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2025-06-14T12:39:22.950Z
Those five have now been joined by Martin, Martinez, Lutsenko and Higuita.
2025-06-14T12:38:36.613Z
The break as split, with Healy, Kuss, Buitrago, Traeen and Bardet going clear.
2025-06-14T12:37:36.808Z
Jorgenson is setting the pace in the much-reduced peloton for Visma.
2025-06-14T12:36:03.760Z
Healy hasn’t gone clear, but Armirail, Leknessund and Romeo have been dropped.
2025-06-14T12:34:45.661Z
Up ahead, Ben Healy has attacked.
2025-06-14T12:32:39.131Z
Campanaerts is finished, and caused significant damage. There are only around 15 riders left i the peloton, and the gap between it and the leaders has plunged to one minute.
2025-06-14T12:31:40.195Z
Campanaerts has upped the pace big time. It seems Visma might be setting something up…
2025-06-14T12:30:06.090Z
There’s a change at the front of the peloton as Visma take over from UAE. Campanaerts is their man setting the pace.
2025-06-14T12:28:05.134Z
The break’s lead is going up again. It’s risen to over two minutes for the first time all day.
2025-06-14T12:23:51.179Z
Martin and Romeo are now also with the leaders.
2025-06-14T12:21:00.195Z
Leknessund’s issue doesn’t seem to be a lack of legs, as he’s returned back into the group now. Romeo remains dropped, however, and has just been caught by Martin.
2025-06-14T12:18:47.773Z
Romeo and Leknessund have been dropped out of the break, and are about 15 seconds adrift.
2025-06-14T12:16:05.347Z
Halfway up the Col de la Croix Fer, and no attacks yet by any of the GC men. With such a long, and not especially technical, descent to come after, they may deem it best to hold fire until the final climb – but there are still plenty of steep gradients to overcome yet on this one.
2025-06-14T12:12:45.231Z
Martin is 17th on GC at 4:44, so not much of a threat on GC.
2025-06-14T12:09:04.923Z
Guillaume Martin has attacked out of the peloton.
2025-06-14T12:05:39.836Z
The break at the front of the race. Their lead is now 1:40.
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2025-06-14T11:57:35.876Z
Paret=Peintre is reabsorbed back into the peloton.
2025-06-14T11:57:04.410Z
The gap is going the other way now, growing back up to 1:30.
2025-06-14T11:53:14.593Z
UAE Team Emirates – XRG lead the peloton, with Nils Politt setting the pace.
2025-06-14T11:52:14.533Z
Paret-Peintre is the first rider to be dropped from the breakaway on this climb.
2025-06-14T11:44:39.673Z
Buitrago has needed to have a bike change.
2025-06-14T11:44:22.004Z
The advantage has swung towards the peloton on the early slopes of the Col de la Croix Fer. The gap has been reduced, to 1 minute.
80KM TO GO
2025-06-14T11:41:45.210Z
For an idea of how much damage the Col de la Madeleine did, this was all that was left of the peloton as they neared the top.
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2025-06-14T11:37:24.046Z
The leaders start the climb, with an advantage over the peloton of 1:15. They’ll need to increase that on this climb if they’re to stand a chance of competing for the stage win.
2025-06-14T11:35:20.537Z
The riders are done descending and are about to start the second climb – the Col de la Croix de Fer.
2025-06-14T11:33:16.826Z
Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, poised for battle on the coming climbs.
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2025-06-14T11:30:25.720Z
The break have grown their lead a little during the second half of this descent – it’s now up to 1:25.
90KM TO GO
2025-06-14T11:25:53.509Z
Here are the updated KOM rankings:
2025-06-14T11:22:39.599Z
The gap holds steady at just over a minute, as the riders fly down the descent.
100KM TO GO
2025-06-14T11:21:13.122Z
The peloton that reached the top of the climb was mch reduced from that which started it. It’s been whittled down to less than 40 riders.
2025-06-14T11:18:26.291Z
Higuita led the break over the climb to take 15 KOM points, followed by Buitrago and Armirail. That means Armirail is now the vitual leader in the mountains classification.
2025-06-14T11:17:06.656Z
The riders have at last, after over an hour of racing, reached the top of the Col de la Madeleine. The break leads the peloton by just over a minute.
COL DE LA MADELEINE
2025-06-14T11:13:59.396Z
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2025-06-14T11:11:14.928Z
Leknessund is back in the peloton, which is just under a minute behind.
2025-06-14T11:10:19.524Z
Leknessund is being dropped out of the break. He must have made a big effort to bridge the gap from the peloton.
2025-06-14T11:05:12.844Z
It hasn’t taken them long – Leknessund and Traen are with the leaders now.
2025-06-14T11:04:07.644Z
And some riders still haven’t given up hope of joining the lead group. Leknessund and Traen have jumped out of the peloton and are in pursuit.
2025-06-14T11:03:05.680Z
The race has settled down a bit now, but the elastic between the lead group and the peloton hasn’t snapped. Their lead has grown, but only a little, to 45 seconds.
2025-06-14T10:58:55.995Z
The leaders have 40 seconds on the peloton, as they come ever closer to the top of the Madeleine.
110KM TO GO
2025-06-14T10:56:49.845Z
A 13th rider has joined the lead group – Iván Romeo.
2025-06-14T10:55:04.285Z
The 12 riders in the lead group are: Kuss, Lutsenko, Healy, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Buitrago, Meintjes, Armirail, Jegat, Alfonso, Combaud, Juan Guillermo Martinez and Bardet.
2025-06-14T10:54:01.557Z
Bardet has two teammates with him in this lead group. This feels like a plan has been hatched by Picnic-PostNL to get their retiring star a fairytale end to his career.
2025-06-14T10:50:51.168Z
Romain Bardet was chasing them, and he too has now joined the leaders.
2025-06-14T10:50:18.584Z
The Buitrago chase group has caught the leading quartet. So we now have a new lead group of 11.
2025-06-14T10:48:31.484Z
Armirail has been dropped out of the lead group. The pace is still high as they continue to climb, and try to stay clear of the peloton.
2025-06-14T10:47:18.071Z
A chase group of 6 have formed behind, featuring Buitrago. The Colombian is no longer a GC threat, having fallen to 12-49 down after yesterday’s stage.
2025-06-14T10:46:21.942Z
This new leading quintet have a lead of 30 seconds on the peloton
2025-06-14T10:42:17.540Z
That trio have joined up to Paret-Peintre and Armirail.
2025-06-14T10:41:08.199Z
Visma aren’t done yet. Kuss counters, and has gone clear with Lutsenko and Healy, the latter trying again having been in the previous chase group.
2025-06-14T10:40:20.382Z
The Jorgenson group has been neutralised, and brought back into the peloton.
2025-06-14T10:38:20.072Z
Paret-Peintre and Armirail are just a few seconds ahead of the Jorgenson group, which is itself just a few seconds ahead of the peloton.
120KM TO GO
2025-06-14T10:36:34.031Z
The other riders with Jorgenson are: Higuita, Healy, Leijnse, Jegat, Traen, Clément Braz Afonso and Juan Guillermo Martinez. Baudin has been dropped from the group.
2025-06-14T10:34:48.498Z
Jorgenson is not just a satellite rider for Visma-Lease a Bike, but a GC threat – he’s fifth on GC, just 1-41 down on Pogačar. There’s no way UAE Team Emirates – XRG can afford to let him up the road.
2025-06-14T10:32:53.957Z
Higuita, Healy and Baudin are among the other riders in this 9-man chase.
2025-06-14T10:31:49.236Z
A chase group has formed behind that duo, and it’s a dangerous one – Matteo Jorgenson is in it.
2025-06-14T10:28:43.066Z
Bruno Armirail and Valentin Paret-Peintre are the latest riders to attack and gain a gap of about 20 seconds over the peloton.
2025-06-14T10:27:03.445Z
Sepp Kuss was one of the riders in the chase group who went after Campanaerts, before all being brought back the peloton. It’s clear Visma-Lease a Bike have a plan to get satellite riders up the road to try to unsettle UAE Team Emirates-XRG and Pogačar – perhaps remembering how successful that ploy was in winning the Giro d’Italia with Simon Yates.
2025-06-14T10:24:49.672Z
Lenny Martinez is the biggest GC man to be seen struggling to hold on in the peloton. The young Frenchman hasn’t shown the form so far this Dauphiné as he did earlier in the season.
2025-06-14T10:23:11.085Z
And now that chase group too has been brought back by the peloton.
2025-06-14T10:22:57.808Z
Campanaerts’ time out in front hasn’t lasted long – he’s been caught by the chase group.
2025-06-14T10:21:53.035Z
Campanaerts at the front of the race
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2025-06-14T10:16:41.765Z
A large chase group has formed behind Campanaerts and is closing in on him.
2025-06-14T10:15:35.228Z
Many more riders are dropping out the back of the peloton as they climb, and a gruppetto has been formed. This could be a long day for those in it, especially if it takes a long time for the break to form.
2025-06-14T10:12:52.227Z
The riders started climbing the Col de la Madeleine right from the start, and already some are being dropped – including Jonathan Milan.
2025-06-14T10:12:02.835Z
Campanaerts has a gap, and is being chased by Alex Baudin.
2025-06-14T10:09:36.845Z
Victor Campanaerts is the first rider to make a move.
2025-06-14T10:08:41.145Z
And they’re off!
OFFICIAL START
2025-06-14T10:07:19.084Z
The riders have been making their way through the neutralised one and will be racing in just a few minutes.
2025-06-14T10:02:13.829Z
With no less than three hors category climbs to overcome in the space of just 132.7km, this is the queen stage of this year’s Dauphiné. The Col de la Madeleine and Col de la Croix Fer are tackled back to back first, followed by a short valley road prior to a final climb and summit finish to Valmeinier 1800.
2025-06-14T09:58:20.540Z
2025-06-14T09:56:40.990Z
As a result of that stage win, Pogačar is now at the top of the GC rankings, leading Jonas Vingegaard by 43 seconds and Florian Lipowit by 54, while former leader Remco Evenepoel has now slipped to fourth at 1-22. He’s in a commanding position and looking strong as ever – but there are plenty of climbs today for that situation to change.
2025-06-12T16:51:46.372Z
The GC race exploded into life yesterday as Tadej Pogačar – as Tadej Pogačar is wont to do – stamped his authority on the race with a devastating attack in the final 10km.