Official website of Critérium du Dauphiné cycling race 2018

Jersey wearers 2017

Yellow Jersey

Time

73

J. FUGLSANG
ASTANA PRO TEAM 29h 05' 54''
Green jersey

Points

111

A. DEMARE
FDJ 59 pts
Polka-dot jersey

Best climber

83

K. BOUWMAN
TEAM LOTTO NL - JUMBO 44 pts
White jersey

Best Young

193

E. BUCHMANN
BORA - HANSGROHE 29h 08' 26''
Team

Best Team

AG2R LA MONDIALE
87h 44' 22''

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A generation on the rise

The 70th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné will start with a 6.6 km prologue through the streets of Valence on 3 June. After a long, hard slog on the roads of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the adventure will draw to a close in Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc on 10 June. The Alps will separate the men from the boys in the Dauphiné and the Tour de France. A dynamic...

Critérium du Dauphiné 2018 : The alpine equation

The route of the 70th edition, which will take place between 3rd and 10th June, was unveiled this morning in Lyon by Christian Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France, and Laurent Wauquiez, President of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Council. One month before the start of the Tour de France, the favourites such as Vincenzo Nibali, Rigoberto Uran, Romain Bardet, Warren...

Eagles or idiots?

"The continuity of grandiose displays makes us either exalted or stupid. In the Alps, one is either an eagle or an idiot", says a poem by Victor Hugo, who never got to watch a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné!

Time and again in the history of the race, champions have come to face their moment of truth at the bottom of the mountains where the legends...