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The individual time trial on Wednesday gave Tony Martin the stage win and a new rider put on the race leader’s jersey as the Dauphiné passed the half way point in racing.
Reigning world time trial champion Tony Martin stormed the 32.5km super-flat course to earn the win with a best time of 36:55, a full 47-seconds ahead of second place finisher Rohan Dennis of Garmin-Sharp. The consolation prize for Dennis was the yellow jersey as the young Australian rider took...
After being part of a day-long break, Matthew Busche seized the moment to attack with 5km to go and attempt a solo victory at Valmorel.
Matthew Busche: “ 'Shoot! Go!' Those were the only things I was thinking when I saw Froome approaching at less than 200 meters to go. There was not much I could do. I gave all that I had and I come away with real mixed emotions.”
Busche went under the red kite still solo, but behind him Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff)...
A last chance for the sprinters was foiled by a successful breakaway that put a familiar French face on the podium.
Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) outsprinted his three breakaway companions to take the win in the Critérium du Dauphiné’s stage 6 on Friday in Grenoble and take his first win of the season. He outkicked Jose Herrada of Movistar and Kevin Seeldraeyers of Astana and well as Egor Silin also of the Kazakh team. Taking the field sprint for fifth was...
On the eve of the Tour de Suisse, Fabian Cancellara met with the press and answered questions about his upcoming race program.
Cancellara: “I haven’t been working too much on my time trial bike, perhaps only three or four times this year. My training and goals have been elsewhere. My preparation for the spring classics this year was perfect and time trial training has not been very much a part of that. Tomorrow I do have ambitions of course, because the...