The Critérium du Dauphiné Just Keeps Getting Weirder

Thomas shows signs of life while ISN faces a difficult decision with Froome

Traditionally, the Critérium du Dauphiné has served as a fairly formulaic test-run for the Sky/Ineos grand tour machine to tune up its Tour de France-destroying mountain train before the French grand tour.

But, in more recent years, it, just like the rest of the sport, has seemed to get crazier and crazier and consistently serve up off-the-wall and fran…