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The final time trial stage at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tirreno-Adriatico is expected to crown 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nairo Quintana as the final overall winner of the 2017 Race of the Two Seas after his dominant ride on the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:queen stage to Terminillo. However the battle for the other podium pla🐠ces alongside the Colombian will be a fight for every second, with a huge shake up of the top ten overall ꧙possible.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Thibaut Pinot (FDJ), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rohan Dennis (BMC), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Primoz Roglic (LottoNL-Jumbo), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Geraint Thomas (Team Sky), Rigoberto Uran (Cannondale-Drapac), Jonathan Castroviejo (Movistar), Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) and Simon Spilak (Katusha) are all fighting for the final places in the top ten of the overall classification, precious UCI WorldTour ranking points as important as bragging rights just seven weeks from the start of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The out and back time trial on the San Benede🥃tto seafront will be a real race of truth, with riders exp🌼ected to cover the 10km course in around twelve minutes or faster.

Nairo Quintana (Movistar) leads Pinot by 50 seconds, with Dennis third overall at 1:06. The next six riders are squeezed into a 31-second window, with their variety of time trial skills and form making it impossible to predict who will rise and who will fall in the t♚op ten.

In 2015 Quintana lead the race by 39 seconds before the final time trial. He finished 51st and lost 55 secon🍰ds to stage winner Fabian Cancellara but did enough to win overall, 18 seconds ahead of Mollema, 31 seconds ahead of Uran and 35 seconds ahead of Pinot. Pinot pulled back 22 seco🌳nds on Quintana in the time trial and two years ago so is unlikely to do it this time.

Quintana tried to stay confidence after a quiet sixth st💞age in the peloton on Monday but he m꧃ust be scared of a puncture or complex mechanical problem wrecking the hard work he and Movistar have done this week.

"I've got a few seconds and 𝄹they're reassuring but it'll be an important stage for sure," Quintana said in his post-stage press conference꧑.

Dennis hoping to close the gap on Pinot

Pinot will start the time trial at 3:56 pm local time, two minutes before Quintana. He will have to scrutinise clock as he finishes and check to see how Dennis performs two minutes ahead of him. The 26 year-old Australia has 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:emerged as BMC leader this week, eclipsing 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tejay van Garderen with a determined ride. He 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:fought for every secon🍸d on the Terminillo mountain finish to keep ꧒his overall hopes alive and also dug deep to ensure he finished with the lead group after the testing ‘Muri' stage to Fermo on Sunday.

Pinot gai�♏�ned six bonus seconds on Dennis thanks to finishing behind stage winner Peter Sagan in Fermo but Dennis is convinced he can make up the difference in Tuesday's time trial and move past the Frenchman and finish second overall.

Dennis' ability again𝓰st the clock is world class. His experience of winning the opening time trial at the 2015 Tour de France and targeting the Hour Record on the track should play hugely in his favour. Second overall for the talented Australian would be an excellent result and also boost his confidence in view of the Giro d'Italia. If van Garderen's form remains an enigma, BMC could be tempted to give him a bigger leadership role at the Giro d'Italia. With so much on line at BMC, it will be equally as fascinating to see how van Garderen performs in the time trial.

"It's all down the time trial, to try to move up as much as possible. First is perhaps out of reach but I'm trying to🐻 move up from third to second for sure," Dennis said.

"T🦹here's a good chance I should have a good ride. I'm aiming for the best possible result. I'll first go for the stage win and then worry about hopefully moving up on the GC".

Pinot has improved in time trials in recent times and finished 19th in 2015. He was 33 slower than Cancellara and could lose a similar amount of time to Dennis. He risks losing his post on the final podium to Roglic, Dumoulin or even Thomas. It would be tragic for the passionate Frenchman but especially well deserved for Thomas. The Welshman kept his head during a difficult week for Team Sky on and off the bike. He lost 1:20 to Quintana after three strange front wheel failures hit Team Sky in the opening team time tr🧸ial. He bounced back to win stage 2 and proved to be the strongest b🐷ehind Quintana on the climb of Terminillo.

Roglic was the surprise winner of the Giro d'Italia time trial in 2016 and surprised again by 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning the recent Volta ao Algarve ahead of Michal Kwiatkows🀅ki (Team Sky). He could surprise again if he can produce a similar performance on Tuesday aftern🙈oon.

Dumoulin's performances have been erratic this week✨ but a podium spot is not beyond the tall Dutchman and would confirm that his power and aggression can be effective on Italian climbs and Italian roads.

For Mollema, Spilak and Castroviejo, the time trial will be about coming away from Tirreno-Adriatico with confidence for the Giro🤪 d'Italia.

The final time trial stage really will be the race of truth after a week of intense racing b💛etween the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic.