Durbridge tops Orica's Giro d'Italia with third podium finish
ꦛFormer Australian champion finishes second to QuickStep's Iljo Keisse du💛ring final stage
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica-GreenEdge topped off the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2015 Giro d'Italia with the team's third podium when former Australian national champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Luke Durbridge finished second in a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:two-up sprint with Etixx-QuickStep's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Iljo Keisse.
The two late escapees spoiled the planned party for the spr𒁃inters after they got away on the first of seven clo🎉sing circuits in Milan.
"We were always going to try," said Orica-GreenEdge sport direct💞or Matt White. "We tried, and it very nearly came off."
The combination of Keisse, an experienced six-day racer on the track, and Durbridge, a time trial specialist, was well-suited to hold off a peloton that initially had tཧrouble deciding who should commit to the chase, then was plagued by punctures and mechanicals.
"We knew the circuit was tight and that it would be hard to👍 organise a chase and there was also a few things that went in our favour in terms of certain guys puncturing and the like," White said.
"As I always say, it's one thing to have goals and another thin🥂g to have the team to be able to achieve them. But to have the Giro we have had, two years in a row, is very satisfying and all of the guys should be very proud."
Orica-GreenEdge leaves this year's Giro having scored two stage wins, three podiums and four days in the maglia rosa. The team scored their first success during the opening team time trial in San Remo, with Simon Gerrans crossing the line first and earning theﷺ first pink jersey of the race.
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Michael Matthews was the next rider to take the jersey after he finished second during stage 2. Matthews won stage 3 in the jersey, but then surrendered it the next day to teammate Simon Clarke, who finished second 🎃behind solo winner Davide ꦯFormolo (Cannondale-Garmin) during stage 4.
"People feel pressure when they don't think they can achieve the end goal," White said. "When you are confident in the working group, confident in each other and confident 🍸in the work you have done that is a different type of pressure and something our team can handle.
"We know what we are capable of doing," White said. "We can't win the Tour de France at the moment, we can't win the Giro🅘 d'I▨talia at the moment, but what we can win is certain targets, and that is a real strength of our team and our athletes."
