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When the dust settles after the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, the fever subsides and the wounds heal, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador (Tinkoff) will find he is at an important juncture with the168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Olympic Games and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Espana, both offering him redemption opportunities after his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:second Tour de France abandonment in three years.

This time the injuries are less severe, however, the full extent of the ailments, and the needed recovery time has not yet been disclosed to the public. In hindsight, his Tour was lost as soon as his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:front wheel slipped from under him on the first stage, with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:second fall on stage 2 only compounding his health issues and knocking his confidence. He looked resigned when he sat on the tarmac in the pouring rain on the road to Cherbourg. He may have already known that his game was over.

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The broadest smile of Contador's entire Tour came at the start of stage 8, when Cyclingnews asked if would 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:sign for Trek-Segafredo on the rest day. "I don't know," plus that grin, was his response, and today's departure is highly unlikely to alter where Contador puts his signature for 2017.

The Olympics were part of Contador's pre-Tour plans, the road course is one that suits him, but it is difficult to predict whether a complete Tour or a break will play into his hands should he head to Rio. So much depends on the real extent of his injures.