168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Robert Gesink (Rabobank) may have lost almost three minutes during s⭕tage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné, but the young🌟 Dutch rider was confident that he could learn from the experience ahead of the Tour de France.

Wednesday&rsqu♛o;s 42.5km time trial around Grenoble was a carbon copy of the Tour’s penultimate stage and Ges༺ink feels that the rolling course is one that should see him limit his losses to the specialists in July.

. “It’s better than the flat time trial last year in the Tour around the vineyards of Bordeaux.”

Although he finished 2:49 behind stage winner Tony Martin (HTC-Highroad) on Wednesday, Gesink believes that th♒e experience will help him when it comes to his second 🃏attempt at the course in six weeks’ time. “I now know what gears I can go with,” he explained.

Raboban🉐k directeur sportif Adri van Houwelingen echoed his rider’s cඣomments and stressed that the time trial’s importance was as a dress rehearsal for the Tour.

“By the standards of today, it [Gesink’s performance] is clearly not very good, but we’re not unhappy with the difference between Robert and his likely Tour riv✤als,” van Houwelingen t🎀old . “Robert is not super, but that’s not a bad thing. He can get better and will be better the next time. We’re not worried and neither is Robert.”