In a truly thrilling finale the Maillot Jaune was up for grabs until the very final pedal strokes of the last climb at the 2024 Criterium du Dauphine. In the end, Primoz Roglic managed to just about hold on to the win ahead of an incredibly impressive Matteo Jorgenson.
With just over 5km to go, Carlos Rodriguez made an attack. Jorgenson was straight on the back wheel, as was Derek Gee and Santiago Buitrago. Notably though, Roglic was in trouble. Noticing the situation, Jorgenson, who started the day second at 1:02 took to the front of the leaders group and started to push on and when the Team Visma | Lease a Bike leader launched his final brutal acceleration, only Rodriguez could follow the American. In the end, it was Rodriguez who took the stage, and the experience of Roglic proved key as he limited losses to survive a real scare with his Maillot Jaune in tact.
What that means for the final classification, is that Primoz Roglic takes the overall win by just 8 seconds from Jorgenson, with Gee completing the podium in third at 36 seconds. Carlos Rodriguez moves up to 4th with his stage win with INEOS Grenadiers teammate Laurens De Plus rising to 5th.
Aleksandr Vlasov wasn't at his best on the final stage, but did enough to keep his high GC standing in 6th. With Remco Evenepoel (7th), Oier Lazkano (8th), Giulio Ciccone (9th) and Mikel Landa (10th) completing the top-10.
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2024 Criterium du Dauphine final GC standings:
| 1 | ROGLIC Primoz | BORA-hansgrohe | 500 | 25:35:40 |
| 2 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 400 | + 08 |
| 3 | GEE Derek | Israel-Premier Tech | 325 | + 36 |
| 4 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | 275 | + 01:00 |
| 5 | DE PLUS Laurens | INEOS Grenadiers | 225 | + 02:04 |
| 6 | VLASOV Aleksandr | BORA-hansgrohe | 175 | + 02:06 |
| 7 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | 150 | + 02:25 |
| 8 | LAZKANO Oier | Movistar Team | 125 | + 02:54 |
| 9 | CICCONE Giulio | Lidl-Trek | 100 | + 02:54 |
| 10 | LANDA Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | 85 | + 04:13 |
| 11 | BUITRAGO Santiago | Bahrain Victorious | 70 | + 04:28 |
| 12 | ROMO Javier | Movistar Team | 60 | + 05:53 |
| 13 | SCOTSON Callum | Team Jayco-AlUla | 50 | + 06:04 |
| 14 | MEINTJES Louis | Intermarché-Wanty | 40 | + 06:57 |
| 15 | GAUDU David | Groupama-FDJ | 35 | + 11:10 |
| 16 | HAIG Jack | Bahrain Victorious | 30 | + 12:12 |
| 17 | SOLER Marc | UAE Team Emirates | 30 | + 12:47 |
| 18 | SEPULVEDA Eduardo | Lotto Dstny | 30 | + 13:36 |
| 19 | MARTIN Guillaume | Cofidis | 30 | + 14:32 |
| 20 | HINDLEY Jai | BORA-hansgrohe | 30 | + 16:29 |
| 21 | TEUNS Dylan | Israel-Premier Tech | 20 | + 17:18 |
| 22 | BARGUIL Warren | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 20 | + 17:33 |
| 23 | HAGEN Carl Fredrik | Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team | 20 | + 20:05 |
| 24 | FUGLSANG Jakob | Israel-Premier Tech | 20 | + 20:45 |
| 25 | NEILANDS Krists | Israel-Premier Tech | 20 | + 23:10 |
| 26 | SIVAKOV Pavel | UAE Team Emirates | 20 | + 25:51 |
| 27 | GRÉGOIRE Romain | Groupama-FDJ | 20 | + 28:43 |
| 28 | PRODHOMME Nicolas | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 20 | + 29:40 |
| 29 | ARMIRAIL Bruno | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 20 | + 33:10 |
| 30 | LEMMEN Bart | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 20 | + 35:25 |
| 31 | KWIATKOWSKI Michal | INEOS Grenadiers | 10 | + 37:09 |
| 32 | BENOOT Tiesj | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 10 | + 37:46 |
| 33 | BOUWMAN Koen | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 10 | + 40:54 |
| 34 | ARRIETA Igor | UAE Team Emirates | 10 | + 45:15 |
| 35 | SOBRERO Matteo | BORA-hansgrohe | 10 | + 45:27 |
| 36 | QUINN Sean | EF Education-EasyPost | 10 | + 45:33 |
| 37 | JUNGELS Bob | BORA-hansgrohe | 10 | + 47:22 |
| 38 | VERONA Carlos | Lidl-Trek | 10 | + 48:37 |
| 39 | FRAILE Omar | INEOS Grenadiers | 10 | + 50:13 |
| 40 | GENIETS Kevin | Groupama-FDJ | 10 | + 50:29 |
| 41 | WELLENS Tim | UAE Team Emirates | 10 | + 51:11 |
| 42 | TARLING Joshua | INEOS Grenadiers | 10 | + 52:50 |
| 43 | MEURISSE Xandro | Alpecin-Deceuninck | 10 | + 53:44 |
| 44 | POLITT Nils | UAE Team Emirates | 10 | + 54:42 |
| 45 | ZIMMERMANN Georg | Intermarché-Wanty | 10 | + 56:05 |
| 46 | HOELGAARD Markus | Uno-X Mobility | 10 | + 57:37 |
| 47 | GODON Dorian | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | 10 | + 01:00:25 |
| 48 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | INEOS Grenadiers | 10 | + 01:01:21 |
| 49 | LASTRA Jonathan | Cofidis | 10 | + 01:02:51 |
| 50 | PEDERSEN Mads | Lidl-Trek | 10 | + 01:12:34 |
| 51 | HOULE Hugo | Israel-Premier Tech | 5 | + 01:14:18 |
| 52 | PAASSCHENS Mathijs | Lotto Dstny | 5 | + 01:23:01 |
| 53 | PEDERSEN Casper | Soudal Quick-Step | 5 | + 01:31:15 |
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