Greg Van Avermaetmade his debut in theUnbound Gravel 200on Saturday, racing to seventh place, 4:47 behind winner Lachlan Morton (former pro with EF Education-EasyPost). The retired WorldTour road star had mixed feelings after making the lead group only to puncture and have to chase back on twice....

A hard day in the Haute Loire with a tiring uphill finish.Embed from Getty ImagesGreat Dane II: the days breakaway had some strong riders and none more so than Bruno Armirail who was caught almost within sight of the finish line except that it was so foggy that he probably could not see the finish. Hed jumped away on the final climb and provided a nailbiter of a finish.With the peloton reduced to about 50 riders by the climbing Magnus Cort took a flyer with 200m to go to take the stage and with it the first World Tour level win for the Uno-X team. Primo Rogli finished second to collect the six second time bonus, he didnt quite finish the job for his team who had been chasing earlier and Aleksandr Vlasov made a move on the climb before but theyll take the result and aim for more today.The Route: 181km and almost 3,000m of vertical gain. A small uphill start might help a breakaway go clear. Then its over to Arlanc and the climb to Saint-Victor-sur Arlanc which featured in the 2019 edition where the race split to pieces but this was with 20km to go. Here mid-stage its just a tricky climb.The Finish: a big ring drag to the line in the shadow of Mont dAlambre, an extinct volcano cone. Its 4km at 5%.The Contenders: the same again? Magnus Cort (Uno-X) has a good chance but the continued uphill run to the line means advantage Primo Rogli (Bora-hansgrohe).The breakaway has a chance today too even if Uno-X will ride hard to give Cort another shot and defend yellow. Half the field is already five minutes or more down on GC. Semi-random picks are Koen Bouwman and Bart Lemmen (Visma-LAB), Kevin Geniets (Groupama-FDJ) or Davide De Pretto (Jayco).Rogli, CortWeather: cloudy but warmer, 23C.TV: KM0 is at 12.25pm and the last 90 minutes should be live with the finish forecast for 4.55pm CEST.Postcard from OllierguesTodays course is a palimpsest, drawn over so many previous routes, whether the Dauphin, Paris-Nice, the Tour de France or many other amateur events. With 150km to go today the route passes the small town of Olliergues population 743 and famous for the Tour de la Communaut de Communes du Pays dOlliergues. The pleonasmic title doesnt trip off the tongue but recent winners like Valentin Paret-Peintre and Alex Baudin might be more familiar.The latest winner is Paul Seixas, the 17 year old who is hoovering up U-19 junior races in France and beyond and tipped as the next big thing in French cycling or even cycling. Hes already won national titles for road racing, cyclo-cross and time trialling which suggests range to put it mildly. In recent days hes won the international-level Tour du Pays de Vaud stage race and the Classique des Alpes one day race. Seixas beat Spaniard Adri Pericas who is set to join UAEs Gen Z feeder team in both competitions. Notably he won the Classique des Alpes solo by over four minutes. Seixas is from nearby Lyon and rides for the Decathlon junior team where hes alongside the likes of Aubin Sparfel, another name tipped for the top. So if today you dont remember Olliergues, keep an eye on Seixas and Sparfel in the years to come.The post Critrium du Dauphin Stage 3 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring.

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