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There were no miracles for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Dumoulin (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giant-Alpecin) on the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia's 40-kilometre time trial through the rolling hills of Chianti. No wine, only for water for the Dutchman, who must already have had a sinking feeling as he sat in t꧅he start house and watched leaden drops of rain fall from the skie🍌s above.

The earlier starters ♋had enjoyed pleasant sunshine and dry roads during the test, bu﷽t the heavens opened as Dumoulin and the general classification contenders set out later in the afternoon. Even before Dumoulin started, he realised the stage win was out of reach. By the midway point, it was clear that a rapid return to the maglia rosa was also beyond him.

Dumoulin had dropped from first t🦩o 11th on Saturday after losing ground on the Alpe di Poti, and there would be no immediate comeback here. He could only manage 15th place on the stage, some 1:58 behind Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo), the man he denied by hundredths of a second in the opening🅠 time trial in Apeldoorn more than a week ago. Several lifetimes in Giro terms.

"It was shit, I had no chance and I didn't take any risks," Dumoulin said of his day on crossing the lin💖e in Greve in Chianti, where a scrum of television reporters surrounded him and took turns to ask him variations on t🐈he same question.

Polite to a fault, Dumoulin answered with as much coherence as he could manage in the seconds after finishing his effort. His responses, too, barely deviated fro💦m the same theme. "I had a lot of luck in the first days of the Giro and now I don't," he said. "My legs were a little bit better than yesterday but I didn't want to take any risks in this weather and the win was already gone."

Dumoulin c💃ould even muster some dry humour when a local reporter thrust a microphone in his face and asked: "What will yo💎u do tomorrow and in the coming days?"

"Tomorrow I'm goi𝓡ng to lay in my bed because it's a rest day," Dum൩oulin said softly. "The next day we'll see."

Dumoulin began the day just 1:05 off Gianluca Brambilla's overall, but despite the pink jersey being theoretically within reach before the start, he was al𒈔ready sceptical of his prospects🉐 of defending further.

"Even with the rain, you hope the pink jersey is still ꧟a possibility because all the GC riders had to ride in the same conditions, but it was hard mentally to give everything and dare to take full risks, especially after having already had six days in pink," he said. "The time trial win here had been my goal."

Dumoulin's performance was enough to nudge him back up to 7th overall, 58 seconds off the maglia rosa of Brambilla, an🌳d within five seconds of both Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) and Alejandro Valverde (♏Movistar), but he insisted that he was no longer harbouring general classification ambitions.

"I've pꦅut the GC out of my mind," he said. "It would have been nice to win back the pink jersey today, but I knew I would lose it again on one of the mountain stages."

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• Brambilla holds Giro d'Italia lead by one second

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