After yesterday's frenetic finale to the opening stage of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Critérium du Dauphiné, there was even less certainty that stage 2 would finish in a bunch gallop. That possibility surely dropped even lower when 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) was dropped with 56km remaining on the second-category Côte du Ch&🌞acirc;teau de Buron climb.💮
However, the Italian showed why he's the best sprinter at this year's edition of the pre-Tour warm-up race by making it back into the peloton, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:powering to the stage win and then inꦰto the leader's 🥃yellow jersey in one foul swoop.
The two-time Giro d'Italia points classification winner won by over a bike length ahead of Fred Wright (Bahrain-Victorious) in the end, 🦂despite the rest of the field's best attempts to shed the fastman from the pack.
"After yesterday, I was really, really tired, and today I knew that it would be this climb here where they will go full gas and try to drop me," he told the media, including Cyclingnews, in his post-stage press conference.
He heaped praise onto his teammate♔s for burying themselves in a bid to return him to primeꦰ position in time for the sprint finish.
"In the end, I was just🌸 on the limit and my teammates waited for me, brought me back, and they go♛t me until the last 100 metres. I think it was a super team job," he added.
Milan spoke before the stage about how the race miles that the Dauphiné brings ahead of the Tour de France were as much value to him as any stage win ಌhe mi🦋ght come across, with today's hectic chase also proving to have a psychological benefit too.
"Today is also a lot in the head, seeing that the team was also really believing in all this rea🌄lly pushed me, really gave me a lot. So this also helped me, and not ju🐻st that they guided me [back], but also to see all of them supporting me mentally."
Speaking to the press in 🙈the yellow jersey, Milan was asked if he hoped to be in a similar position during the first we🍷ek of July, with the Tour de France's opening stage around Lille almost certain to end in a sprint finish.
"We are here to build up a good 💞shape for the Tour de France, and of course, this [win] 🍎brings motivation for me and for my team.
"[The Tour] is a really big goal for us. In the first stage, we already have this possibility for us sprinters, and we are preparing the best that we can. So for sure, we'll 🤪give 100% in the end🐓."
Winning a stage at the Dauphiné will naturally mean more eyeballs will🍬 land on the Italian sprinter when the Tour's sprint stages roll around - and more occasions where teams attempt to drop him, however, he doesn't seem to feel the pressure.
"I'm not nervous. I'm just enjoying all this."
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