grenadiers who, in one form or another, have won seven of the last ten Tours. However, though Ineos had a great spring, their leader in the Dauphin\u00e9, Tao Geoghegan Hart, finished a distant eighth. In addition, Richard Carapaz had a very hard and disappointing Giro, finishing second to the young Australian Jai Hindley, while the team\u2019s best GC hope, Egan Bernal, is still recovering from a serious crash<\/a> he suffered in Colombia earlier this year. Unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat, it\u2019s hard to see Ineos competing for the yellow jersey this year.<\/p>\n

So, yes, Rogli\u010d and Vingegaard finishing arm in arm on the Plateau de Solaison and one-two in the Dauphin\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0GC definitely sent a strong message to Poga\u010dar: \u201cWe have two strong contenders for the yellow jersey this year, so bring it on.\u201d Poga\u010dar\u2019s reply would probably read something like this. \u201cBoth of you have already finished second to me in the Tour, so I\u2019m not too worried.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year, Jumbo-Visma also have a very strong contender for the Tour de France \u0160koda Green Jersey in the person of multitalented Wout van Aert who won two sprint finishes in the Dauphin\u00e9.<\/em>\u00a0He would have won the third place if he had not celebrated a moment too soon and was nipped at the line<\/a> by Groupama\u2019s David Gaudu. \u201cWhat can I say?\u201d van Aert told journalists after the stage. \u201cI raised my arms a bit too early. I\u2019m really ashamed to lose [the stage] like that.\u201d This was one surprising takeaway from the race that while van Aert may be a super-cyclist, he is not Superman.<\/p>\n

Jumbo-Visma suffered another surprising loss during the Dauphin\u00e9\u00a0when former World Time Trial champion and 2017 Giro d\u2019Italia winner Tom Dumoulin announced his retirement for the end of 2022, following a very disappointing Giro, which he was unable to finish.<\/p>\n

There was also bad news in the Dauphin\u00e9\u00a0for another former champion when four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome was forced to drop out of the race due to illness. The presence of the 37-year-old Israel Star-up Nation rider in the Tour has not yet been confirmed by the team.<\/p>\n

What we can say for certain after this year\u2019s Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9\u00a0is that, barring accident or illness, Jumbo-Visma have a good chance of winning three jerseys in the upcoming Tour de France: green, yellow and polka-dot. But I think we already knew that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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