{"id":192988,"date":"2023-06-12T11:39:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=192988"},"modified":"2023-06-12T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:39:20","slug":"vingegaard-bullies-dauphine-in-dominant-tour-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/06\/12\/vingegaard-bullies-dauphine-in-dominant-tour-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Vingegaard Bullies Dauphin\u00e9 in Dominant Tour Prep"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is one major takeaway from this year\u2019s Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9: Jonas Vingegaard is ready to take on Tadej Poga\u010dar in the Tour de France in three weeks\u2019 time. The Jumbo-Visma leader\u2019s superiority over his GC opponents was so evident that even his rivals appeared to have thrown in the towel before the race heated up.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

When last year\u2019s Tour winner broke away from the rest of the peloton on the C\u00f4te de Th\u00e9sy, the last climb of stage 5 (3.7km at 8.1%), only Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) attempted to stay with him, but he was dropped almost immediately. And there were no serious counterattacks, as if all of Vingegaard\u2019s rivals had agreed before the race that they had no chance and would simply fight it out for the remaining podium places.<\/p>\n

Vingegaard\u2019s dominance over the likes of Carapaz, Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal\u2013Quick-Step), Ben O\u2019Connor (AG2R Citro\u00ebn), Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) and Mikel Landa (Movistar) was imperial. He won stage 5 by 31 seconds, to take the leader\u2019s yellow jersey from fellow Dane Mikkel Bjerg (UAE Team Emirates). He then won stage 7 in similar dominant style, beating Yates into second place by 41 seconds, with Jai Hindley finishing third, at 53 seconds. His final margin over Yates in the GC was 2min 23sec, a very large gap for an eight-day race and the largest victory margins for the Dauphin\u00e9 since 1993. O\u2019Connor came in third, 2min 56sec behind the winner. \u201cWhen [Vingegaard] went on his sprint attack, I found it really hard to follow,\u201d Yates said after stage 7<\/a>. \u201cI tried to go at my own pace, but it wasn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win was Vingegaard\u2019s 11th of the season and Jumbo-Visma\u2019s 35th victory of 2023. It underscored Vingegaard\u2019s status as favourite for this year\u2019s Tour, with only Poga\u010dar, who has not raced since breaking his wrist in a crash in this year\u2019s Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge, considered a serious rival. But this Dauphin\u00e9 wasn\u2019t merely an overwhelming rider success; it was also a collective Jumbo-Visma triumph. Frenchman Christophe Laporte won two sprint victories as well as the green jersey, which meant that the Dutch team won four of the eight stages and two of the four jerseys.<\/p>\n

\n
\n

8\ufe0f\u20e3 \u00e9tapes, 6\ufe0f\u20e3 vainqueurs diff\u00e9rents, 3\ufe0f\u20e3 porteurs du Maillot Jaune. \ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f
\ud83c\udfac Revivez le meilleur du #Dauphin\u00e9<\/a> 2023 \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n

8\ufe0f\u20e3 stages, 6\ufe0f\u20e3 different winners, 3\ufe0f\u20e3 Yellow Jersey holders. \ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f
\ud83c\udfac Enjoy the best moments of the #Dauphin\u00e9<\/a> 2023 \ud83d\ude0d pic.twitter.com\/cO72rBVDgH<\/a><\/p>\n

— Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9 (@dauphine) June 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n