Critérium du Dauphiné (2013) Photos; Stage 7: Le Pont-de-Claix → Superdévoluy, 188 km
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Scenery from the cat 3 (4 km at 5.7%) uphill finish to Superdévoluy, a ski resort). Most of the serious climbing was earlier in the stage		share this photo
French Alps		share this photo
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The Superdévoluy ski resort at the finish		share this photo
More finish line scenery		share this photo
Jakob FUGLSANG (ASTANA PRO TEAM) and Samuel SANCHEZ (EUSKALTEL EUSKADI) escaped over the cat 1 climb before the final cat 3 with about 25 seconds advantage		share this photo
1 km to go		share this photo
Joaquin RODRIGUEZ (KATUSHA) and Daniel NAVARRO (COFIDIS) attempting to bridge across		share this photo
Alberto Contador played the domestique role for Saxo-Tinkoff teammate Michael Rogers		share this photo
After looking in a world of pain on the final climb, Samuel SANCHEZ (EUSKALTEL EUSKADI) easily won the flat finish over Jakob FUGLSANG (ASTANA PRO TEAM)		share this photo
Sanchez' salute at the finish was for former teammate Euskaltel Euskadi Victor Cabedo who died last September after being struck by a vehicle during a training ride in Spain.		share this photo
Wins are always hard to come by for Euskaltel Euskadi so enjoy the moment		share this photo
Richie Porte took 3rd + 15s		share this photo
Chris Froome finished 7th + 16s		share this photo
9th Michael ROGERS (TEAM SAXO-TINKOFF) moved up to 3rd overall today		share this photo
Gruppeto scenery		share this photo
Gruppeto scenery		share this photo
Your stage 7 winner, Samuel SANCHEZ (EUSKALTEL EUSKADI)		share this photo
Just his first win of 2013		share this photo
Chris Froome has one more stage to go before we can declare him the overall winner		share this photo
Points leader Gianni Meersman (Omega Pharma-Quick Step)		share this photo
Best young rider Rohan Dennis (Garmin Sharp)		share this photo
Samuel Sanchez at the post-race press conference: "I’ve suffered a lot, especially in the last three kilometers", he said at the finish. "Fuglsang was very strong but I gave everything I had to beat him at the end. It’s going to be wonderful for Euskaltel to start the Tour de France with this prestigious victory. We had just won two races [stages at the Tour of Castilla and Leon with Pablo Urtasun and Juan José Lobato] this year but nothing in the World Tour. We didn’t get what we wanted from the Giro d’Italia, so it was good to keep going and come to here looking for something like this. Personally, I won’t race the Tour this year. I need to take a rest. It means a lot to me and the team to win at the Dauphiné. I dedicate it to my friend and team-mate Victor Cabedo who died a few months ago.”		share this photo
"This is one more day towards achieving my goal. I know it’s going to be another hard stage tomorrow, notably because we’ll ride above 2000 metres of altitude [at col de Vars] but I feel the situation is under control. It’s gonna be a tough finale tomorrow but Richie [Porte] has the legs to be there in the final climb. Hopefully we’ll finish it off. We have the two first places on GC. We can be in a very similar situation at the Tour de France too, so it’s a good exercise. It won’t be the same race though. There’ll be different teams with different objectives, like Saxo-Tinkoff was racing for third place on GC today. To have climbed l’Alpe d’Huez once was hard enough, so I can imagine what it’ll be like when we’ll do it twice on the same day at the Tour. Today was definitely a rehearsal. The downhill of col de Sarenne is tricky. It’s good to have done it."		share this photo
Later in the day, Alberto Contador was interviewed by French tv, in Spanish, and our man Colin Flockton was one of two photographers on the scene.		share this photo
Alberto Contador was tactlessly asked how many Tours he thinks he has won (he said 3). He was also asked about Chris Froome and Team Sky, about whether the Spanish riders may work together and about the most important moment in his career. It was for a brief segment to be shown on French tv at the start of this year's Tour de France.		share this photo
Critérium du Dauphiné (2013) Photos; Stage 7: Le Pont-de-Claix → Superdévoluy, 188 km
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