Taking advantage of a four-week gap between racing appearances, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Thibaut Pinot has spent several days on a mini training camp in the French Alps with seven of his FDJ teammates, enabling them to check over the final key stages of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France.

From their base at Notre-Dame-de-Bellecombe in Savoie, the eight FDJ riders carried out a recon of the Tour's 17th stage to the Émosson-Finhaut summit finish in Switzerland, the 20th stage that concludes with the ascent of the Col de Joux Plane and the tricky descent off i🅷t into Morzine, the 17-kilometre mountain time trial between Sallanches and Megève, which takes place the day after the Émosson stage, and, to finish with, the 15th stage over the Grand Colombier into Culoz.

. "The linking toget𓄧her of the Forclaz pass and Émosson means there is more than 1,000 metres of vertical gain. It's one of the race's most difficult finishes along with the Ventoux."

The eight ri🍰ders concluded their camp with a look at the stage 18 mountain time trial, taking the opportunity to test out equi🎶pment. “It's a time trial that suits climbers, so it ticks all of the boxes for me. I haven't done too many time trials like this one," Pinot explained.

Pinot was accompanied by Arthur Vichot, Jérémy Roy, Matthieu Ladagnous, Anthony Roux, William Bonnet, Sébastien Reichenbach and Steve Morabito, who are all pencilled in as Tour starters. The ninth slot on the FDJ team is likely to go to Alexandre Geniez, assuming he recovers fully𒐪 from the wrist injury that forced him out of the Giro during its opening days.

"I've always said that my objective is to finish as close as possible to the podium," Pinot said of his aims for July. "If I finish fourth, three minutes down on third place, I won't have any regrets. If I'm fiꦉfth and 15 seconds off the podium I'll also be ꦜhappy."

Having finished second on his la⛦st racing appearance a꧂t the Tour de Romandie at the start of this month, Pinot's build-up to the Tour will continue at the Critérium du Dauphiné in early June.

"I’m going to go there with the intention of contending for the overall. I've set myself a little target: not finishing outside the top five this season," revealed Pinot, who had already finished third at Bessèges, fourth in the Algarve, fifth at Tirreno, first in the Cri🍰terium International and fourth in the Vuelta al País Vasco prior to being runner-up at Romandie.