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This year's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France is yet to go according to the pre-race plan for Dutch squad 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vacansoleil-DCM and it appears things could get even worse. The team is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:still on the hu🌜nt for a new headline sponsor with reports that it requires a further 60-70 percent of its budget to remain at the WorldTour level. If the funds cannot be found the team may lཧook to drop to Professional Continental status in 2014.

"I 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:promised ♒the r𓄧iders some news by the Tour", team manager Daan Luyckx told . "But it was not good news. I have given them the hint to speak with their managers and to teams but also asked them to wait until August 1st before sig♊ning ♚elsewhere," he added in regard to th🦋e date set by the UCI for the signing of contracts for the coming season.

The WorldTour outfit came into the race with last year's thওird-place finisher from the Giro d'Italia in the form of Thomas De Gendt but so far the winner atop of the Tourmalet from the 2012 Italian race is yet to show any real climbing form.

The team's best-place GC rider, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout Poels is currently in 23rd and more than 13 minutes behind maillot jaune Chris Froome. Visibility has been plentiful throughout the first half of the three-week race with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juan Antonio Flecha and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lieuwe Westra prominent in the day's escapes whilst crowd favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Johnny Hoogerland appears to recovering after his nasty high-speed fall early in the race. Tour rookie Danny van Poppel caused heads to turn in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:opening stage of the race at just 19 when he finished third a๊nd has achieved a couple of top-ten placings since. The all important victorౠy however, is still missing.

The Tour ✅is one of the most opportune times to reassess a rider's movements for the coming season but the Dutch outfit will hope to turn things around entering the second half🏅 of the race.

"We are still looking for 60 to 70 percen🍷t of the budget for a World Tour team," said Luyckx. "That's the value of a title sponsor. Bianchi wants to increase its input but not as title sponsor. If we only get only 2 to 3 million euros we will have to take a step back to Pro Continental."