News shorts: Illness forces Contador to skip San Sebastian and end season
Boonen to skipಞ Vuelta a Espana, Barguil to San Sebastian



Contador ends season due to illness
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador had planned to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:end his season with ꦏthe Clasica San Sebastian, but ๊has now 🌟announced he will not ride the Spanish race.
“Good morning all,3 days after the Tour still continue with fever. Sorrowfully I cannot be in San Sebastian,” he Tweeted Wednesday 🐷morning.
Contador had hoped to be the first to win the Giro d’Italia/Tour de France double since 1998. He won the overa🌌ll title in the Giro but was fifth in the Tour.
Te𝔉am Tinkoff-Saxo has not yet announced if he will be replaced inSan Seba༺stian.
No Vuelta for Boonen
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Boonen will skip the Vuelta a Espana this year, but will loo🐻k to other races to prepare for the World Championships in Richmond. It has been an off-year for the 34-year-old, with only two wins so far.
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Instead of ☂Spain, the Etixx-QuickStep will tackle the Eneco Tour (August 10-17) and the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg on August 23, reports nieuwsblad.de.
If he is nominated by h𒊎is team for the Worlds team time trial, he will probably ride the GP Quebec (September 11) and the GP Montreal (September 13). If not, he will take on the Tour of Britain (September 6-13) before traveling to the US for൲ the Worlds.
Boonen underwent 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:surgery for a dislocated shoulder after crashing out of Paris-Nice and was out of racing for near൩ly two months and keeping him out of the Spring Classics.
Barguil to lead Giant-Alpecin in San Sebastian
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Warren Barguil, coming off 14th place overall in the Tour de France, will captain Giant-Alpecin in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Clasica San Sebastian this coming weekend. He will look to become the first rider to finish in the top 30 f🍒or the German-based team, in its third participation.
According to team coach Christian Guibertea💦u, Barguil is “a rider who normally fits the course to aim🎶 at a good result, but we have to await how he recovers from his first Tour de France to be ready for another hard race. The rest of the team will support him in that.”
The rest of t💟he team consists of Chad Haga, brothers Frederik and Tobias Ludvigꦏsson, and Zico Waeytens, who are all coming off altitude training in France, as well as Koen de Kort, Thierry Hupond and Lars van der Haar.