168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alejandro Valverde will take to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España start in Salinas de Torrevieja as a nominal co-leader of Movistar, but rather than mount an overall 🧔challenge, the 2009 winner will target stage victories at the year's final Grand Tour.

With reigning champion Simon Yates absent from the start list, Valverde's status as world champion means he'll wear the number one on his back. There's no pressure for him to fight for the top places in the general classification, how✅ever, even if he might end up there🌳 or thereabouts.

. "For Alejandro, what we would like is that he has ꦉa good time on the bike, especially this year with the [rainbow] jersey."

Perhaps more than any other team, Movistar have becom♎e known for bringing multiple leaders to Grand Tours and letting the road take care of things from there.

As they did at the past two editions of the Tour de France, the Spanish team has once again gone with three team leaders in the shape of Valverde, Giro d'Italia winner Richard Carapaz, and 2016 Vuelta cha🍌mpion Nairo Quintana, with the latter two men both racing their final Grand Tour for the team before moving to Team Ineos and Ark&eacu🍒te;a-Samsic, respectively.

At the Tour, where Mikel Landa took Carapaz's place in the triumvirate🌳, the plan was largely the same – for Valverde to target stage wins rath♉er than ride for overall position. He ended up in ninth overall – his 18th Grand Tour top ten placing.

Arrieta conceded that it's tough for a rider of Valverde's quality to 'disconnect' from the general cla𓄧ssification, citing the Tour as an example. The take is that, even if he wanted to, he couldn't concede time on purpose in order to focus on individual stage wins.

"It will be difficult for us to disconnec💎t him from the general classification," said Arrieta. "At the Tour that was the idea, and at the end due to circumstances and because of his quality, he took a top ten.

"The stage꧑s will come on days when you arrive with a group of favourites. He doesn't have pressure to race to the stage final and ജthat's that."

It was a sentiment echoed by fellowꦆ DS, Pablo Lastras – another ex-Movistar rider who on🐼ce rode in service of Valverde for the Spanish team.

"Alejandro's objective will be to have a good time and win some stages, as he did in 2018," he told Marca. "The way he is, he will have a great Vuelta."

How Valverde's 'free role' at the race will work with the GC ambitions of Carapaz and Quintana is as yet unclear, though it's certain that the team will be looking to avoid a repeat of the confusion on the road at the𓆏 Tour.

Arrieta added that Valverde's role wi♛ll involve w🙈ork for the team's GC duo, in combination with going for his own opportunities.

"If it's the case [that he can race to the stage finish], then he can go ahead," he s⛄aid. "At other times he can support and that wouldn't be bad either. But Nairo and Carapaz are also working for the overall, so he will be more ♔relaxed."

With his year in t💦he rainbow jersey almost over, Valverde's quest for glory in what will be his last race before a de🏅fence of his title at the Yorkshire Worlds.

For the 39-year-old, a 2019 with four wins is something of a disappointment, compared to 14 last season. How his stage hunting will mesh with the ambitions of his co-leaders, though🅰, remains to be seen.