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Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 : Les Gets for Christophe Kern

The 5th stage from the Parc des Oiseaux in Villars-les-Dombes and Les Gets was the first real mountain stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 and it was won by a French rider, Christophe Kern, after a long solo escape by Jason McCartney.

This stage didn't lead to any changes in the general classification which is still led by Bradley Wiggins.

The summary of the 5th stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 : Parc des Oiseaux in Villars-les-Dombes > Les Gets

Critérium du Dauphiné 2011: the ITT for Tony Martin, the yellow jersey for Bradley Wiggins

Today a 42.5 kilometer long time trial was at the programme of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011. A kind of special time trial around Grenoble since it was exactly the same race route as for the final and decisive time trial of the Tour de France 2011.

The weather had quite big influence on the result of this individual time trial, even though it's not surprising to see the specialist Tony Martin (Team HTC-Highroad) win it, where Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) took the yellow-bleu jersey of the general classification.

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John Degenkolb climbs to the top in Lyon during the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 (+photos)

A 179 kilometer long stage was on the programme of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 today. A stage with a hill top finish in Lyon which didn't however stop the sprinters from going for the stage win, with John Degenkolb (Team HTC-Highroad) turning out to be the fastest ... or the smartest!

The summary of the 2nd stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 - Voiron > Lyon

After Boom, Jurgen van den Broeck in the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011

The prologue in the streets of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne (see The Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule for full details about the race route of each of the stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné) which was won yesterday by Lars Boom (Rabobank). In the first stage today, immediately a stage with a mountain top finish, it was Jurgen van den Broeck's (Omega Pharma-Lotto) turn to finish solo on top.
Alexandre Vinokourov (Astana) takes over the yellow/bleu leader's jersey from Lars Boom.

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The Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

This Sunday, the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 -often still incorrectly called Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré by some- will start with an individual time trial in the city of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in Savoie. 1064.4 kilometers and one week further, the riders of the Critérium du Dauphiné will finish in La Toussuire.

In this article, you'll find all the details about the race route, with the route drawn on Google Maps/Google Earth, the stage profiles and the time- and route schedules. You'll also find the exact locations of the start and finish arches in each of the cities and the road the riders follow from the départ fictif to the départ réel.

This race, nicknamed "pure concentration of mountains" by its organisor, is a perfect preparation for the Tour de France 2011 and we'll thus see several riders who ...

Critérium du Dauphiné 2011: the race route officially announced, calling for climbers!

From one Critérium (the Critérium International) to another. Well, at least for the announcements because ASO today announced the race route of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 (also still known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré).

The race route which was announced today seems to fit perfectly to good climbers with no less than 5 mountain top finishes (out of 6 stages in line!). While it seemed that the Giro d'Italia 2011 had a very big number of mountain top finishes, the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011 seems to beat the Italian stage race when we calculate the number of mountain top finishes for a similar amount of stages!

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