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Criterium du Dauphine 2016: Prologue

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January 1 - June 12, Les Geꦏts, France, Road - WorldTour

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Welcome to live coverage of the 2016 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Criterium du Dauphine prologue

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Have you recovered from the Giro? It's time to get big-time racing underway again with the Criterium du Dauphine🌳. The first few riders are al♍ready on their way up this very short but very steep prologue. 

Zico Waeytens was the first rider to depart this morning. You can find the full list of start times for today's stage here. 

The profile is challenging enough and the course is made all the more difficult with all the twists and turns en-route to the top🃏. This is what the riders are facing today. 

We've got our first two finishers and Louis Meintjes has set the quickest time so far. He stopp✃ed the clock at 12:30, almost two minutes quicker than💞 Waeytens. Let's see how long his time should stand, looking at the riders to come, he should get a little while in the hot seat. 

For many, the Dauphine will be the last time they race ahead of the Tour de France and it will be our last chance to see where their form is ahead of the big race. Take a look at our full preview for the Criter🔴ium du Dauphi꧅ne here. 

Slagter is the closest to Meintjes' fastest time. The Cannondale rider is 26 seconds back on the South African, who is looking pre🍨tt🧔y comfortable right now. 

Adam Yates pushes Meintjes off the top spot with a considerable margin. The Orica-GreenEdg🎉e rider is 23 seconds faster than Meintjes.ܫ 

Sky's Michal Kwiatkowski is often pretty handy in these short prologues and he sets a solid time of 12:21, 14 seconds shy of Yateꦫs' ♈effort. 

The weather 🙈is holding out at present for the riders but there is weather expected before the end of the stage. That could affect some of the later starters such as Alberto🐼 Contador if it comes to fruition. 

This is how the top 10 looks at the moment. 

Dimension Data's Stephen Cummings has slotted into third place with a time of 12:꧅29. Yates still has the quickest time thus far with his time of 🐼12:07. 

Thibaut Pinot warming up. He wi🦩ll start in just over 1ꦍ0 minutes. 

Joa😼quim Rodriguez has finished his test. He slots into the top 10 for now with a time of 12:38. How long can he stay there though? There are still a lo♒t of riders to come. 

Julian Alaphilippe storms up the climb to set a new fastest time of🍸 12:00. Alaphilippe has been on a roll recently, and he arrives at the Dauphine off the back of his Tour of California victory. 

After th🥂at run of times, this is what the new top 10 looks like. 

Tony Martin is out on course, can he beat his teammate's time? It'sဣ going 𝓡to be tough. 

How do you get down from a u♚phill time trial at a ski resort? Well in a ski lift of course. 

Dayer Quinta♚na finishes his ride and it's a disappointing time for the Colombia✅n. He stops the clock at 12:56. 

Daniel Navarro, however, has put in a very good time and his 12:19 is enough to stick hi🌳m iꦬnto provisional third place. 

Perhaps unsurprisingly on this steep climb, Tonyꦐ Martin is unable to better Alaphilippe's time. He's over a miꦕnute behind the Frenchman at 13:02. 

Thibaut Pinot goes fifth fastest with his effort of 12:28. Pinot has really come leaps and bounds in the time trial discipline this season🌃. Actually, the෴ FDJ team as a whole has really worked well on their time trialling. 

Chris Froome was one of the favourites going iꦚnto today's stage and he had lived up to the billing. He kicks Alaphilippe off the hot seat with a time of 11:49. That is a great time and a big signal to his rivals who are yet to set off. 

Pinot says that h🎃e's not particularly happy or disappointed with his effort today. 

So after tha📖t little re-shuffling of the standings, this is what the top 10 looks like at the moment. 

Froome averaged a zip♛py 20.31kph on that time tri💃al. 

Alaphilippe has some fun on the way back down to t🌄he t💯eam busses. 

Romain Bardet has n🦂ot long cr🌳ossed the line and his time of 12:05 puts him into third place for now. 

Bardet recovers after his big effort. 

We've still got over 70 riders still to roll down the ramp, including Alberto Contador. The Spaniard is targeting the Tour de France and Rio and said earlier this week that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:he may also ride the Vuelta a Espana. 

Riders warming down 🌸at the finish earlier on. 

Romain Bardet, who 🎐is currently in provisional third was not overly impre⛎ssed by his own effort. 

Ryder Hesjedal has just started. He is looking to put a disappoꦜinting Giro d'Italia behind him here. What can he do today?

Froome says that despღite his great time, he still has some work ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto do in terms of his fitness. 

A reminder of the top 10 at the moment. 

Mikel Landa finished his effort with the seventh fastest time of 12:20 and it looks like he's recovered from his Giro d'It💮alia. 

This is Landa after that effort.

Hesjedal finishes with a time of 12:25, which sticks him into the top 10. Trek's other leader Mollema is still to come in about 30 min♔utes. 

Sergio Henao will be off in around 20 minutes. The Dauphine is his first race since the UCI cleared him of any wrong doing followin𝓡g an investigation into his biological passport. The Colombian was supposed to ride the Giro d'Italia but is now focused on a spot at the Tour de France. 

The latest top 10 with꧑ Hesjedal clinging onto 10th place for now. 

Cloud is moving over the course and could we be about to see that predicted rain?We've still got about 35 riders to depart soꦺ they will be hoping that is not the case. 

We also have the Philadelphia Cycling Classic today and you can watch that live on Cyclingnews here. 

Simon Gerrans rolls off the start ramp. Today will be about conserving some energy for the sprinting stages late🌱r in the week. 

Edvald Boasson Hagen also 🐻out on course and he looks like he's saving himself for later in the week. He's definitely not going full gas.

Still to come are Rohan Dennis, Sergio Henao, Chad Haga, Bauke Mollema, Fabio Aru, Wout Poels and Alberto Contador plus a few mo꧟re. Will any of these guys be able to knock Froome off the top spot? It's going to be difficult. 

Of course, Richie Porte is also still to go. He is sandwiched 𒈔between Contador and Poels as the penultimate rider to depart. 

Here is Alberto Contador and his ༺expectations from today. 

Some big crowds cheering on at the side of the road. Simon Gerrans currently tacklin🅷g one of the steepest secti꧟ons of the course, which goes up to 19 per cent. 

Gerrans comes home in a time🦋 of 13:30 ans he'll be just happy that this is d🌼one and dusted. 

Bauke Mollema gets under way and we're appro﷽aching the final 10 to go. 

Rohan Dennis finishes and he can'𒉰t quite manage to better Froome's time. He stops the clock at 12:37 and 48 seconds down on the Sky rider. That puts him outside the top 10. 

There is 💫some rain falling out on course but it's not too heavy at the moment. However,there are a few patches of standing water that the riders will want to avoid.

Alexis✃ Vuillermoz sets off and he is soon followed by Fabio Aru both to big cheers from the crowd. 

Aru hits the climb proper and he's looking fairly comfort💎able. He's going for it, although he may have wanted to take off those bottle cages and some suspect looking glasses. 

Contador on cꦏourse and only Porte and Poels to follow. 

Marcus Burghar♒dt puts a little invite on his numbers. 'Catch me if you can' it says. 

Mollema sprints to the line and he is 35 seconds back on Froome. He does en🎃ough for provisional 11th. 

Poels is out on course and that i🧸s all the riders departed.&ꦚnbsp;

Contador🐲 can already see Arthur Vichot up tꦗhe road at lass than halfway. That will be a carrot for the Spaniard. 

Contador sa꧑ils past Vichot and carr🅰ies on. He's determined. 

A reminder of the top 10 which hasn't cha𓂃nged in a whiܫle. 

Not a great time from Aru, he ships aꦬlmost a minute to Froome. 

In contrast, Dan Martin drives to the line to put himself into second place so far a🌜t 8 seconds behind 𓄧Froome. 

Contador looks🐬 to be on a flyer. Can he beat Froome?

Contador beats Froome's time by 12 seconds!

Porte next to finish

Porte next to finish

Porte can't beat Contador but he beats Froome and slots into second place at 5 s𒐪econds behind Contador. 

Poels slots into sixt🤪h, giving Contador the victory

This is how it finished today

Contador had this to say at the finish. 

Contador during his effort today. 

The gaps between the GC contenders aren't particularly big but the results will be a small mental boost or blow depending on how each of the riders did. Some, ꦯlike Rodriguez, will have significantly more work to do in the mountains than others. 

That is it from us today at the Criterium du Dauphine. We will have plenty reaction from the stage and come back tomorrow for live coverage of the first open road stage. You can ▨also read the report from today's stage here. 

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