2019 Critérium du Dauphiné Stage 8 Results & Recap
Stage 8 of the 2019 Critérium du Dauphiné is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Dylan van Baarle (Team Ineos) won final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné after spending the day in the breakaway. The Dutch rider outsprinted Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott) on the mountain top finish in Champéry.
“The plan was for Gianni [Moscon] and myself to go in the breakaway to try to help Wout [Poels] but it ended up a little bit differently,” van Baarle said. “I’m so happy this week. It was with ups and downs. Everybody knows what happened with Chris [Froome]. The team did a really great job after that. I’m just really happy. In the past, I really struggled in this race, but I’ve trained so hard to be really good here. I’m happy this result comes out.”
Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) won his second Criterium du Dauphine after the 113 kilometre stage. Tejay van Garderen (EF Education) took second, 20 seconds behind and Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) rounded out the final podium, 21 seconds back on the Danish rider.
“I was expecting the day to be even harder than it eventually happened to be but my team controlled it in a perfect way from the beginning,” Fuglsang said. “For me, it was a jump in a blue limousine until the finish. We got a nice group sent out. I don’t know what happened to Adam Yates but it seems that he stopped for some reasons and Steven Kruijswijk got some problems. The cold yesterday has affected a few people. Compared to 2017, this victory is special because I got to ride in the yellow-blue jersey. It was maybe more spectacular two years ago when I also won two stages. This one makes me super happy also. My next race is the Tour de France. I’m looking forward to it. I think I’m on the right way. Up to now, it’s been a fantastic season for me. I hope it can get even better. Everything seems to come really easy and perfect, with no stress. The whole Astana team is riding super strong this year. Everybody is lifting everybody. There’s a good atmosphere.”
The relatively short stage saw 12 riders off the front: van Baarle (Ineos), Jack Haig (Mitchelton-Scott), Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Felix Grossschartner (Bora-Hansgrohe), Carlos Verona (Movistar), Sébastien Reichenbach (Groupama-FDJ), Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma), Julien Bernard (Trek-Segafredo), Carl Fredrik Hagen (Lotto-Soudal), Hermann Pernsteiner (Bahrain-Merida), Alessandro De Marchi (CCC) and Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic).
A few kilometres later, Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin) bridged across solo to make the breakaway 13 riders.
Already wrapped up his KOM jersey, Alaphillippe continued to score points on the classified cols while the peloton set tempo at around four minutes.
On the category 1 col du Corbier, Haig went solo, trying to get the win for recently abandoned team leader, Adam Yates. Van Baarle was the only rider to respond.
Back in the GC group, no rider challenged Fuglsang on the final ascents. The Astana rider easily crossed the line to be champion of the Dauphine in the warm up to the Tour de France. \n \n
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