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Young Australian rider Rohan Dennis will begin Stage 5 of the 2013 Criterium du Dauphine in yellow after last night’ second-placed finish. We’ll have live updates from 9.00pm AEST.
Last saw night saw Tony Martin blitz the field in ITT but it was the performance of young Dennis that would have turned Australian heads.
The Garmin-Sharp neo-pro is in the leader’s jersey after he came finished second on the stage, emulating Luke Durbridge who pulled on the yellow fleece during last year’s edition.
Dennis could lose his lead tonight with the first summit finish of the Dauphiné this year.
Team Sky’s Chris Froome is sitting just five seconds back so it will take a mighty effort by the Garmin team to reel in Froome if he skips away.
Dennis may shift his focus to the white jersey classification and let Team Sky worry about keeping Froome safe in the lead.
One casualty from the ITT was Alberto Contador, who was passed by Richie Porte and ended the day way down in 61st position.
As he now sits 34th in the general classification, El Pistolero may be given the chance to go for a stage victory but his hopes of the overall are dashed.
Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim Rodriguez, as expected, also finished some way off the pace so they could be eyeing off the stage as a chance to recoup some of that lost time.
The stage is rather short at 139km but it’s the final climb of 12.7kms where the action will happen.
The climb to the ski resort of Valmoral has an average gradient of 7 percent but there is a slight respite with a plateau of sorts before a final kilometre at 6.5 percent.
A break looks likely but with some of the pre-race favourites not quite where they want to be, perhaps the Spanish triumvirate could replicate their attacks on Froome at the Vuelta a España and put his time under some real pressure.
Join us from 9.00pm AEST as we bring you all the fireworks and panache from Stage 5 of the Critérium du Dauphiné.
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