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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans may have arrived at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia lac꧃king the physical condition to contest for the number-one spot in the general classification but that doesn'tꦓ mean the 2010 points classification winner is racing the Italian grand tour without ambition.

Evans' 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BMC Racing Team was expected to perform amongst the best in the team time trial on Stage 2 but after 17.4 kilometres of racing, the US-registered squad came up short. The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:team was to be guided by ♊Taylor Phinney, a proven rider in tests against the clock but coming in with only the 12th-best time and 37-seconds down on the winning S🦋ky team was not what the squad envisioned.

"We had a lot of sprinter kind of guys and roulers, which normally in a team time trial is great," said Evaꦜns. "But this course was particularly hilly. Thirty-seven seconds is a little bit below what I had hoped or expected, but that's the way it is.

"The guys put in everythཧing. Someone like Klaas Lodewyck – he really gave it absolutely everything he had today, so I'm certainly not going to ask anything more of him," adde Evans of his teammate who sacrificed finishing with the six-man group including Phinney, Daniel Oss, Ivan Santaromita, Morabito, Cummings and the former Tour de France champion Evans.

"That's the way it is. We'll keep going🦹 from here," he said.

Team sports director Max Sciandri, who is reported to be taking up a more permanent position with the Italian National Team at some🎶 stage after the Giro, echoed similar sent🧸iment to Evans. Sky brought a team of climbers to support Bradley Wiggins' bid to take the maglia rosa back to the UK and if the course had been a more traditional circuit, the end result could have been very different.

"There were climbs of eight, nine or 10 percent," said Sciandri. "I think if you look at the winning [Sky] team, it is more of an imprint of a climber team. We had some really good guys who can go on the flats like a regular time trial. B✅ut we struggled a little bit with some guys on the climbs. But I don't think we could have given anything more."

Evans will start Stage 3 in 60th-place, 37-seconds down on the new race leader Salvatore Puccio (Sky). Wiggins, arguably the biggest favourite the win the Giro outright sits on ꦯthe same time as his Giro debutant Puccio.