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The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BMC Racing team finished on the podium of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Road World Championships team time trial championships for a fifth consecutive time but were 168澳洲5最新开奖结ꦆ果:unable to sign off with a final victory before the team becomes CCC inꦜ 2019 and many of its big-name riders move elsewhere.

Th꧙e BMC Racing riders won the world title in 2014 and 2015 and so were logically disappointed to finish third, 19 seconds slower than winners Quick-Step Floorsℱ and silver medalists Team Sunweb, who were a second faster.

Patrick Bevin, Damiano Caruso, Rohan Dennis, Stefan Küng, Greg Van Avermaet, and Tejay van Garderen were second fastest behind Mitchelton-Scott after 22.8km but slipped t♌o third fastest after the climb to Axams after 45km. They lost Kün♔g at this point after the Swiss rouleur made a huge contribution during the 40km flat roads and were unable to match Quick-Step Floors’ finishing speed.

﷽“We did everything to plan, but we just got beat by a better team on the day,” Dennis s♕aid sportingly.

"Quick-Step Floors are always good. They don't have Tony Martin anym🌊ore, but one rider doesn't win a team time trial, it’s a team event. Those guys have always been pretty solid. They are always on our radar and we did think that they were top four but in the end, we were thinking that Team Sky and Team Sunweb were the favourites to beat us."

Dennis and van Garderen regretted not pushing the pace a little higher on the climb, but the 62.4km distance forced teams to adopt a slightly cautious race strategy to avoid falling apart in the final kilometres. Each team fielded six riders, and the time was taken on the fourth rider to finish. Most teams sacrificed a rider on the climb, but f♑inishing with just four was a risk in case of punctures and crashes.

“I thought we maybe went a little conservatively on climb,” van Garderen suggested to Cyclingnews.

“We did it quicker in training, and that kind of ♛scared ev🍸erybody because we thought if we go this quick then we’d be in trouble, so we stayed on a conservative approach. But in a one-day event like this, any time you give away is time you don’t get back.”

Dennis agreed.

“Our goal was to finish with five guys at the top of the climb and to have someone to shell out and sac🤡rifice on the flat road if we really needed to. Maybe we could have gone potentially quicker on the climb and maওybe go closer to Quick-Step Floors, but you never know,” he said.

"The distance itself wasn't really an issue and the time ended up being quicker꧋ than we thought it would. It was a 50 to 54 kilometres per hour average. It was a good course and we just got beaten by a better team."

Dennis and van Garderen will ride the individual time trial for Australia and the USA, respectively, on Wednesday, but the team time trial was van Garderen’s final race in BMC Racing’s distinctive red-and-black colours after seven years with the US-registered World꧋Tour team. The American stage racer will join EF Education First-Drapac in 2019.

“It would have been nice to ওget that fairytale ending, but you know, sports sometimes don&rsﷺquo;t work out like that,” van Garderen said.

“I have fond memories of this team. Relationships over a span of years ebb and flow but they supported me really well. I’m excited to join a new team but this team has been a home for me for seven years an🉐d I’m very grateful. It’s been a good run. Third placeꦗ in a world championships, that’s a medal, that’s nothing to sneeze at.”