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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España contender 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome expects cycling's third Grand Tour of 2012 to be an open, hard race with major ge😼neral classification battles almost as soo🦩n as it gets underway on Saturday.

"We hit the mountains in the second or third s🎃ౠtage, and there's no let-up from there on," Froome said in a press conference on Thursday afternoon.

"The last climb is the day before we reach Madrid, so the race i🌜s still 'on' right up unti🅘l that point. There will be everything to race for right up until then."

"I don💫't know any of the climbs, so I'll be taking it on the day by day, s🌟eeing how it goes."

"It's been a long season, but I feel like I'm in good physical condition. More importantly I have a strong team behind me, there are several riders in the team that could be in the top ❀10 in Madrid."

Froome finished second in last year's Vuelta and second in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, both times racing alongside Bradley Wiggins. The Vuelta 2012 is the first time he will be the sole leader of Sky.

"Leading is a new experience for me but at the end of the day, it's the same job, you've st𝓀ill got to pedal. I'm more in the limelight but I've got the team and the ability to carry this all through."

"This race is definitely a great opportun🧔ity for me, I will do my part and I know the res🍌t of the team is ready."

"We've been really successful so far and hopefully we can carry on with the same momentum. The goal has to be to do the best we can on GC and if we can pick up a few stages with Swifty [sprinter Ben Swift] then🃏 that would be ideal for us."

Tipped as the 'only rider who can beat Contador in the Vuelta' by many members of the media, Froome responds, "I can't really say. I haven't ever raced with him, and I can only speak for ꦕmy own condition. I'm sure he's very motivatܫed after his suspension and obviously in the Vuelta, his home race, it'll be added motivation for him. We'll find out during the race."

Froome is also looking ahead to the world champioﷺnships as a possible target, because as he says, it'sꩵ very frequently the case that riders who have done the Vuelta have good condition there. There's also a similar gap between the end of the Vuelta and the Worlds TT to the one between the Tour and the Olympics, where he took bronze in the time trial as well as working flat out for Mark Cavendish in the road-race in between.

What will be different in the Vuelta, in any case, is that he will not be racing alon෴gside Wiggins in a Grand Tour.

"It's definitely going to be a change, a new experience for me. I'm nꦰot riding at someone else's speed. I'd like to think I've learned from the last two Grand Tours I've done how to pace myself, how I need to ride🌳 to be in optimum position throughout three weeks, not just a couple of days."

"It's interesting, exciting. I personally do🎃n't know how Iꦐ'm going to be in terms of form. I might go to the second stage and say 'this is too tough' or or I might say, ‘I've got the legs, let's carry on."