In the first big bunch sprint of the 'new normality' it was business as usual for Colombia's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fernando Gaviria (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates) , who picked up at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a Burgos from where he had left off in th♕e Vuelta a  San Juan, adding his fourth win of the season to🌃 his hat-trick in January in Argentina.

CCC, Deceuninck-QuickStep and finally Groupa🐈ma-FDJ hadꦯ all tried to keep their riders at the front of the line as the peloton roared down the final, fast descent into Villadiego. 

Gaviria was a mat💮ch for all of them, streaking past the French train without any difficulty and taking a victory by several bike 𓄧lengths ahead of Arnaud Démare (Groupama-FDJ) and Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick Step).

For Gaviria and Team UAE, victory concluded what had been a fraught day at the office in the best of styles, given the events of the morning of stage 2.

Three of his teammates - Sebastian Molano, Cristian Muñoz and Camilo Ardila  -  were all 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:sent home on Wednesday morning after it was discovered they had had contact with a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19. All three had returned double negative PCR results for COVꦕID-19 before Burgos, but the team opte🌠d to take them out of the race a precaution.

"It was a difficult decision for the whole team because Molano is a rider who could have helped me greatly in this finish," Gaviria said aꦆfterwards, "but these are decisions that have to be taken.

"W♊e couldn't risk anything bad happening to all the riders and all the teams. These are protocols that we have t♏o follow.

"It was difficult but I stayed focussed and tried to take tওhe victory. I had checked out the corner twice" -  earlier on the stage when it crossed through the finish town -  "and then when I took the corner I was really in front and I w🐬ent full gas to the finish."

Gaviria had no doubts about to whom he dedicated ⛎the win:  "It was a victory for all the team because it's a really difficult moment for 🎉all the peloton, we haven't raced for a long time."

Gaviria was amazed, to say the least, when asked if he had bꦬeen involved or affected by the crash that affected some riders in the last big right hand corner, with around 500 metres to go. It turned out he hadn't even seen it.

"¿Caída? ¿Donde?" - Fall, Where? - Gaviria asked incredulously in Spaಌnish when the question was posed. "No." he then answered, shortly.

"For sure it's one of the sweetest tasting victories this year, because of t🌃he whole hiatus and what's happened with the virus. After being stuck at home not knowing if we'd be racing again at all this year, being able to claim a victory here is just great," Gaviria added.

"We didn't do any work to control the breakaway because we were three riders down.  But still, we were able to count on legs ൲and luck, and at the right moment we came together to do a good sprint a𓃲nd get the win."

💎Gaviria will have another chance at bunch sprint win on Friday, although the terrain is arguably harder, with an uphill drag in the last kilometre. But to judge by Wednesday's performance, that shouldn't present too much of a problem.