Race notes
– Stage 4 of the 2023 Criterium du Dauphine is a 31.1km individual time trial from Cours to Belmont-de-la-Loire
– First rider off is Donovan Grondin (Arkéa-Samsic) at 1341 CET
– Last rider off is race leader Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) at 1600
– Riders leave at minute intervals Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Critérium du Dauphiné race leader after stage 3 (Image credit: ASO) – 10 riders to watch at the 2023 Critérium du Dauphiné
– How to watch the 2023 Critérium du Dauphiné – Live streaming
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15:06:49Quite apart from taking the stage win, of course, Bjerg is in the overall lead: "I texted my coach Kevin yesterday, I said I wanted to go for the jersey and the stage and to be honest I think he was sitting in Australia thinking this guy’s nuts, but yeah, he believed in me, we made a plan and I managed to live up to expectations."15:03:59Some more from Bjerg about how he handled an extremely difficult time trial to calculate your energy, with that tricky opening first climb, long fast descent and then draggy climb – where Vingegaard suffered, as he told reporters – to the finish. "The first climb, I wanted to go hard but not above my limit because there were some really hard climbs to come. I just stayed within my limits, did the descent as […]
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