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After keeping their noses out of the wind on stage 10, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mikel Landa believes that he and his fellow Movistar leaders, Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde, will have a chance to really take on the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France on Wednesday's stage to La Rosière.

The🔥 ascending will start almost immediately on the 108-kilometre day, which has packed in four classified climbs, including the 17.6-kilometre first category summit finish. The short, yet relentless, nature of the parcours will make it much harder to control, s🦄ays Landa, and therefore favour the Spanish team as they to try and put a cat among the pigeons.

"Tomorrow's stage should be better for us, as it's one where it's difficult to keep such a strong group together and could be good for us three," Landa told the press as he warmed down outside his team bus in Le Grand Bornand.  "It will be already a difficult stage, with some moves from the fi🍌rst climb, so we'll see how we can manage our efforts over the route."

Landa enjoyed an uneventful day on the bike, which will be a welcome break to him after he hit the deck quite hard during Sunday's stage to Roubaix. The Spaniard had been drinking from a bidon when he ran over a drain cover and lost control of his bike. He lost just seven seconds, after a mighty effort from his team to bring him back, but suffered a lot of abrasions as a resul🌳t of the incident. On the rest day, Landa said that he was back to normal but said on Tuesday t𒊎hat he had some pain in his back.

"After the Roubaix stage and the rest day, and the crash on Sunday, I think the best thing for me was to relax a bit and save myself," he said. "My back hurt a bit at the༺ end of the stage, but I think it's just normal after such a hit; my legs feel good. Sky set a very hard pace, probably trying to defend their position, and I think no one really was willing to burn themselves out by launching a real attack in this situation."

Heading into the second of a tryptic of mountain stages, Valverde is currently the best placed of the Movistar trio in the overall classification. The elder statesme🙈n of the GC riders is currently 11 seconds up on Landa, who is on the same time as Froome. There were a few moments of stress for Valverde when he had issued with his gearing as Dan Martin (UAE Team Emirates) attacked over the top of the Colombiére, but that was it.

"Things were pretty much under control for us, we always the three of us inside the general🌳 classification group," said Valverde. "In the final kilometre of the Colombiére, I was experiencing some pr🌟oblems with my gearing, the chain was stuck and I had to get it back on so that I could get back to the group."

Looking ahead to Wednesday, Valverde thinks that the stage could go two ways – an explosion in the general classification, or nothing much at a꧑ll.

"It's a series of three difficult days in the Alps and tomorrow's stage is so short and i𝔍ntense that it could see big firework🗹s or nothing at all, we'll see what we can do," he said.