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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Team Sky) will ride two lucrative criteriums in Kazakhstan and the Netherlands next weekend before heading to Nimes for the start of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Espana on August 19.

Froome is currently training with several teammates in Châtel, near Morzine in France, combining recovery from the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France with a block of altitude training for the Vuelta a Espana. He is hoping to become the first rider to win the Tour de Fr൲ance ꦅ– Vuelta a Espana double since the Spanish Grand Tour was moved from April to late summer in 1995.

The Team Sky leader took part in a series of lucrative criteriums after winning his fourth Tour de France in Paris on July 23, reportedly ear𓂃ning close to 40,000 Euro each time he pinned on a number and put on a show in races in Belgium and the Netherlands.

He is one of 15 big-♔name riders invited to a special criterium in the Kazakhstan capital Astana on Saturday August 12 and will then ride the Profwielerronde Etten-Leur criterium in southern Holland on Sunday August 13. The organisers of the Dutch race have arranged a private jet for the flight from Astana to ensure that Froome arrives in the Netherlands in time f🧜or the three-event race in the afternoon.

The Astana criterium will celebrate the 2017 Expo being held in Kazakhstan, with Fabio Aru, Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa and severa🤪l riders from the Astanaꦬ team also due to take part.

The Profwielerronde Etten-Leur race has also attracted Warren Barguil (Team Sunweb), Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) and Dutch national champion Ramon Sinkeldam (Team Sunweb) s it strives to 🐼be the biggest criterium on the calendar. Landa has recently been signed up for the race and will reporte꧃dly travel with Froome on the private jet after racing in Kazakhstan.

"We have been the biggest criterium in the Netherlands for three💦 years in terms of the rider budget. We are not pleased with just one top ride🐠r," race organiser Ronnie Buiks said in a press conference on Friday confirming the big-name field for the criterium.

"In March, I said that we go after all the jersey winners of the Tour. Due to the busy cycling calendar, it's difficult 🍰but I won't make it easy for them to say no. We can now 𝕴say that they have the most expensive field ever."