Derek Gee (Israel-Premier Tech) powered to his first-ever skilled victory on the uphill end at Les Estables on stage three of the Critérium du Dauphiné. The Canadian’s stage win additionally noticed him take over the general race lead from Magnus Cort of Uno-X Mobility.
After his teammate Krists Neilands attacked underneath the kilometre to go banner, Gee adopted an acceleration from Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) earlier than passing the Frenchman to take the win.
A 3 man breakaway had been up forward for a lot of the day and managed to carry their lead till the ultimate climb to the end. Neilands intelligent early transfer caught the likes of Primož Roglič and the opposite race favourites unawares, which means that Gee had a teammate to purpose for as he adopted the assault from Grégoire.
“That is on a unique degree,” Gee mentioned put up race. “It’s unbelievably particular to win right here. I’d been ready for a win in Europe, I’d come second sufficient occasions now so it was good to complete this off.
“An enormous a part of it was Krists attacking with a kilometre to go. I used to be in place and he simply strung it out. I wasn’t planning on going there however when Krists got here again I needed to benefit from it. We had been going for Dylan [Teuns] a lot of the day…. He made the decision on the ultimate climb and instructed us to go for it. We took it up and I’m completely happy to come back away with it.
“That’s fairly particular,” he added when requested the way it felt to take the yellow jersey. “That’s going to be fairly a sense I believe.”
The way it occurred
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At first of the day many predicted that the third stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné would offer loads of motion within the common classification. The parcours on supply was undoubtedly one tailor made for puncheurs within the mould of Bora-Hansgrohe’s Primož Roglič.
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After simply 35 kilometres of racing, Roglič hit the deck in a small crash and wanted a motorbike change. The Slovenian was left with a torn race quantity, however there have been no seen indicators of any accidents sustained within the fall. A number of of his Bora-Hansgrohe teammates shortly paced Roglič again into the primary area.
As soon as the racing actually acquired going, a three-man transfer quickly acquired up the street and established a small hole of simply over a minute. Harry Sweeny (EF Training-EasyPost), Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and Rémy Rochas (Groupama-FDJ) had been largely saved in verify by the Uno-X and Ineos Grenadiers led peloton. The group’s hole hardly ever ticked over the 2 minute margin as they took on every of the 5 categorised climbs on supply.
With 32 kilometres left to race, Jayco-AIUla’s Christopher Juul Jensen attacked from the peloton and managed to bridge throughout to the leaders. Groupama-FDJ’s Valentin Madouas tried to observe however was unable to make his counter transfer stick. Rochas dropped away from the break because the riders hurtled in direction of the ultimate kick to the end.
Juul Jensen, Prodhomme and Sweeny had 48 seconds on the peloton with 14 kilometres left to race. Nils Politt (UAE Staff Emirates) and Josh Tarling (Ineos Grenadiers) put the hammer down on the entrance of the primary area which ensured that the trio’s benefit continued to quickly tumble.
With just below three kilometres remaining the lead trio had been swept up by the peloton. Ineos Grenadiers had been outstanding on the entrance of the group seeking to arrange Carlos Rodríguez.
Because the riders sailed underneath the kilometre to go marker, Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech) was the primary rider to leap which ignited the motion because the end line appeared. Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) attacked with Neilands teammate Derek Gee on his wheel.
The duo handed Neilands with ease earlier than Gee opened up his dash to take his first ever victory.
Outcomes
Critérium du Dauphiné 2024, stage three: Celles sur Durolle > Les Estables (181km)
1. Derek Gee (Can) Israel-Premier Tech, in 04:22:18
2. Romain Grégoire (Fra) Groupama-FDJ, at identical time
3. Lukas Nerurkar (Gbr) EF Training-EasyPost, +3s
4. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek,
5. Harold Tejada (Col) Astana Qazaqstan,
6. Santiago Buitrago (Col) Bahrain Victorious,
7. Aleksandr Vlasov Bora-Hansgrohe,
8. Clement Champoussin (Fra) Arkea- B&B Accommodations,
9. Matteo Jorgenson (Usa) Visma-Lease a Bike,
10. Primož Roglič (Slo) Bora-Hansgrohe, all at identical time
Common classification after stage three
1. Derek Gee (Can) Israel-Premier Tech), in 11:45:20
2. Magnus Cort (Den) Uno-X Mobility, +3s
3. Romain Grégoire (Fra) Groupama-FDJ, +4s
4. Primož Roglič (Slo) Bora-Hansgrohe, +7s
5. Matteo Jorgenson (Usa) Visma-Lease a Bike, +9s
6. Lukas Nerukar (Gbr) EF Training-EasyPost, +9s
7. Bruno Armirail (Fra) Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, +11s
8. Clement Champoussin (Fra) Arkea-B & B Accommodations, +13s
9. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek,
10. Carlos Rodríguez (Spa) Ineos Grenadiers, at identical time
