Dauphiné Libéré stage 1 wrap: Wegmann snatches chance, foils sprinters

Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner)

Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner) (Image credit: Luc Claessen)

The first road stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré was supposed to be one for the sprinters, a rare opportunity in a race that gets its shape from the hilly terrain of the foothills of the Alps. But someone forgot to have Gerolsteiner's Fabian Wegmann read the script, and the German took the stage win after a perfectly-timed four-man escape shed the peloton 14km from the line.

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