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After 10 difficult and not to mention, painful days of racing at this year’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Garmin-Sharp looked to bounce back on the first stage after the rest day. At the start of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:stage 10 in Maçon the riders were clearly in good spirits, with Dave Zabriskie providing the waiting media with a dance ൲ജoutside the team bus and David Millar saying he would aim for the day’s break.

Charley Wegelius had been drafted i🌄n for DS duties and was putting together a plan for action, a strategy that paid off when Millar and Zabriskie joined together in the early 24-man break.

"I wanted to go in the break today just to get my head back into racing," Millar told Cyclingnews at the finish.

However with the Col du Grand Colombier both Garmin riders became unstuck, with a number of stronger climbers advanci😼ng towards the finish.

"Once꧂ the break secured itself, Zabriskie came up to me and asked ‘do you think you can beat Sagan in the sprint and I just looked at him and said 'do yಞou think you can out climb Scarponi?' We knew it wasn’t going to happen."

Garmin came into the race with the clear ambitions of supporting Ryder Hesjedal attempt a rare Giro and Tour de France double, as well as offering Tyler Farrar a leadout in the sprints. However, with Hesjedal🐲 out through a crash and Farrar nursing injuries 💫after several crashes the team have needed to refocus their efforts.

"I don&rsquoꦐ;t think we’re on the back foot I just think we’ve had to change our objectives," added Millar.

"That💧’s not easy when we had such a clearly defined goal but I think we can do it. We’ve got the riders. It’s an opportunity that we don’t normally have within our team because normally we’re fixed on team goals so ꩲit does take a bit of a mentality shift but it shows that we’re doing that. We’re in the breaks and we’ll keep doing that."

Wiggins is clean

Millar also added that he sympathises with Bradley Wiggins (Sky) after the Tour leader was asked to defend himself during this year’s Tour after suspicions over his achievements on the road. The speculation shot to life on Twitter and Wiggins 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:reacted angri🤪ly at his press confere🅘nce in Porrentruy. He later gave a 𝐆168澳洲5最新开奖结果:more measured response after stage 10.

"I can empathise with him. We’re in different posಞitions I think, me being an ex-doper it’s a bit easier for me to take the thought and the analytical response out but for Brad it’s a very em🧔otional thing. He’s a clean athlete and when people accuse him of being doped obviously he’s going to react very emotionally. I can understand it."