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At the top of the Stevlio with his 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia bid all but over, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ivan Basso acknowledged that his performance had fallen short his expectations. The two-time race winner sits 3:18 down on race leader Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha Team) in seventh place after two difficult stages in the mountains. With just a 30-kilometer time trial to come, Basso has little chance of moving up the overall c❀lassification.

“Today was a bad day, like yesterday and you just have t𝓰o acknowledge that it hasn’t gone the way I or my team expected,” he said at the finish of stage 20.

&l🅷dquo;On the Mortirolo I already understood that things weren’t going well and when things aren’t ꦓgoing well, you can’t do anything other than defend yourself. As you saw, I had to defend myself on the last climb. It’s one of those situations where you can’t do anything good of your own. You can only acknowledge that the others were better.”

Despite two bruising days,🌠 Basso vowed to fight until the end of the raceღ.

“The Giro finishes tomorrow. Granted, I can’t change much, but at least we’ll loo🎃k to finish the Giro as best we can. I’m still fifth on GC. This doesn’t satisfy me, but I have to accept that there were others who’ve been better than me.”

While Basso’s fate is all but sealed the race for the podium order is still wide. The Italian wouldn’t be drawn on his thoughts on who would win, instead praising those who had out-performed himཧ.

“I don’t know,🎶 I’m not very good at predictions. It’s still a very open podium,” he said.

“The only analysisཧ you can make straight after a stage like th♊at is to acknowledge the merits of those who were stronger.”