After only 12 minutes in the saddle in the French Alps, Alberto Contador leads Richie Porte by six seconds with Chris Froome a further seven seconds behind. As a method for ensuring that the cream would rise to the top, opening the Critérium du Dauphiné with a 3.9-kilometre uphill time-trial did the trick nicely. There are seven road stages to come but it is not inconceivable that the top ten by this time next week will feature many of the same names - not necessarily in the same order - as this afternoon. Having emerged from a training block during which he

Source: The Times June 05, 2016 15:45 UTC