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Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes : a vast game board for the new Critérium du Dauphiné

NEW NAME, NEW COLOURS

Tadej Pogacar emerged victorious from the 2025 edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné, the last before its transformation into the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. This change is the result of a long-standing collaboration between the Region and the event organiser and a logical next step in their enduring partnership....

Final winner(s)

The winner takes it all, at least according to the saying and the song. In the Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, Tadej Pogacar has emerged as a supreme ruler, already finding his way to victory on day 1 before asserting his dominance on the mountains. The world champion has dominated the explosive finale in Combloux as well as the higher summits of the race with another...

Bruno Armirail: "Not bad for a guy who weighs over 70 kilos"

"This morning I was thinking a little bit about the polka dot jersey, but Buitrago was well placed, as were Higuita and Pogacar. Every day I was able to pick up a few points, I went for it, and I guess it worked. This year, I almost won the best climber's jersey in the Volta a Catalunya. I lost it on the last day, but then I was the best climber in Itzulia and now in the Dauphiné....

Florian Lipowitz: "Now I have more confidence"

"I expected others to try something today. I didn't have the best legs and I was suffering a lot. So I’m super happy with how strong we rode as a team and that I could secure the 3rd place in the overall standings.

I would never have thought to I could compete like this in the Criterium du Dauphiné. It’s an incredible week for me and I’m delighted...

Tadej Pogacar: "We turned all the negatives into positives"

"It's been a really amazing week. Once again today, the team did a great job. We managed to defend the jersey and we can go home happy and prepare for the Tour.

There's a lot of positives from this week and we turned all the negatives into positives, so it's all good. Now we go to an altitude camp at Isola 2000. There's not much to do ahead of the Tour. I rest a...

Lenny Martinez: “I wasn't expecting much”

"Yesterday, I was really bad, and I hadn't been feeling great the days before either. So I wasn't expecting much today. But then I finally felt good at the start, so I decided to go for it. At one point, I thought Van der Poel was going to win, then I thought I was going to get caught by the Pogacar-Vingegaard duo a little later... It would have been a real shame, but it worked...

Val-Cenis crowns Martinez and Pogacar

The final mountain challenges of an exhilarating Critérium du Dauphiné 2025 saw Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) take flight to victory. The French youngster proved to be the strongest climber in a star-studded breakaway, eventually dropping Enric Mas (Movistar) with 8 kilometres to go. At 21 years old, he takes his first win in the race, ahead of Jonas Vingegaard...