Kelderman: We'll have to follow Ineos and Movistar at Dauphiné

Ineos Grenadiers at the Criterium du Dauphine
Ineos Grenadiers at the Criterium du Dauphine (Image credit: Getty Images)

Based on the finale of the Critérium du Dauphiné's first big mountain stage to Le Sappey-en-Chartreuse, Ineos Grenadiers and Movistar are the strongest teams in the race, and the feeling among their rivals is that they will have to follow these two outfits and hope that an opportunity or an unexpected weakness presents itself if they are to beat them come Sunday afternoon

"Movistar and Ineos are really strong teams in general, so I think they will make the race the next few days," said Bora-Hansgrohe's Wilco Kelderman. "For us, it's just a case of following. We've got a strong line-up here for the flat part of the race, but on the hills, we're missing a few guys."

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Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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