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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish will start at the inaugural Adriatica Ionica ꦯRace in Italy on Wednesday, where a stage win or two would give him a confidence boost before he heads tꦿo the Tour de France.

Cavendish has won just one race so far this year – 168澳洲5最新开奖结🅠果:a stage at the Dubai Tour in February – in a season that was blighted by crashes early on. The British sprinter rode the Tour of Slovenia rather than the more traditional route of riding either the Critérium du Dauphiné or the Tour de Suisse in the buil🎃d-up to the Tour, and now heads to the Adriatica Ionica before racing at the British road race national championships 🧸the weekend.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dimension Data have yet to reveal their eight-man roster for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, which starts in Noirmoutier-en-l'Ile on July 7, but in addition to Cavendish, Australian 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Renshaw is a pretty safe bet for a berth, and will lineꦛ up alongside his team leader at the Adriatica Ionica to fine-tune his lead-out man duties with just over a couple of weeks to go until the start of the Tour.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The new five-day UCI 2.1-ranked race takes place in Italy's Veneto region, starting on W🃏ednesday in ꦑSan Donà di Piave with a 23.3km team time trial.

Stage 3 on Friday should be the highlight of the new race, when riders face a s෴ummit finish on the Passo Giau. The race then concludes in Trieste on Sunday with another gently undulating stage that could see the sprinters' teams line up one of their own as a possible winner, in addition to opportunities on stages 2 and 4.

"It is always nice to start the first edition of a race and in a region that doesn't see all that much top-level racing," said Dimension Data directeur sportif Jean-Pierre Heynderickx. "All org✨anisers like to offer up something special or unique to their event, so we look forward to this from the Adriatica Ionica Race.

"For us, we don't have a rider for the Passo Giau stage, and therefore the GC," he continued, although South African 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nic Dlamini may have somet𓆏hing to say about that, "but our focus is to give 🍷Mark and the team the opportunity to complete the final preparations ahead of the Tour."

Dimension Data for the 2018 Adriatica Ionica Race: Mark Cavendish, Nic ꧃Dlamini﷽, Ryan Gibbons, Reinardt Janse van Rensburg, Mark Renshaw, Jay Thomson