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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mikel Landa is prepared to fight for the 2017 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France podium but underlines that assertion with the considerable caveat that he would only do so if it did not affect the chances of Sky teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome.

Froome himself praised ❀Landa's move in Friday's breakaway, which pulled the Basque star back into potential overall contention as he regained nearly two minutes and moved up from seventh to fifth. Froome said that Landa's presence gives Sky two cards to play in the GC battle.

Even so, this is the first time that Landa has stated clearly how high he thinks he🅷 could go in the Tour, after his participation in the Giro d'Italia as a GC contender disintegrated when he and co-leader Geraint Thomas crashed into a bad♍ly parked police motorbike.

Although Thomas abandoned, Landa raced on through the Giro, racking up the mountains class♏ification title and a stage win. He is now deep into his second Grand Tour of the year.

Speaking to Spanish radio on the morning of stage 14, Landa confirmed what he had told Cyclingnews earlier in the race: "I started off very cautiously, 𝓀not su🎶re how I would go and taking things day by day. But right now I'm feeling really good."

Landa confirmed that Sky now has two GC options and that Froome was pleased with how he had raced on stage 13, working with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador (Trek-Segafredo) to open up a gap of nearly three minut🐈es on the yellow jersey - and the Briton - before ending the stage with a lead of just under two minutes.

"The team's in a great po𒆙sition and although we're obviously working for Chris here I think I'll be part of the game."

Asked directly if he saw himself winning the Tour, Landa s♊aid, "I don't think so. I'm still a minute down, and hopefully, I✃ can fight for a place on the podium, but without affecting Chris's chances and trying to help him."

Leadership in Sky's Tour team, he t🌠old the radio stations, would only happen "if Chris has to abandon or starts going really badly. But I don't want to have that role here."

Landa's mission right up to the last day of the Tour de France is to support Froome. Rather than just backing the Briton though as a team worker, Landa's ꦿrole would now be as a rider with GC options. "We'll have to use the fact that we've got two cards to play, and there'll be times when I have to go on breaks to put the rest of the contenders under pressure and other times I'm with him."

As for attacking with Contador on Friday, he reflected that going clear with the double Tour winner "made me dream a bit. He's a brave guy, he all but turned the race upཧside down, and that's benefit꧒ed me enormously."