Jonas Vingegaard to David Gaudu: Eight riders to watch at the Critérium du Dauphiné 2023

Stacked GC field also includes Adam Yates, Richard Carapaz, Mikel Landa and Jai Hindley

Jonas Vingegaard
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The Critérium du Dauphiné gets underway this weekend and is one of the traditional warm up races for the Tour de France.

Many of the general classification favourites for the Tour will be on the start line, ready for one final opportunity to test the legs before they head to Bilbao for the Grand Départ on 1 July. After only recently winning the Giro d’Italia, reigning champion Primož Roglič will sit out the week-long stage race in south east France.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.