The London Olympic road course was never going to suit 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans’ strengths. Last year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France champion was not heading to London in search of a personal result, and instead, his role was to ꦰride the 250km race in support of his team. After a disappointing end to his Tour title defence, Evans was almost a late withdrawal from the Games.🦋 He had appeared to be struggling with some form of illness toward the end of the Tour but the true extent is not known.  This weekend, he decided, with input from doctors, to sit out the Olympic time trial.

"This year hasn't gone as we had anticipated, as I wanted," Evans told The Age.

"A few things have happened with my health this𝄹 year that put me back before the Tour, which put me back during the Tour and put me back coming i𝕴nto here," he said.

In the end, Evans arrived in London with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:plan of riding both the road race and the following Wednesday’s time trial. He lined up in the road race in support of the team’s best medal hope, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Matt Goss. With a planned bunch sprint, Evans was charged with looking after the sprinter throughout the race, while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Gerrans was to look for opportunities towa𒅌rd the last of the Box Hill ci▨rcuits.

Unfortunately for the Australians, neither of these plans came to fruition. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stuart O’Grady saved the day by entering the♑ early break and rode for more than 230km off the front of the peloton to a fine sixth place. It is to be his final Olympic participation.

With Evans’ health a lingering concern for himself and his team, it was initially uncertain whether he would be abl💛e to line up for the 4﷽4km individual time trial on Wednesday.

Soon after the road race, he said, "I want to talk to the te💜am and see where we are. We have just finished - I have to have a moment to reflect. I am still just trying to get together what happened in the race today in front and then look ahead. Normally, yeah [I'd race], let's recover from this one, get a good analysis of this one and then and then go for the next one."

Following further medical consultation after the Olympic road race, Evans cancelled plans to race the Olympic time trial.  "Cadel Ev🌸ans will not compete in the men's individual time-trial event. He has been seen by the cycling doctor Dr Mark Fisher and Olympic team medical director, Dr Peter Baquie, and they have confirmed he is fatigued and will not recover in time for Wednesday," read a statement from the Australia Olympic Committee according to .

No one will replace Evan🙈s, so Michael Rogers will be Australia's sole representative in the time trial.