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It will be a high stakes game for the general classification hopefuls at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia with Saturday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:54.8km individual time trial set to provܫide tඣhe first real selection for the overall.

The fortunes of pre-race favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins (Sky) are likely to be focus of the afternoon, having lost 1:24 to his prin🌼cipal rivals for final overall victory and dropped to 23rd overall, 1:32 off the maglia rosa of Benat Intxausti (Movistar) due t🌺o a crash late on Stage 6. The long and technical race against the clock was likely one for the Brit but any after-effects of the crash won't be known until late on Saturday with switchbacks, climbs and cobbles littering the parcours.

"You can have good days and bad days and you☂ have to wait until the end to tot them all up and see where you are," said Sky's team principal Sir David Brailsford following the conclusion of Friday's stage. "It's a setback, but Brad's still very much in the hunt. We've now got to take each day as it comes, focus on fully recovering tonigh🐎t and hitting the time trial hard tomorrow. We'll see where we are tomorrow night and take stock of the situation then."

Intxausti's stint in the pink is expected to be brief with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) the best-placed of the overall contenders, five seconds back, three ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp), 11 ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cadel Evans (BMC), 14 ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Robert Gesink (Blanco), 52 ahead of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michele Scarponi (Lampre-Merida) and 1:27 up on Wiggins.

Nibali wasn't too hopeful of his chances saying: "The favourite is Wiggins and I hope I lose the least amount ofౠ time possible but I don't want to say how much," while E♒vans is instead looking for a marker against his rivals.

"It's a really long and really hard and demanding time trial and we really don't have a point of reference of how I am time trialing compared to the other guys," the Australian said. "I will first of all concentrate on doing my best and, of course if I co♛ntinue to move up on the general classifi𓃲cation, that's optimal."

Former Australian under 23 time trial champion and last on general classification Jack Bobridge (Blanco) will be the first rider to leave the start house in Gabicce Mare with riders leaving at one-minute interꦰvals until Katusha's Luca Pao♐lini departs three minutes behind Tom Danielson (Garmin Sharp) at 3.15pm local time.

Giro d'Italia Stage 8 start times