Christoph Laporte crosses the finish line as winner of stage 3 for Team Jumbo-Visma Today’s stage 3 of Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 was the longest stage of this year’s race. The riders were tested on a 194.1-kilometer route from Monistrol-sur-Loire to Le Coteau.
The parcours featured a Category 2 climb early in the stage and a Category 4 climb late in the stage. The vertical challenges were not expected to prove too much of a test for the sprinters in the peloton and a mass sprint across the finish line was expected.
Team DSM’s Lorenzo Milesi and TotalEnergies’ Mathieu Burgaudeau attacked shortly after the start of the stage in sunny weather conditions and established a breakaway group. The duo, however, was reeled in by the main peloton group with 118 kilometers left of today’s battle.
A large crash occurred in the peloton with fifty kilometers left of today’s stage 3. The crash involved yesterday’s stage winner Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-QuickStep), Jimmy Janssens (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Rune Herregodts (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty), Rein Taaramae (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty), Jason Osborne (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Matteo Jorgenson (Team Movistar), Oscar Onley (Team DSM), Lenny Martinez (Groupama-FDJ), Joe Dombrowski (Astana), Mauri Vansevenant (Soudal-QuickStep), Andrey Zeits (Astana), Dani Martinez (Ineos-Grenadiers), and Team DSM’s Marco Brenner. Zeits abandoned Criterium du Dauphine because of injuries sustained in the crash.
With twenty kilometers left of stage 3, the peloton was still together, and the riders were cruising at a relaxed pace of 35 km/h while teams such as Jumbo-Visma, EF Education-EasyPost, Ineos-Grenadiers, and Cofidis were controlling at the front.
With ten kilometers left, […]
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