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Sallanches
148 km
Sunday 13 June
1. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky)
2. Duran (Footon) at 0.26
3. Silin (Katusha) at 0.31
4. Le Mével (FDJ) at 0.33
5. Van Garderen (HTC) at 0.39
Janez Brajkovic wins the 62nd Critérium du Dauphiné.
Boasson Hagen takes the win in Sallanches!
Boasson Hagen goes fast in the downhill to Sallanches. The road is wet. The Norwegian looks good with 2km to go.
Result of the fifth KOM at côte de Domancy, km 143
1. Boasson Hagen, 4 points
at 18 sec
2. Duran, 3 points
at 30 sec
3. Le Mével, 2 points
4. Duran, 1 point
Boasson Hagen has 45 seconds over the bunch. Duran, Le Mével and Silin stay in between. Sicard gets caught by the Contador/Brajkovic group.
Boasson Hagen continues his progression in the côte de Domancy.
Sicard attacks, comes across to Moerenhout. They are 36 seconds behind sole leader Boasson Hagen.
Boasson Hagen is away solo with 7 km to go.
The five breakaway riders only have 30 seconds lead in the last ascent of the côte de Domancy. Boasson Hagen attacks.
At the bell lap, Boasson Hagen, Le Mével, Santaromita, Silin and Duran have 40 seconds over the bunch led by Ag2r.
Result of the fourth KOM at côte de Domancy, km 131.5:
1. Duran (Footon), 4 points
2. Le Mével (FDJ), 3 points
3. Santaromita (Liquigas), 2 points
4. Boasson Hagen (Sky), 1 point
Peloton at 1.15.
Duran attacks just before the top of the côte de Domancy. Le Mével leads the chase.
Anders Lund (Saxo Bank) attacks from the bunch.
Behind Le Mével, Santaromita, Boasson Hagen, Silin and Duran, their five previous breakaway companions are 30 seconds down. The peloton is at 1.30.
Santaromita (Liquigas) rejoin Le Mével, Boasson Hagen, Silin and Duran in the lead.
The peloton crossed the line 1.35 behind the four leaders with two laps to go.
Le Mével, Boasson Hagen, Silin and Duran form a front group of four riders on the line of Sallanches. The peloton is at 1.15.
Result of the third KOM at côte de Domancy, km 120.5:
1. Christophe Le Mével (FDJ), 4 points
2. Duran (Footon), 3 points
3. Boasson Hagen (Sky), 2 points
4. Silin (Katusha), 1 point
Rémi Pauriol crashes downhill.
The accelerations of Christophe Le Mével hurt the legs of his adversaries like the ones of Bernard Hinault in the same hill thirty years ago at the world champion. The two Frenchmen hail from the same province of Côtes d’Armor in Brittany!
Perez and Aerts can’t follow the rhythm of Christophe Le Mével in the côte de Domancy.
It’s game over for David Millar. He’s dropped from the bunch.
12 riders are ready to climb the côte de Domancy for the third time in the lead: Perget (CE), Silin (Katusha), Santaromita (Liquigas), Le Mével (FDJ), Boasson Hagen (Sky), Aerts (Omega), Minard and Pauriol (Cofidis), Perez and Isasi (Euskaltel), Lefèvre (Bbox) and Duran (Footon). Peloton at two minutes.
Le Mével, Silin, Boasson Hagen, Pauriol and Duran are again in the lead with seven chasers on the line where the bunch passes two minutes later.
Result of the second KOM of the côte de Domancy, km 109.5:
1. Le Mével (FDJ), 4 points
2. Pauriol (Cofidis), 3 points
3. Boasson Hagen (Sky), 2 points
4. Duran (Footon), 1 point
Peloton at 1.40.
Ten riders have regrouped at the top the climb. Perez makes the junction downhill.
Boasson Hagen, Silin, Le Mével, Pauriol and Duran are away in the côte de Domancy.
Igor Silin who was third at the U23 world championship won by Romain Sicard last year. He’s first to bridge the gap to Boasson Hagen.
Boasson Hagen attacks in the second ascent of the côte de Domancy.
Result of the second intermediate sprint at Sallanches, km 103.5:
1. Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank), 3 points
2. Cataldo (Quick Step), 2 points
3. Knees (Milram), 1 point
Three riders of Ag2r lead the compact bunch on the line at the second passage. They are 1.10 behind the 17 escapees.
Knees has a flat tyre in the front group.
Result of the first KOM at the côte de Domancy, km 98.5:
1. Mario Aerts (Omega), 4 points
2. Knees (Milram), 3 points
3. Lefèvre (Bbox), 2 points
4. Tjallingii (Rabobank), 1 point
Peloton at 1.20.
The gap is reduced to 1.35 in the first ascent of the côte de Domancy.
The 17 escapees have two minutes lead at the first passage on the finishing line at Sallanches. Brajkovic is in a small group with all HTC-Columbia riders but none of his team-mates ten seconds ahead of the bunch where there is Contador.
The breakaway riders have entered the final circuit of 11 kilometres that includes the côte de Domancy to be climbed five times. Their advantage at Combloux, km 85, is 2.10.
The breakaway riders have covered 32 kilometres in the first hour. The average speed is 41.5km/h so far.
Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel) can’t lose the king of the mountain competition mathematically now. He has to finish the race in the time cut to be awarded at the end of the race.
The HTC-Columbia team has put three riders at the head of the bunch. The gap goes down to 2.10 at km 76.
Result of sprint 1 at Praz-sur-Arly, km 74.5:
1. Tjallingii (Rabobank), 3 points
2. Cataldo (Quick Step), 2 points
3. Knees (Milram), 1 point
Peloton at 2.30.
The gap keeps going up: 2.10 at km 70.
The 17 riders in the lead have an advantage of two minutes in Flumet at km 69.
17 riders in the lead: Perget (CE), Tjallingii (Rabobank), Silin (Katusha), Santaromita (Liquigas), Le Mével (FDJ), Cataldo and De Weert (Quick Step), Boasson Hagen (Sky), Aerts (Omega), Millar (Garmin), Knees (Milram), Minard and Pauriol (Cofidis), Perez and Isasi (Euskaltel), Lefèvre (Bbox) and Duran (Footon). They have one minute lead at km 66.
Aerts (Omega), Knees (Milram) and Millar (Garmin) join the front group. Isasi (Euskaltel) does it too. It makes a breakaway of 17 riders. Peloton at 35 seconds at km 64.
Result at the top of the côte des Rafforts (km 62):
1. Perget (CE), 10 points
2. Minard (Cofidis), 9 points
3. Perez (Euskaltel), 8 points
4. Cataldo (Quick Step), 7 points
5. Duran (Footon), 6 points
6. Tjallingii (Rabobank), 5 points
Peloton at 35 seconds.
After Reimer, Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) is next to pull out. He was the first attacker of the day.
The German road champion Martin Reimer (Cervélo) pulls out of the race.
Two kilometres before the top of the côte des Rafforts, the 13 leaders have a 30 seconds advantage at km 60.
There is a new lead group at km 59: Perget (CE), Tjallingii (Rabobank), Silin (Katusha), Santaromita (Liquigas), Le Mével (FDJ), Cataldo and De Weert (Quick Step), Boasson Hagen (Sky), Minard and Pauriol (Cofidis), Perez (Euskaltel), Lefèvre (Bbox) and Duran (Footon).
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) goes behind the chasers.
Perget (CE), Silin (Katusha), Santaromita (Liquigas), Le Mével (FDJ), Lefèvre (Bbox), Minard (Cofidis) and Duran (Footon).
Rohregger and Lefèvre are back in the bunch. Tjallingi, De Weert and Perez have 15 seconds over 7 riders who have attacked from the bunch. Bunch at 30 seconds.
Rohregger (Milram) and Lefèvre (Bbox) attack from the bunch in the chase of the leading trio formed of Tjallingii, De Weert and Perez. The peloton is only 25 behind the escapees at km 57.
Taarämae gets dropped. The Estonian champion was one of the favourites of the Dauphiné. Yesterday he lost twelve minutes at l’Alpe d’Huez.
Tjallingii, De Weert and Perez are the only three riders remaining in the lead as they are now climbing the 11.2km côte des Rafforts. The peloton is 30 seconds behind.
Roels and Brandt are dropped. They get caught by the bunch, as well as Augé who is quickly dropped at the back of the peloton.
The breakaway seems to diying slowly but surely. At km 49, they only have 45 seconds lead left.
A new accurate time has been given on Radio Tour: 1.10 at km 45.
At the entrance of Albertville (km 41), the town of the winter Olympic Games in 1992, the advantage of the eight leading riders has decreased to 1.20. This is due to the combination of the efforts of three teams to pace at the head of the bunch: Liquigas, Sky and Katusha.
Tjallingii (Rabobank), Brandt (Omega), Meier (Garmin), De Weert (Quick Step), Augé and Dumoulin (Cofidis), Roels (Milram) and Perez (Euskaltel) have 1.45 lead at km 38.
At km 33, the gap is two minutes.
On his way to Allevard-les-Bains for the start of today’s stage, race leader Jani Brajkovic twitted from the team bus: “Leaving Alpe d’Huez. Gorgeous area, will be back for vacations this summer.” Now the question is: will RadioShack attribute holidays to Brajkovic in July or August? Yesterday, the Slovenian twitted: “I think it’s time to start studying french.” Brajkovic isn’t yet selected for the Tour de France. He’s one of the 14 candidates at RadioShack for the nine available spots.
The eight breakaway riders have 2.15 lead now. It keeps going down at km 29.
As Team Sky took the command of the bunch, the gap is reduced to 2.40 at km 24 in Aiton.
At km 19, the time gap between the eight breakaway riders and the bunch is 3.40.
In Le Dauphiné, Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) who is the best young rider and big revelation of the race, explains the help he got from Chris Horner (RadioShack) up to l’Alpe d’Huez: “I’ve suffered a lot at the end but Horner helped me a lot. He didn’t have any reason for doing it, except that we’re both American. It’s really nice of him. When Contador attacked, I was at my limits. I couldn’t follow him. I’ve done my best. This climb was really hard for me. When I looked at the top, I thought I would never make it. I hope nothing wrong will happen during the last stage because my legs are dead.”
Race leader Janez Brajkovic said in today’s Le Dauphiné: “At l’Alpe d’Huez, I haven’t reached my physical limits but I was very close! There’s one stage left. I haven’t won yet. But I have good form, I should be all right. The tactic consists in staying with the favourites and not let any of them go.”
At km 13, the gap is now 1.40.
The gap at km 11 is 55 seconds.
Six climbs count for the king of the mountain competition today:
Km 62: Côtes des Rafforts, cat.2 (11.2km at 5.2%)
Km 98.5: Côte de Domancy, cat. 3 (2.4km at 9.2%)
Km 109.5: Côte de Domancy, cat. 3 (2.4km at 9.2%)
Km 120.5: Côte de Domancy, cat. 3 (2.4km at 9.2%)
Km 131.5: Côte de Domancy, cat. 3 (2.4km at 9.2%)
Km 143: Côte de Domancy, cat. 3 (2.4km at 9.2%)
Two intermediate sprints are scheduled today at Praz-sur-Arly (km 74.5) and Sallanches (km 103.5, second passage on the finishing line)
Tjallingii (Rabobank), Brandt (Omega), Meier (Garmin), De Weert (Quick Step), Augé and Dumoulin (Cofidis), Roels (Milram) and Perez (Euskaltel) have 20 seconds lead at km 5.
Tjallingii (Rabobank), Brandt (Omega), Meier (Garmin), De Weert (Quick Step), Augé and Dumoulin (Cofidis), Roels (Milram) and Perez (Euskaltel).
At km 2, eight riders have gone clear. The are ten seconds ahead of the bunch.
Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) is the first attacker of the day.
The start proper has been given to 148 riders at 13:10. One non starter: Francisco Perez (Caisse d’Epargne).
Janez Brajkovic (RadioShack) retains the yellow/blue jersey he got after Wednesday’s time trial on stage 3. He also leads the points classification, so Alberto Contador (Astana) who is second will wear the green jersey. Another Spaniard, Egoi Martinez (Euskaltel) is the new king of the mountains and wears the polka dot jersey today.
Brajkovic has been impeccable in defence of the yellow/blue jersey yesterday at l’Alpe d’Huez. The Slovenian has a 1.41 advantage over Contador on GC. Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) is third at 2.41, Jurgen Van den Broeck (Omega Pharma-Lotto) is fourth at 3.46 and Nicolas Vogondy (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) is fifth and best Frenchman at 4.01.
Brajkovic has 87 points. Contador follows with 83 points. Geraint Thomas (Sky) is third with 67 points.
Martinez has a comfortable lead in the king of the mountains competition. With 55 points, he precedes Brajkovic who has 33 and Contador who has 32. Previous leader Eros Capecchi (Footon-Servetto) has 31 points.
Euskaltel leads the teams competition ahead of Ag2r-La Mondiale. The French team has a deficit of 1.39.
There’s a new start time: 13.05.
Welcome to the live coverage of the seventh and last stage of the 62nd Criterium du Dauphiné from Allevard-les-Bains to Sallanches (148 kilometres). The stage is dedicated to the celebration of the thirty years anniversary of Bernard Hinault’s victory at the 1980 world championship with the presence of his team-mates from that glorious day of his career. The same climb of Domancy will be covered five times by the riders of the Dauphiné today.
