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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nathan Haas was not expecting the call up for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Garmin-Sharp's Amstel Gold Race squad and it came in the mo🐓st unexpected manner.

Racing Brabantse Pijl on Wednesday, he made a daring attack off the front with aroun💫d 65km. Although he admits it wasn't his "smartest move", it was enough to suggest to team boss Joꦑnathan Vaughters that the Australian deserved the open spot for the Amstel Gold Race.

The only problem was, that Vaughters couldn't get through to Haas when he tried to call at the end of the race; the 24-year-old was headed for the airport to fly back his Spanish base in Girona. To stop him g♚etting on the plane, the only solution was twitter.

"I'll try this... If anyone is near @NathanPeterHaas please tell him he just got the la🌱st minute call up to do Amstel. And turn on his phone!"

Fortunately Vaughters' Twitter plea worked.

Haas laughed with Cyclingnews when recounting the story in Maastricht's Markt Square before the start of ಌthe Amstel🦂 Gold Race but there was a very serious side to him being there.

"I've been wanting to do this race my whole lif💃e," he admitted. "It's my favou🎀rite race in cycling so I'm pretty excited.

"It's just like a big crazy mountain bike race," H🍌aas continued, having formerly exꦓcelled in the discipline before switching his focus to the road. "It's always a real rider that wins it so I'm pretty excited to be at the start."

Haas' Ardennes adventure may not end with 75th place at the Amstel Gold Race, 9:12 down on winner Roman Kreuzi🎃ger.

"I found out I might be doing Fleche now as well and that might string on to Li🐻ege n♛ow too," he explained.

Fact is, Haas was pleasantly surprised by his 🅘form at Brabantse Pijl - "I thought I'd be going shockers," he said🔜.

Haas struggled off the back of the final days of t🌠he Tour de Langkawi where he fell ill on the final two stages. Having since raced at Critérium International and Circuit de la Sarthe - Pays de la Loire, it has been a struggle for the Australian.

"It's not the best I've been," he explained. "I'm still coming back from a mystery illness after Langkawi. It kept lingering. I'm on the way back though. I just got really sick on the last two days and I don't ꦫknow if it lingered or I tried to do too much training through the illness and it put me into a little bit of a hole. I don't know. Hopefully it's all up from here."

If that's the cas𝔉e, Haas is set to ♋make his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia next month.