168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Hugh Carthy (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education-Nippo) heads back to his pro racing roots at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta a Catalunya this week, the same race where he took a breakthrough ninth place overall and the best young rider's jersey in 2016, and where he's now building towards the Giro d'Ital💙ia.

Third in his first race of the season, the Faun Ard&egra๊ve;che Classic, Carthy finished 55th on the opening stage of Catalunya with his options intact after a fast but fraught first day of WorldTour racing this 𝐆year.

"The winter went all right and I'm ready to go," Carthy told reporters before the start.ꦇ "I'm probably in similar form to this time last year, but at this point, everytꦕhing was stopped so you never know.

"I'm happy with the form I've got, so now I want to see if I can get a result this spri🌳ng."

Carthy took a spectacular victory last year on the Angliru in the Vuelta a España but his time trialling was also notably on display in the third week of the same Grand Tour, when he finished fourth in the Mirador de Ézaro stage, effectively cementing ❀his third place overall in Madrid.

Tuesday's 18.5-kilometre time trial in Banyoles will be the first one he's ridden sinc🉐e then and the EF Education-Nippo rider is keen to see how it goes.

"It's an interesting length, and a pure test of your form, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes," he refl𓃲ected.

As for the rest overall route🔯 of the Volta, Carthy described it as "pretty normal, every stage i🌠s more or less what you'd expect, with a couple of mountain top finishes."

But with the weather always uncertain in Catalonia to the point where stages have been cancelled in the past because of sudden snowfalls, C🅺arthy argued that "you've got to keep in mind that today [sta🌊ge 1] could be the last one in the mountains. You have to race hard for each day."

The Briton says he's got the same kind of attitude to racing this year, e🌠ven if his big objective of the 🔜first half of the season will be in May.

"The m🌳ain goal is the Giro, but every race I'm going to I'm going to try and 🧸do something," he promised. "Every race is going to be a focus."