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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Bennett's anger at mistiming his final effort on the climb to Sarnano Sassotetto 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:during stage 4 was only tempered by discovering he had moved up to seventh overall at and understanding he now has a real chancing of finishing in the top after🐷 Tuesday's final 10km💮 time trial.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:LottoNL-Jumbo rider finished third behind winner Mikel Landa (Movistar) and runner-up Rafal Majka (Bora-Hansgrohe) after surging across to them in the final 1.5km of the 14.5km climb to the finish. Bennett showed he was arg🃏uably the strongest by attacking several times. He was the only rider who made it across to the Landa attack but then paid for his effort and was unable to beat the Spaniard on the slightly downhill swooping curve to the line.

"I felt really good but just cocked it up," Bennett told Cyclingnews as soon as he had crossed the l💧ine, admitting his mistakes.

"The worst thing is that I knew the climb; I came to look at it," he revealed. "I don't know why but I had it a little different in my head. If I could do it all again, that last kilometre, I'd go all out to the top o𒁏f that little pinch. I thought I needed a bit for the finish but once we were over the hill, we were all out to the finish line."

The finale of the stage was hectic, leaving even Bennett confused. When Landa attacked to go across to Aru, Majka and Ben H🧜ermans (Israel Cycling Academy), Froome was dropped. Then when Bennett made his series of attacks, Thomas was slowed by a blocked chain, shaking up the stage and the overall classification. Bennett was racing hard up front and focused on his own performance.

"Team Sky were really running out of po🙈wer and you could feel that, so there was a danger the front group wouldn't come back. I had one more attack in me and it was🐻 a shame it didn't work out for me," he said.

"I was thinking it was going to go away, but I had a plan to stick with the best guys. I felt pretty good and when it was time to go I went, once with Bardet and again when there as a pause, because I felt good𝓀."

Back in the GC podium hunt

Bennett finished six seconds ahead of some of his big-name stage race rivals, with Thomas los♛ing 40 seconds and Froome even more. Bennett is now seventh overall, 33 seconds down on new leader Damiano Caruso (BMC Racing). He is only 22 seconds down on a podium place, with Sunday's tough stage to Filottrano a𓄧nd then Tuesday's 10km individual time trial.

Because Bennett was chasing the stage victory, he had no idea what was happening behind him. He did not know he w🥀as back in the fight for the GC podium until he talked to a reporter.

"What happened to Thom𒉰as?" he said, struggling to comprehend how he was back i♒n the overall classification.

"Oh S🦩hit! Well, that's good, at least for✨ me," he replied when told.

"I came her to work for Roglic and wasn't thinking of the GC. Then when he crash🌺ed the team said I could try for GC. Now I just want to have a good time trial. The team has helped me with the time trial stuff. I still want to make some fine tweaks, but they w🧜orked so hard. Ten kilometres is not my thing, but it's a good test for prologue."

Bennett has only just arrived back in E✅urope and plans one f🌃inal block of altitude training to prepare for the Giro d'Italia.

"I was in New Zealand training and only landed in Europe two d🔥ays before Strade Bianche. It was a bit of a shock to the system, ripping around Strade Bianche at 5C instead of 25C," he said.

"But I'm happy♔, the big goal is the Giro. I've got Catalunya next and then✤ an altitude camp. It's nice to have something to stick to before the Giro."

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