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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Yates (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mitchelton-Scott) came through a difficult 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España stage 7 finale upright and with his GC options intact, on a day 💫when several top names either l﷽ost time or crashed – or both.

Yates crossed the line in the front group of 30🙈 riders, and remains fourth overall, 51 seconds behind red jersey Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ). The Briton was kept a sharp eye on any late attacks, though, as he said afterwards, “we were all going too fast for anything to stay away.”

“I was fine, I was a bit nervous at points when a few guys went up the road, but the team did a phenomenal job putting me in position and closing do🔥wn the moves. So I just cruised into the line,” Yates added.

Yates was critical of the difficult road surfaces in the final kilometres, agreeing that it wa✤s strange that after a day of racing on broad, straightforward roads, the peloton encountered such a n💖arrow one in the finale. “It was sketchy,” he said. “And the descent [near the finish] was in terrible condition.”

The sight of ﷽all the top teams massing on the front at around 40 kilometres to go suggested that trouble was brewing and when they turned hard right onto a narrower, rougher country lane, the race mutated into a totally d👍ifferent beast.

For the next 45 minutes, riders were faced with twisting, narrow backroads,🌊 treacherous downhills and what Yates said was a “really bad road surfa♚ce, with greasy roads.”

Mitchelton-Scott’s Damien Howson was among the riders to come down in the multiple crashes that affected the riders, although he could continue. Yates himself managed to come through one of the Vuelta’s most difficult and unpredictable days unscathed. “It was pretty dangerous,” he said, &lไdquo;but I got through ok.”