Pogacar conquered the Dauphiné for the first time and points to the Tour de France 2025 | News today

The Slovenian won with authority in the mountain in front of his main rival, Jonas Vingegaard, and was crowned champion of the 77th edition of the Daashiné criterium.

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Notice to the rivals: Tadej Pogacar is in full way three weeks after starting the defense of the crown in the Tour of France, as demonstrated this Sunday by winning for the first time the prestigious criterium of the Dauphiné.

The 8th and final stage played this Sunday was won alone by the Frenchman Lenny Martinez, in the Mont-Cenis Plateau and despite the fact that his rivals attack him again in the final climb, Pogacar did not see the yellow jersey at any time.

Winner of three stages and the general classification, the Slovenian cyclist, who returned to the competition after flying over the rank classics, has been imposed with almost a three -week race.

To name only some of the rivals called to fight the podium in the Tour, (July 5 to 27), Pogacar took 59 seconds to the Danish Jonas Vingegaard (2nd), 4:41 about the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (4th) or 8:57 about the Spanish Carlos Rodríguez (9th).

The podium was completed by the young German Florian Lipowitz, at 2:38 from Pogacar.

“A beautiful week. We can go happy to prepare the tour,” said a Pogacar who has offered an image of superiority that in some moments brushes insolence.

Not even Vingegaard, winner of the Tour in 2022 and 2023, was able to rival Pogacar and ended up distanced in the stages of Friday and Saturday, the most complicated by the tour.

“Tadej has been the strongest, you have to recognize it. My data has been good and I hope they are even better on the tour,” explained the Danish.

“The form is very good. We will see if you can improve a bit,” added a Pogacar that in the face of the great Boucle must recover two of his best lieutenants in the mountain, the Portuguese Joao Almeida and the British Adam Yates.

Martínez takes the last stage

The last stage was for Martinez. The French cyclist, who ended more than 35 minutes from the head in the queen stage of Saturday, got into the escape of the day and was the only corridor that resisted the attack of Spanish Enric more nine kilometers from the arrival, in the climb to the Col du Mont-Cenis.

The 21 -year -old climber left the Spanish one kilometer later and did not let the stage victory escape, although from behind Evenepoel, first, and Vingegaard, later, attacked Pogacar with the aim of trying their strength.

Vingegaard and Pogacar crossed the banner 34 seconds from the winner and American Matteo Jorgenson and Evenepoel did it six seconds later.

This stage was the end point to the career of the veteran French cyclist Romain Bardet, 34, who announced that he would hang the bicycle at the end of the Dauphiné to become a television commentator.

Bardet says goodbye to the squad

Before the last stage, the other cyclists made a hall of honor, with their standing bicycles on the rear wheel, for Bardet, one of the best French cyclists of their generation, with two podiums in the Tour de France (2nd in 2016 and 3rd in 2017).

“You don't realize how time passes; the platoon is getting younger, but I always felt comfortable with them. I marked without any bitterness,” said the cyclist, accompanied at this emotional moment by his son Angus.