Chaves and Simon Yates form two-pronged Mitchelton-Scott approach at Giro d'Italia

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Magli൲a rosa Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEdge) waves to the crowd at the start of stage 2♚0 Giro d'Italia

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Chaves and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates will form a two-pronged approach at the upcoming 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia, with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mitchelton-Scott naming what it de💦scribes as "one of the strongest line-ups possible" to support their two leaders.

Chaves finished runner-up at the Giro in 2016, losing the pink jersey to Vincenzo Nibali on the penultimate day, and he went on to finish on the podium of the Vuelta a España and then win Il Lombardia later that year. Things didn't go so smoothly last year as injury and persoไnal problems derailed his Tour de France debut, but the Colombian is confident he can return to Grand Tou🉐r contention.

"I'm really happy to be going back to Italy. When I became professional, I lived in Italy and it has been the place for my toughest moments, but also the most beautiful moments of my career," said Chaves, who suffered a career-threatening crash at the 2013 Trofeo Laigueglia. "Like alway☂s, the Giro will be hard but I have been in Colombia training in the last few w🌄eeks and the preparation has gone well so we can hope we can find similar form to 2016."

Chaves and Simon Yates have raced alongside each oth🐽er at last year's Tour de France and in the past two editions of the Vuelta a España, the 2016 edition in particular serving as proof of their ability to dovetail their efforts. Chaves was fifth overall when Yates reached out for a stage 6 win that moved him into the top 10, and later in the race the team were tactically adventurous in sending Yates up the road on stage 14, with the Briton linking up with teammates who'd been placed in the break before taking on the Col d'Aubisque to leap from seventh to fourth overall. At the end of the race Chaves finished second and Yates sixth.

"We are making no secret tha🌸t our focus for the Giro d'Italia is on the general classification and Simon Yates and Esteban Chaves are our leaders. They have worked really well in the past in these roles and we're expecting the same again," said directeur sportif, Matt White. "We are not the favourites, but we have two guys who are going to challenge the favourites whenever the opportunity arises."

Nieve has hardly raced this year - his first with the te👍am after moving from Team Sky - due to a hip fracture but is currently at the Tour de Romandie getting himself into shape. If fully fit, the Spaniard will be vitally important in the high mountains, having been a key part of Chris Froome's victories in the 2016 and 2017 Tours de France and the 2017 Vuelta a España. Kreuziger goes into his 16th Grand Tour on the back of a fine Ardennes Classi൲cs period - 2nd at Amstel, 4th at Flèche, and 8th at Liège - while 24-year-old Haig starts his third Grand Tour and first Giro after also impressing in the Ardennes.

"On paper we have a really good team, everyone is arriving into the shape they need to be in at the right time," said White. "It's quite an interesting course because although the first indication of the overall will come early 💎on stage six on Mt Etna, besides the last week with stages 18-20, there is not more than two days in a row of 'effort' for the general classification riders. It's sporadic and this will make for aggressive racing throughout."