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A promising junior, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lilian Calmejane was quick to make his mark in the professional peloton with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Direct Energie as the 23-year-old won the best young rider classification at February's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:La Méditerranéenne on his stage race debut. Fast forward to August and and four days into Calmejane's debut grand tour, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Espana, and he was celebra🍰tion a maide🅰n victory atop San Andre de Teixido.

"I knew that on the Vuelta, unexpected things can happen. Now it's something that happens to me that I wasn't ready for," Calmejane said. "But I have had good sensations since the sta🐷rt of the season. You have to take your chances and not make a complex because you're a neo-pro. We saw last year that so♉meone like Alexis Gougeard could win in his first year as a pro. Grand Tours are races in which breakaways are more often successful than in one-day races."

On approach to the line, Calmejane started his celebration by throwing both arms in🔜 the air before pointing to the sky in remembrance of Romain Guyot, who was killed in a March training r🦄ide accident.

"The first thing I thought about was to zip up my jersey, for me and for our sponsor Direct Energie who too𓄧k over the team last year. I had a thought for Romain 🍌of course, as he was a friend of mine. I think that today he must be happy," he explained.

With the emergence of Thibaut Pꦿinot and Romain Bardet as Tour de France challengers, Calmejane was quick to explained that he doesn't see himself as a grand tour contender but added that he is still a young rider.

"I won a stage of the Vuelta on my fourth day in my first Grand Tour, but now I feel like continuing to race day by day. I have time ahead of me," he said. "I already took a lot of pleasure at the start of the season in Paris-Nice. I like🦩 time trials. I ride in all kinds of domains. I would love to discover the Ardennes ꦏclassics as they suit my profile. I don't want to set myself limits. In the team, we are lucky to have a rider like Thomas Voeckler. He's very nice to me. It's thanks to riders like him who bring you their confidence and experience that you grow up."

While excited to have taken his first win, Calmejane added that his 🅺ambitions for the Vuelta are far from over.

I didn't come for the GC. I came to go in the breaks and have fun. Now everything that comes on top of it is ex♓tra. I'm going to go on like this, in a good, friendly atmosphere. The GC, some riders are better equipped than I am," he said. 

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