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The team time trials in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France have undergone quite an evolution over the past 100 editions. In the 1920s, the race instituted a staggered start where teams would begin stages at different times in order to force the team leaders to ride hard e🤡very day, but by 1929 these endless days of teams riding together became so boring the discipline vanished from the race, with one exception, until 1954.

The team time trials back then were very different from what♐ we see today, but a more modern version of the discipliไne emerged in the 1960s, and from 1962 until 1995, the team time trial was a part of every single edition - in 1980 and 1982 there were two!

Excitement over the years ranged from Stephen Roche famously ไmissing the start of his team's race in 1991 to David Zabriskie crashing during the test while wearing the maillot jaune with CSC in the 2005 Tour.

After the dominance of Miguel Indurain in the 1990s, the team time t💟rial was removed from the Tour from 1996 through the year 2000, when the team test from Nantes to Saint-Nazaire was won by the ONCE team, putting Laurent Jalabert in the maillot jaune, even though the team was given a 20 second penalty because directeur sportif Manolo Saiz helped block the cr♎osswind with his team car.

The discipline has been included in the Tour de France nine times since its post-Indurain renaissance, and has helped to shape the general classification. While to try and limit the time loꦺsses for the stage, the experiment was deemed a failure and reversed to the natural order of events we see today.

By keeping the team time trial to just 25km in length, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:test in Nice s🍸houldn't be too devastat𝓀ing to the smaller teams.