Tour de France: Adam Yates ready for Mont Ventoux showdown
Orica-Bi💞keExchan꧙ge remains in second place overall after windy stage into Montpellier
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Adam Yates has so far held his own against some much more experienced riders during this year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. With the race now past its halfway point, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Orica-BikeExchange rider sits just behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome iཧn the GC and has a firm grip on the white jersey in the young rider classification.
Yates will resume battle in the overall and the young riders' competition when the Tour de France returns to the mountains during stage 12. When it does, he will be riding the, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:albeit shortened, Mont Ventoux climb for the first time in🥃 his career but doesn't appear too concerned with what he'll face.
"It's another mountain top finish, they're all pretty similar," he told Cyclingnews with a nonchalance that you wouldn't expect from someone who has never ridden Ventoux before. "This one's pretty famous but I've never been up so I can't really describe anything about it. We'll just try to get stuck in. If I have good legs, then I will try to do something, if n🎃ot then I'll just try to hold on and save any seconds I can. That's all there is to it."
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wednesday's stage to Montpellier proved to be a more important day than one would have previously expected when looking at the profile. As the wind battered the course, and the race blew to pieces, several of the GC contenders found themselves in trouble. Yates made it through relatively unscathed, losing 16 seconds to Froome after the race leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:escaped up the road in the final 10 kiloꦍmetres. He 🌼said that his teammates had been very careful to ke🔜ep him out of trouble.
"It was pretty hectic, but it was ok because I had all the guys aroᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚund me from the team, especially Mat Hayman and Chris Juul-Jenson," said Yates. "As soon as you went into the wind and there was a slight little breeze, they were there riding. I was happy there, and I got through fine, onto tomorrow and a mountain top finish."
Yates said that he was not surprised that Froome had decided to go on what was expected to be a sprint finish. "If you have the opportunity to a💞ttack you do it," said Yates. "It's the Tour de France. You don't get a stage for free or seconds for free.🔯 If you get an opportunity to gain some time, then you take it, and he keeps doing it."
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