Australian cyclist Ben O'Connor tunes up for the world's biggest race, the Tour de France, finishing on the podium at the Criterium du Dauphine event.
Australian Ben O'Connor has demonstrated his readiness for another big Tour de France by earning the first overall World Tour podium spot of his burgeoning career at the Criterium du Dauphine.2 - Jonas Vingegaard : + 40 seconds6 - Louis Meintjes : +3:17
Yet while O'Connor's performance in the week-long race was highly encouraging with the grand tour less than three weeks away, he was still no match for race winner Primoz Roglic and the Slovenian's Jumbo-Visma teammate, runner-up Jonas Vingegaard. But he again could not quite match Roglic, one of the Tour favourites, and his powerful Danish right-hand man Vingegaard, who powered away from the rest of the field on the final climb.
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