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Adam Yates, Simon Yates and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Esteban Chaves have all been named in a strong 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica-Scott line-up for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España, which gets underway in Nimes on Saturday.

Chaves placed third overall at last year's Vuelta, and will set out as co-leader alongside Adam Yates, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates – best young rider at last month's Tour de France – will also hav🌞e the freedom to g🎀o on the offensive in the mountains.

"We have the best general classification riders we can put together, we have all three of them here, and that is goi🍌ng to be a bit of a challenge," Orica-Scott directeur sportif Neil Stephens said. "It's an exciting challenge for us all to focus on, but at the end of the day ✅the team is our leader and all three riders have always fully committed to that."

A year ago, Orica-Scott launched a two-pronged assault on the Vuelta, with Simon Yates winning a stage an𓃲d placing sixth overa♍ll as his teammate Chaves climbed onto the podium. The team will now seek to combine the interests of three riders with genuine GC aspirations.

"We did it at th༺e Vuelta last year with Simon and Esteban and in the final the ♓race is sorted out on the road. Despite finishing with a top 10 himself, Simon was selfless in his support of our podium finish," Stephens said. "The aim is a team result in Madrid, who it is, it doesn't matter."

Chaves has endured a difficult 2017 campaign. The early part of his season was plagued by a knee injury and in July, his close friend and physiotherapist, Diana Casas, who helped him back from his horrifi𒁃c 2013 injury, was tragically killed in a road accident. Chaves placed 63rd overall in his debut Tour de France last month but struck an optimistic note in its final days. "If I'm on this level now, the only way I can go is better," the Colombian climber said.

Adam Yates lines out for the second Vuelta of his career after completing the event in his first season as a professional in 2014. The 25-year-old impressed on his Giro d'Italia debut in May, and would surely have placed higher than ninth ✃overall in Milan had he not come down in the mass crash a𒊎t the foot of the Blockhaus on stage 9.

Simon Yates was initially slated to ride t🅠he Giro alongside his brother but was held back for the Tour when it became apparent that Chaves would struggle to reach his best form in July. He proceeded to place seventh overall and emulate Adam Yates by carrying the white jersey of best young rider to Paris.

Chaves and the Yateඣs brothers will be able to rely on the talents of Sam Bewley and Svein Tuft in the Vuelta's opening team time trial in Nimes, while Jack Haig – so impressivꦯe at the Tour de Pologne – and Carlos Verona will offer support when the road climbs.

The Orica-Scott line-up is completed by Chris Juul-Jensen and Magnus Cort, who✤ won two stages at last year's Vuelta and will leave for 🦩Astana at the end of the current season.

Big-name rivals

This year's Vuelta feat🎃ures a particularly deep field, with Chris🎉 Froome (Team Sky) aiming to become only the third rider to win the Tour and the Vuelta in the same season. Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida), Fabio Aru (Astana) and Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) are among the contenders for final overall victory in Madrid.

"Looking atꦗ the qu♌ality of rivals, if we were able to repeat what we did last year and get on the podium in Madrid that would be a really fantastic result," said Stephens, who warned that the first part of the Vuelta is not bereft of difficulties.

"The race ramps up as it goes. In the first half of the Vuelta there's some surprisingly difficult stages that don't look that difficult on paper, but might catch people off guard. When we start getting towards the south of Spain theꩵre's some difficult stages and the general classification will start to really take shape. From there we go to the second time trial, which is going to be important, and we finish with a very difficult last week."

Orica-Scott for the Vuelta a España: Adam Yates (GBr), Simon Yates (GBr), Esteban Chaves (Col), Sam Bewley (NZl), Magnus Cort (Den), Jack Haig (Aus), Chris Juul-♑Jensen (Den), Svein Tuft (Can), Carlos Verona (Spa).

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