168澳洲5最新开奖结果:João Almeida seized the race lead of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Volta a Catalunya on Friday's stage 5 with an impressive turn of speed at an intermediate sprint but the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UAE Team Emirates leader remains cautious about whether he can the overall classification 🐽on Sunday in Barcelona.

The GC classification remains intriguingly close after the first of three post-Pyrenean stages. Almeida had previously been tied on time with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nairo Quintana, but has now inches ahead thanks to his third place and one-second ti🤪me bonus in the late intermediate sprint.

A year after he briefly held the lead in the Volta a Catalunya, the 23-year-old is now back 🦄in the top spot overall but with Quintana only one second behind and no less than 13 riders at less than a minute, Almeida accepts the race could well go down to the wire.

"It's very possible that whoever wins the last stage in Barcelona wins the race o🔯verall," Almeida said🃏.

"So many riders are close together that it's a stage which is sure to see loads of atꦕtacks. The climb we face on each circuit [with a total of six eight-kilometre laps - Ed.] is very hard, and the drop down to the fi𓆉nish is really important too. The bonus seconds are sure to count for a lot."

Almeida was his usual phlegmatic self when asked about how he had managed to take the lead in the inter🐈mediate sprint, which seemingly occurred thanks to his keeping a cool head after the original plan went awry.

"Finally it worked out, but a lit𒐪tle bit before I was following a teammate and moving up in the 𒁏last 500 metres to try and stop Nairo getting any seconds' bonus," Almeida recounted.

"The plan was for me to sprint and I was behind a teammate for the lead out but he lost the other guys' wheels. So I went for it mys✤elf and finally got the bonus."

His sprint was on the far s𝄹ide of the road from the main battle for the bonuses and as Almeida himself acknowledged, it almost went unnoticed. 

The result was what counted.

"If I win that's great and if I d𓆉on't then someone was better than me and I won't get too upset," Almeida said. 

"What matters is that I do my best."