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The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Amgen Tour of California played out like a race with a saw-tooth profile for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dimension Data's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lachlan Morton, as the 25-year-old Australian suffered a series of peaks and valleys only to emerge on top 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:after the final stage in Pasadena.

Morton hit his first high point during stage 2 on Monday, making it into the group of four general classificati✱on contenders who escaped the field on Mt. Hamilton and then stuck their advantage to the line.

Morton moved into fourth overall during the stage🧜 and held the lead in the Best Young Rider classification, a jersey he'd wear until disaster stuck during the stage 6 time trial at Big Bear Lake.

A mechanical straight out of he start house sunk his result and dropped him to ninth overall, moving him down to third among the young riders behind Tao Geoghegan Ha꧟rt (Team Sky) and Sam Oomen (Team Sunweb).

But Morton was having none of it on Saturday, making the eventually successful move and then helpi♎ng power it to the line.

"Obviously it was disappointing yesterday having the mechanical," Morton said. "And so I felt I had to pay back the team for all the work they did for me this week. So I just let it han💖g out and it went to the finish, so that was pretty sweet."

Morton finished fourth on the stage, but the group's advantage over the much-reduc♓ed field pushed him back to the top of the Best Young Rider leader board and into the 💮custom, graffiti artist-designed jersey.

It was a nice reward♍ after a week of hard work for the rider who is beginning to blossom again during his second chance at cycling's top tier.

"It feels good," Morton said when asked about being back at the front of WorldTour🐻 races.

"It's been a little while coming, I guess, but Team Dimension Data is the perfect fit for me. It's an amazing cause and amazing group of people, so it's like family for 𒁏me, which ꦯis important."

Morton will ride his Tour of California success back to Europe, where he'll compete next at the Tour de Suisse. After that he'll begin building up to his firs🍒t-ever Grand Tour at the Vuelta a Espana in September, putting a nice cap on his first year back in the WorldTour.

"They've put a lot of faith in me," Morton said of Dimension Data. "They let me live atꦗ my home in Boulder [Colorado], and I try to repay that faith wit✅h some results. All is good."