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After finishing eighth in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, Spain's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alejandro Valverde has two races  that are definitely on his calendar for now: the Clásica San Sebastian and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España. But although he has won bꦦoth in the past, the Movistar rider says he will not be doing either "with any kind of pressure to produce r🌺esults."

"I will do them both like I did them in 2012" - where he took 26th in San Sebastian and second overall in the Vuelta - "simply going in ther💫e in good condition, but to see what I can do," Valverde told Cyclingnews as he waited outside the team hotel in Paris for for a taxi to take him to the airport.

"With what I've achieved so far this season, and what💯 I've helped the team do in the Tour de France, I think I have done everything that has been asked of me. Now it🔥's just going to be a case of seeing what more I can get, but without pressure."

"The Colombians [Rigoberto Uran and Sergio Henao - Sky], Joaquim [Rodriguez - Katusha] and Nibali (Astana) will be the main rivals. We'll have to see i🅺f [defending champion] Alberto [Contador - Saxo-Tinkoff] decides to come too."

Valverde even tried briefly to get in a breakaway on the Champs Elysées on⛦ Sunday, "although we pretty much knew it was mis🌠sion impossible. It was a nice way to round off the race."

"In any case, we've really had a brilꦦliant Tour, with Nairo [Quintana], the stage wins and so on. If I hadn't had that puncture on the day of the cross-winds, it might have been two of us on the final podium, but that's the way things work out at times in cycling."

The Vuelta a España, cycling's third grand tour, starts on August 24th in Galicia, with a 27 kilometre team time trial. Tﷺhe equivalent event was won by Movistar last year, with Alejandro Valverde moving briefly into the lead three stages later. Will iit be the same this time round?