Critérium du Dauphiné 2024 - Highlights of Stage 8

[Applause] every stage winner has earned the doofan leaders jersey y Primos RIT the first to win twice of the Ki delva followed by another demonstration of strength up the souren yesterday the SL van Untouchable at the moment yet that all could change at Jorgenson in second and the visma man leaning on past experience to remain positive I have my eye on Primos for sure the whole day and yeah also per I started the last day in uh in second position and yeah that finished uh differently so I'm I'm ready to give him my all and um for sure if I see an opportunity they'll take it l is in the form of his life the Belgian can live with the best on the climbs yet more than happy to be in service of enos's leader uh maybe we try to to get the Carlos on the podium uh the team is is yeah we want to have the podium that's for sure if you are five of seven in GC is not the not the goal in the beginning of the week so yeah try to move up today twice second this do Julio Chone looking for the missing ingredient to finally get himself on the top run R for the moment is really it's really really good so it's really hard to beat him but for sure we we're going to try today is a bit different the final so maybe we have more chance but we need to see we need to see the climb before and uh we also expect some rain uh after 1:00 so I think we'll be really a ni stage it's not been a week for the Breakaway gon Maran hoping to Buck the trend especially as he celebrates his 31st birthday a tough start and an even harder finish if the Breakaway fail to build a meaningful Gap the race will open up for the GC in the second half the climb to the plateau deer should produce an explosive finale RIT lost the doofan title before the final stage in 2020 the sloven will want to avoid a repeat a breakaway of 10 skipped ahead of the pelaton up the C de de a large cast of players hoping for a big break birthday boy Maran alongside compatriots godu Amaray and prom while Solair Vin and supera hoping for better than the previous day's attempt Lorenzo Fortunato started the day in rit's polka dot JY Jersey the Italian had collected 12 points to be the virtual King of the mountain but he surprisingly fell back suddenly the inos pace peleton in sight Mark Solair could almost taste a first win in two years yesterday the Catalan going again and the first over the summit at lalev just two points now off Fortunato the Italian hoping that neither Solair nor RIT would win the stage with 50 km to go fortunat attempted and failed to cross back to the break the Gap manageable with the GC Riders looking for a stage win inos hoping to place Carlos Rodriguez there as well as on the overall Podium however the pause button was pressed in the pelaton pursuit a comfort break for Rodriguez saw in your situp rogl as well needing to reconnect as the Gap grew to over 2 minutes therefore Leal TR sent Chone liutenant forward Mass pson taking charge destroying the lead built up eventually crashing down to just 58 seconds the escape's Fate sealed Pon taking a well earned break visma benut striding forward as they almost had the head of the race in sight American champion Shan Quinn reacted followed by Matan with 9 km from the summit then the first major attack as the race came to life Chone not only catching the escapades the Italian quickly going solo 15 seconds over the GC group trying to cool down the gradient too hot for godu d with plenty in the tank as his Pace shed those who couldn't keep up Chone with company in his rear view mirror Remco evole unable to match the output after his past workload vlasov dropped out and with rogl isolated his Rivals L to profit GE son Derek G and Rodriguez digging deep to create a Chasm RIT without support choosing to stick with Chone with time in hand but suddenly the title was in play Jorgenson needed a swing of around a minute Depending on time bonuses rogl still on course for the title but no longer a done deal pure drama on the final Ascent there G looks to have announced himself this week but the Canadian cracked that left a clean fight between vizar and inos the stage of potentially the title up for grabs as they hurtled towards the Finish who's going to win the stage Jorgenson has to because in order to win this Doan he needs every second that's possible but on the line it's going to be Rodriguez who wins the stage but now it's the fight for time working this out this Rider needs to get here in 56 seconds if he does get within 56 seconds rogl will win the Doan it's going to be so so close we're coming up to 40 now 40 seconds 41 is he going to do it RIT is he going to win this Doan he's going to do it just in a matter of seconds 7 seconds I make it Carlos Rodriguez timing his Ascent to Perfection a third win of the Season at the Spaniard beat Jorgenson to the line the 23-year-old looking strong ahead of the to Def France and a big thanks to dplo and his team for setting the scene after crashing out in yellow in 2020 no such heartbreak this time for rogich who survived a late crisis to hold on to the title by a whisker in a thrilling climax wow what a finish uh I mean I suppose you were not maybe not expecting it to be so tight uh yeah not really I mean uh looking to myself quite crazy actually to to be able to to win do uh with the yeah the things that everything happen in between so beautiful [Music] after a stage win on the tour of the bass country and overall at the tour of romand D Rodriguez Top Dog on the final day of the week teammate Depo fourth with Bin's Pago fifth rit's second doofan Title by just 8 seconds last year yonis vinegar did the doofan and t double rogl dreams of doing likewise the 34-year-old also claiming the green Jersey that despite the pressure from Jorgenson and Chone yet the sloven couldn't hold on to the poka dos fortunately for chato's early graph paying off his first jersey of 2024 Janson missing out on yellow but dominant in white the American ending a tough week for Vima on a high a dramatic doof finale a perfect two def tuneup and now just 3 weeks until the pelaton line up in Florence for the Grande par