Hamburg – Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard chase each other across the French Alpine giants, the summer sun burns relentlessly on the asphalt and thousands of fans whip their idols forward. It is more than just a touch of Tour de France in the air, even if the most important bike race in the world only starts in July. At the Critérium du Dauphiné, the first hot dance of the top stars is coming up this year.