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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Trek-Segafredo finished the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2019 Giro d'Italia in Verona on Sunday having taken the blue mountains jersey through 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giulio Ciccone and fifth place overall thanks to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bauke Mollema, calling the raceꦛ "one of its best Grand✤ Tours in the team's history".

The US WorldTour team – which secured Richie🙈 Porte's signat🎃ure for the 2019 season, with the Australian now set to lead the team at the upcoming 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France – is also rumoured ওto 🦩be taking on Giro runner-up Vincenzo Nibali from Bahr🧜ain-Merida for next year, which could mean that the best is yet to come from th⭕e squad for Grand Tours.

But, for now, Trek-Segafredo ar🀅e content to bask in the post-Giro afterglow o𓂃f a top-five finish, a win in one of the major jersey competitions and Ciccone's stage win in Ponte di Legno.

"We ac🐻hieved all our goals, with a stage win, the top five, and, on top of that, we had the mountains jersey for the whole Giro," pointed out sports director Kim Andersen on the team's website.

Ciccone cleverly took the blue jersey on the opening time trial stage in Bologna, where whichever rider was fastest from the bott🌞om to the top of the final climb up to the finish was to be named the 2019 Giro's first 'king of the mountains'. The 24-year-old Italian measured his effort through the first part of the stage in order to give it everything on the climb.

Although that meant that he only finished 64th on the stage, it was enough to take what would be his first blue jersey – and far from his last, it turned out, as Ciccone then wore it for the rest of the Giro, save for a single stage, having temporarily handed it to te💧ammate Gianluca Brambilla following stage 12 before re-taking it the next day and making it his with the stage win on stage 16 from Lovere to Ponte di Legno.

"Today was very emotional," Ciccone said of finishing the final time trওial in Verona's amphitheatre in the blue jersey on Sunday.

"When I came into the arena, it🍨 was incredible, and very emotional for me. I'm very happy with this Giro, as it was very, very important for me to finally make this big jump in my progress. I'm also very happy for the team, as we were a strong group, and I think we did a super Giro, with Bauke finishing in the top five, which was the top goal for the team," he said.

Mollema said he was thrilled to have achiev🐻ed the goal of finishing in the top five, both on a personal level and in terms of what it means for the team, which ahead of the Giro had only taken three wins this season.

"It's only the second time that I've finished in the top five ♉at a Grand Tour," Mollema said, having taken fourth at the Vuelta a Espana in 2011 – but also sixth at the 2013 Tour de France, and seventh at the 2015 Tour and seventh again at the 2017 Giro.

"It was a great Giro for the team, winning a stage, winning the mountains jersey, and th♔en taking the t🍰op 5 in the GC, so it couldn't be better," he said.

The 32-year-old Dut🥂chman moved into the top six for the first time after stage 12 to Pinerolo, and then into fourth overall – albeit for a day – a🐼fter a strong ride to Ceresole Reale the next day.

He then faltered a little on stage 14 to Courmayeur – whe♏re stage winner Richard Carapaz (Movistar) truly set himself up for his eventual overall Giro victory – with Mollema losing well over two minutes to all the other favourites, but then moved up to fifth overall following stage 16 to Ponte di Legno, and managed to protect his position from there all the way to the finish on Sunday.

"I'm happy with my level," he continued. "We had a great atmosphere in t✨he te⛎am from day one until the end, and that really helped.

"I think when the at🌸mosphere is good in the team, you see that everyone is even more motivated to work together and that leads to great results," said Mollema, who will now recover before building up again for the Tour de France, where he'll ride in the service of Porte.