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A perfectly timed late-race attack by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Adam Hansen (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto-Belisol) netted the Australian the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España168澳洲5最新开奖结果: stage 19 win ahead of ♛the chasing peloton at Cangas do Mor🤪razo.

Hansen had already claimed a Giro stageᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ win in Pescara last year, taking it from a 147-kilometre breakaway in heavy rain after dropping Italian Emmanuele Sella.

This time Han🥀sen secured a win in very different circumstances, sheering out of the pack four kilometres from the line and then fending off ෴the peloton to win five seconds ahead of John Degenkolb (Giant-Shimano).

“For me it’s very important, I got a Giro stage win and now I got a Vuelta stage win,” Hansen said. “I always like the Vuelta, it’s got good weather, it’s hot and I love th♛e heat, so to win here is very special.”

Hansen had tried some early attacks in the first week - his explanation at the time to Cyclingnews being that he “had been ꦬbored” - but he said today he had &🦩ldquo;better timing and the profile suited me a lot better.”

More tha🦋n half the Vuelta teams have not won stages, including Lotto-Bel🐭isol prior to Hansen’s win, and he said “the pressure had been growing on the team as the days counted down.

“I knew th𒁃at [Michael] Matthews (Orica Green-Edge) and Degenkolb’s teams had been working hard in the first part of the stage to bring back the break [of the day] so they didn’t have much ene♔rgy left.”

After the Vuelta, Hansen will race the team time trial at the Worlds and then round off his year at the Tour of Bei💫jing. Next year, he says, he “hopes to have e🐓xactly the same program as this season.”

Barring disaster, the Australian is on the point of completing his tenth Grand Tour in a row, equalling the record of racing and completing all three - the Giro, Vuelta൲ and Tour - in three single seasons held by Bernardo Ruiz and Marino Lejarreta.

Hansen was asked if - as in the Giro when he won his stage - h𝐆e had shaved his🌳 head in the morning prior to racing as a way, as he then put it back then, “of making sure I remembered it was going to be a special day.”

“I did plan to shave my head this morning, but I didn’t have much time,” he said. “The only wacky thing I did was I had three pieces of strawberry bubble gum this morning, and I was blowing bubblꩵes in the first 30 kilometres of racing.”