Pöstlberger: It's been a joy being in yellow for four days

Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) wearing the leader's jersey in the Criterium du Dauphiné
Lukas Pöstlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe) wearing the leader's jersey in the Criterium du Dauphiné (Image credit: Getty Images)

When he took the yellow jersey on the second stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, Lukas Pöstlberger knew that his hold on it was sure to be temporary. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider's lead came thanks to a typically powerful display of solo riding that astonished the peloton behind who were racing flat out to reel him in.

However, after negotiating stage 3's bunch sprint where Sonny Colbrelli edged to within two seconds of him, then holding off all-comers in the stage 4 time trial, his effort leaving him poleaxed just beyond the finish line and a single second clear of Alexey Lutsenko, the 29-year-old Austrian extended his stint in yellow to a fourth day when he finished in the pack right on Geraint Thomas' heels in Saint-Vallier.

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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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