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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:John Degenkolb celebrated his first win of the season on the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fourth and final stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Arctic Tour of Norway, getting the better of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) and Arnaud Demare (FDJ). After mechanical issues scuppered his chances for stage 1 victory, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant-Alpecin rider and 2015 Milan-San Remo champion got t𒀰he better of the 2014 and 2016 La Primavera victors in Bodo.

"It's a great relief to𝐆 get the victory, and it ಌtook a lot of energy, almost as much as winning a monument," Degenkolb said of his first win since stage 21 of the 2015 Vuelta a Espana which also saw him claim the points classification.

"I'm super happy to not be alone here as the team did an awesome job, incredibly good," added Degenkolb who was second on stages 1 and 2. "They timed the lead-out perfectly and I could finish it off with good legs in the end. I was twice really close to the win this week and it didn't work out perfectly yet, but tꦛoday it went very fine and we did a great job."

Degenkolb was one of six Giant-Alpecin riders involved in an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:early-season training ride crash after a car veered onto the wrong side of the road. The 27-year-old suffered injuries to his wrist, forearm, thigh, lip 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:and almost lost his index finger. He made his first racing appearance of 2016 at the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt, and earned selection for the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France with his best resulꦯts  coming on stage 14 and 16 when he finished fourth.

For coach Dirk Reuling, the result was a long time coming and pra♔ised the efforts of his riders to deliver Degenkolb into prime position for the victory.

"It's his first win of the season and after h🦂is comeback so it's a special win, he really deserved that," said Reuling. "There was a really hard fight in the beginning, before the first climb. Then on the climb it looked controlled but BMC made it really hard and the peloton split. John was in the second split and so we had to race hard for a long time to bring it back. The team worked really well there and everything came back together.

"When the six riders were away, we put Max [Kanter] in the chase – we saw he was really strong earlier in the week, and gave him th𓂃e roll of helping bring the gap down, which worked out. Then at the end ওthe guys did a great lead-out and John finished it off." 

Degenkolb 168澳洲5🌞最新开奖结果:is likely to make just two more appearances in Giant-Alpecin colours at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vattenfall Cyclassics and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:GP Ouest France - Plouay having 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confirmed his move to Trek-Segafredo at the end of the season, and will close out the year with the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Championships in Doha.

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