{"id":186057,"date":"2025-06-15T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186057\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T09:55:10","slug":"pogacar-holds-watts-in-reserve-and-drops-vingegaard-with-ease-criterium-du-dauphine-stage-7-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/186057\/","title":{"rendered":"Poga\u010dar Holds Watts in Reserve and Drops Vingegaard with Ease | Criterium du Dauphine Stage 7 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tadej Poga\u010dar continued his dominance on the queen stage of the 2025 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, dropping Jonas Vingegaard on Mont\u00e9e de Valmeinier and again confirming he is on a different level.<\/p>\n

\"\"Criterium du Dauphine stage 7 2025 profile<\/p>\n

It was the queen stage of the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, featuring three major climbs and a summit finish on Mont\u00e9e de Valmeinier (16.5 km at 6.8%). The stage was exhausting, with the GC group riding at a high pace over the Col de la Madeleine (5.7 \u1d49W\/kg for 64 minutes) and Col de la Croix de Fer, which sits at high altitude. Emmanuel Buchmann burned 3,282 kilojoules over 3.5 hours at a rate of 15.79 kJ\/kg\/h, highlighting the intensity of the day.<\/p>\n

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The stage itself wasn\u2019t particularly eventful. Romain Bardet, caught from the breakaway, reached the summit of Valmeinier 1800 as his father watched live. Visma | Lease a Bike had no answer for Tadej Poga\u010dar, who attacked with 11.9 km to go, this time out of the saddle and clearly exploding harder than on previous stages, successfully dropping Jonas Vingegaard. In the end, Poga\u010dar beat the Dane by only 14 seconds, but that gap was limited because he eased off in the final kilometers, lowering his average power. Florian Lipowitz showed another strong performance, finishing third.<\/p>\n

Results powered by FirstCycling.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Poga\u010dar produced a solid effort on Valmeinier 1800, especially considering the conditions. He did 6.53 \u1d49W\/kg for the full 39:31 climb and 6.74 \u1d49W\/kg for the 28:26 segment following his attack. His average watts would have been even higher if he hadn\u2019t eased up near the end.<\/p>\n

When adjusted for altitude, the performance looks even more impressive: 7.11 \u1d49W\/kg for 28:26 post-attack and 6.84 \u1d49W\/kg for the full 39:31. As mentioned in the previous article, Poga\u010dar is still far from his peak form, he is clearly saving his legs for a more serious race and is not pushed to his limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tadej Poga\u010dar continued his dominance on the queen stage of the 2025 Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9, dropping Jonas Vingegaard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-186057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114686782555168183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}