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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dimension Data’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Louis Meintjes was one of the first riders to travel to Israel ahead of the start of this year's Giro d’Italia as the final countdown to the Friday's f🔯irst stage began⭕.

South African Meintjes, who flew in to Tel Aviv on Monday, is team principal Doug Ryder’s big hope for 🌳cultivating a Grand Tour winn🃏er at Dimension Data in the coming years, and♓ this year's G🔯iro d'Italia will be an opportunity for him to shine.

With the rest of the 2018 Giro peloton set to start arrive on T𒁏uesday evening, attention will quickly turn to acclimatising to temperatu♍res in the high 20s and low 30s this week, as well as shrugging off any minor jet-lag ahead of Friday's opening 9.7km individual time trial in Jerusalem. 

All the 176 riders will undergo pre-race anti-doping tests by the UCI Anti-Doping Foundation on Wednesday morning. The teams will train on the road in Israel and hold press conferences and events on Wednesday and Thursday, with the official team presentation on Thursday evening. Training is allowed on the time trial co💝urse on Friday morninꦇg with the first rider kicking-off the 2018 Giro d'Italia at 13:50 local time.  

Lotto Soudal change name to Lotto-Fix ALL during Giro d'Italia

Belgian squad 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto Soudal will be known as Lotto-Fix ALL for the duration of the Giro d'Italia, and the change brings with it a new jersey, with a blue-green desi🐻gn replacing the normally pꦑredominantly red jersey.

Secondary sponsor Soudal is a producer of silicone and adhesive products, and have chos🐼en to push their Fix ALL range of sealants to the Italian market.

It's the third time that the team has become Lotto-Fix ALL, followin🔥g changes in both💃 2016 and 2017 during Paris-Nice. UCI rules permit one jersey𝓰 change per year for such♓ 'special occasions'.

Bouhanni back to racing

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) will race for the first time in almost a month at the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt, after abandoning the Circuit de la Sarthe just 100 ꧑kilometres into the first stage.

The sprinters' race will be an opportunity for the Frenchman to curry favour with the management at Cofidis after a rocky start t🍃o the season. Bouhanni is still without a win in 2018 and abandoned three of his last four races. His departure from Circuit de la Sarthe elicited a strong rebuff from the new team manager Cedric Vasseur.

The former rider told L’Equipe that confidence in Bouh💙anni had fallen. "He left his teammates alone in the rain," Vasღseur told the French sports paper.

"A captain must be the last to leave the ship so Nacer must be able to finish the races, that's the minimum we ask. We c🍷annot trust him anymore. I would not put him at the start of a cyclosportiveও.”

While Bouhanni has been floundering, his former lead-out man Christophe Laporte has enjoyed a starkly different trajectory with four wins tꦛo his name already this season.

Bouhanni will be joined by Julien Simon, Michael Van Staeyen, Dimitri Claeys, Kenneth Van Bilsen, Geoffrey and Daniel Teklehaimanot at the Ge🍸rman one-day race.

Bakelants has 'hardware' removed from back

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:AG2R La Mondiale's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jan Bakelants appears well on the way to full recovery after the removal of the me🧜tal pins 🗹that were inserted into his back during surgery after his crash last October at Il Lombardia.

Bakelants returned to competition at the end of March at the Classic Loi🌠re Atlantique. He was originally unsure whether he was ever going to be able to return to racing following the horri🏅fic crash at the 2017 Il Lombardia on October 7, when he fractured four vertebrae and broke se🌱ven🧔 ribs after falling into a ravine.

Posting on Twitter, Bakelants wrote: "For those wo🌼ndering what the hardware in my back looked like. Glad I got rid of it. Time to move on."

He added a 'muscle' emoji for good measureꩲ, alongside the picture of various rather large screws and plates, using a one-euro coin to give it some perspective.