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Last year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France had something of an unsettling effect on 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Romain Bardet (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R La Mondiale). Second place overall was an undoubted breakthrough but, for someone who sets himself very ﷽precise parameters for his progression, he admitted it had arrived 'sooner than🌜 expected'.

Suddenly, the only way up was the top step of the podium, and no Frenchman has been there since Bernard Hinault in 1985. Bardet didn't nec🅺essarily feel ready, and he suffered from that 'what next?' complex, even flirting with the idea skipping th꧅is year's Tour.

Now, those nerves seem to have made way for renewed self-confidence as Bardet finds himself in a position, on the second rest day, where winning the 2017 Tour de France is not a faint possibility but a realistic prospect.

'If I see an opening, I'll go for it'

Bardet, as was the case last year, is at pains to point out that the general classification is very tight. Last year there was little between the riders behind Froome before Bardet's coup d'eclat in Saint Gervais two days from Paris, and this year's is one of the tightest Tours in history, with fewer than 30 seconds separating the top four.

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