Roglic wins stage to add to Criterium du Dauphine lead

Primoz Roglic made it back-to-back wins connected shape 7 of nan Criterium du Dauphine to summation his wide lead heading into nan last stage.

The Bora–Hansgrohe rider took nan yellowish jersey from Remco Evenepoel connected Friday and is now 62 seconds clear aft winning nan acme decorativeness astatine Samoens 1600.

Both were progressive successful nan large clang that led to shape 5 being neutralised connected Thursday, but Evenepoel appears to person travel disconnected worst.

The Soudal Quick-Step rider again struggled connected nan queen shape of this year's race, losing astir 2 minutes to Roglic, and nan 24-year-old Belgian slipped to sixth successful nan wide classification standings.

Slovenian Roglic, 34, crossed nan statement earlier America's Matteo Jorgenson, who has moved into 2nd spot overall, pinch Canada's Derek Gee going 3rd successful nan GC.

Saturday's 155.3km way from Albertville featured 3 class 1 climbs earlier finishing pinch a 10km climb that had an mean gradient of 9.3%.

Marc Soler started nan time astir 4 minutes disconnected Roglic and collapsed distant to lead nan peloton by much than 5 minutes astatine 1 point.

The Spaniard was still starring when, 3km into nan last climb, Evenepoel was dropped aft nan steepest conception of 12.3%.

Soler was past caught 2km from nan decorativeness and though Oier Lazkano deed nan beforehand arsenic nan statement approached, Roglic timed his onslaught perfectly to transverse first pinch Jorgenson successful basking pursuit.

Lidl-Trek's Tao Geoghegan Hart was 1 of respective riders to retreat either earlier aliases during Saturday's shape - nan British rider still suffering pinch his injuries from Thursday's crash.