Criterium du Dauphine '25, Stage 7: Trying to Come Back

Once Pogacar had gone, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) settled into his climbing rhythm.  The attack had come with twelve kilometers to climb, seven kilometers later Vingegaard was starting to reverse the gap.  At his point he was down eighteen seconds.  The question is, "Will five kilometers be enough road to reel the Maillot Jaune back in?"  Alas, the answer was no.  He did reduce Pogacar's advantage by four seconds, but clearly that wasn't enough to prevent him losing even more time to his main rival.  Behind, others were losing even more time including his own teammates who had done so much to try an isolate the main in the leader's yellow jersey.

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"Trying to Come Back CdD25-40" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Criterium du Dauphine '25, Stage 7: Here We Go!

From the previous post, you know that Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates) had been riding tempo on the front of the group with his teammate and yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar.  Just moments earlier, he was riding hard, head down, clearly burying himself in a last ditched effort to drop whomever he could.  He was also chasing down Jonas Vingegaard's (Visma-Lease a Bike) teammates, Sepp Kuss.  So, all together, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) swung out of the line of riders, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) let a gap open up, Sivakov swung off the front spent from his effort and he had just about caught Kuss.  As all of those things happened, the move came from Tadej.  This time he stood up and stomped on the pedals.  Jonas Vingegaard knew it was coming and was right on his pedals in an effort to stay with the Maillot Jaune.  He couldn't.  Nor could anyone hold Vingegaard's wheel either.   All with another twelve kilometers yet to race!

I'm embarrassed to admit that I have been spelling Remco Evenepoel's name this entire Dauphine.  Sorry to all of his fans around the world.

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"Here We Go! CdD25-39" (Original art by Greig Leach)