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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador entered the most recent round of the WorldTour at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of the Basque Country with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning ambitions but after six days of racing and more than 800km covered, much of it in trying conditions, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Saxo-Tinkoff leader has placed a question mark over the upcoming Ardennes cl𓂃assics.

Contador raced at the one-day Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta the day after finishing Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco in fifth overall and while he came close to the win after attacking on the final climb, he ultimately finished third to a fast-finishing Rui Costa (Movistar). The affects of such a busy start to the year, having accumulated more than 28 days of competition so far has begun to show, according to the rider who will seek to win the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France this year.

"My legs were 🍃heavily burdened. The body feels the fatigue of all of these days and although we could not win, we had fun," he said following the 1.1 race in Spain.

"I attacked on the last climb and at the end it was only Beñat Intxausti and me. It was a pity that they caught us with only 25 metres t📖o go and I could only achieve third," he added.

The Spaniard is never one to arrive at a race simply for training or to find race rhythm but his schedule so far in 2013 has perhaps left him in need of rest before deciding on his participation in Amstel Gold, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:La Flèche Wallonne or 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

"It has already been a busy start to the year from January, in Argentina [Tour de San Luis], and as a rider I always like to get into the fight on races, and I did so at the Tour de San Luis - even though I didn’t have sufficient training for entering in su༒ch battles. Although I got good results, it has taken its toll a little later," he said.

Contador is yet to win any of the Ardennes classics that fall within a one-week period each year. His best result wa🐎s third-place at the 2010 Flèche Wallonne but he has been named on the provisional start list for both Flèche and Liège already. Whether he can bounce back from his current state of tiredness remains to be seen however, with a little over🍷 one week before the start of Flèche it appears a number of favourites may be gifted a small sigh of relief.

"Now I'll rest a little to see how the body react🔯s to these efforts of the early season and, more recently, the Tour of the Basque Country. From there we will decide what to do," he said in regard to๊ lining up at the Ardennes classics.