A late rainfall hampered defending 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Romandie champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans's performance in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:opening prologue in Lausanne today. The BMC rider was the last off in the 3.34km test, but 𝐆he fell far short of the time of winner Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), who posted a 3:29.43. Evans was 19 seconds down, good only for 80th place.
While the earlier starters including Thomas enjoyed dry roads, rain began to fall in the final 40 minutes of the prologue, impacting last year's stage winner Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar) and overall contenders such as Bradley Wiggins (Sky). But via Twitter, Evans seemed to think he had been a bit too cautions in the slick♛ conditions. "'Don't take any risks' they all said...'Did I make🅰 the time cut?'(!)," he wrote.
With his recent illness, Evans later said he wasn't expe💝cting to be in the hunt for a prime per💮formance today.
"I don't think with my condition I wouldn't hꦜave been close to the specialists today, so the rain slowed me down even more," Evans said in a team press release. "But it wasn't my co𝓰urse or my distance. I hope the weather turns a bit better because I've been sick and so on."
"I hope to get some racing in my legs and with a couple days racing, I think I can get a bit better. Then we can see what we can do a little bit later i🃏n the week."
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