Team Sky ready for Criterium du Dauphine showdown on Courchevel

Chris Froome will attempt to regain Criterium du Dauphine lead from Alberto Contador on race's final day

Vasil Kiryienka chases for Team Sky on stage four of the 2014 Criterium du Dauphine

(Image credit: Graham Watson)

Sky lost the yellow jersey when the Critérium du Dauphiné climbed the Col de la Gueulaz yesterday but can take many positives away from the day. Chris Froome still appears one of the two strongest with Tinkoff-Saxo's Alberto Contador heading towards the Tour de France and Richie Porte is back to best.

"Saxo Bank's riders took it up for a couple of K [yesterday] and blew all of their guys bar one so that lead's not going to be easy for them to defend," Porte told Cycling Weekly. "We've defended the whole week. They had a little bit of a free ride."

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Gregor Brown

Gregor Brown is an experienced cycling journalist, based in Florence, Italy. He has covered races all over the world for over a decade - following the Giro, Tour de France, and every major race since 2006. His love of cycling began with freestyle and BMX, before the 1998 Tour de France led him to a deep appreciation of the road racing season.