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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España leader 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome (Team Sky) has said that a rule introduced experimentally in the 2017 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France, whereby late splits in the peloton only count when there are gaps of more than three seconds, should be usedꦡ in a🌟ll races, including the Vuelta.

This summer the Tour de France saw a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:rule introduced which meant that rat🌞her than the usual one-second gaౠp counting between late splits in the peloton, gaps had to be more than three seconds. Froome argued, in his leader's press conference after stage 4 of the Vuelta, that this should be the case in more races than just the Tour.

"I for one feel that having the three-second rule, as we did in the Tour de France, made things a lot safer. It's so൩mething I'd like to see come back in, especially to finishes like toda𒊎y that are so technical and dangerous," Froome said.

"I believe it makes the race at the front a lot safer. No one wants the GC guys to be up there sprinting. The sprinters don't want us up there. We don't want to be there, but 𒆙obviously we have to be up there.

"So in my opinion, we should bring back the three-second rule, and all of the r⛎iders I've spoken to are of the same opinion. That's maybe one for the commisssaires and the UCI."

Cyclingnews understands that the UCI is currently rev📖iewing the rul🌺e.

As for leading the Vuelta so early on, Froome argued that in general it was "always better to race from t♉he front, beܫcause I like the idea of being in a more defensive position. Today was obviously all about that in the final. It was quite a tricky run-in. My team-mates did a great job of keeping me up there. With the risks of splits, it was important to stay up front.

"As it stands there are♒ a lot guys still 💞in contention, Esteban [Chaves] is still very strong strong on the climbs, and Vincenzo [Nibali] winning the stage is obviously in great shape as well."

Froome agreed that his team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Wout Poels, who had come into the race with higꦿh hopes of racing as Sky's Plan B, h⛄ad been unhappy with his own performance in Andorra, losing 1:39 to Froome and the other favourites.

"It's fair to say he's a bit disappointed not to be right up there at the sharp end. But just going on previꦆous experience with Wout in the past in Grand Tours, he always rides into the race, and in the second and third week he's always really strong. I've got no doubt he will get back to his best pretty soon. It was also that he suffered a bit with the heat as well maybe. But hopefully he will get used 🏅to that and improve as the race goes on."

Froome, meanwhile, will tackle another summit finish on Wednesday. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:The final climb is a short, punchy and very steep three-kilometre third-category climb to the Santa Lucia Hermitage, one with ramps of up to 20 percent, a middle section averaging around 15 percent, and never previously used before in the race. It is preceded by a 'medium mountain' stage, with three second-category ascents and over 2,700 metres o𒈔f vertical climbing.

Froome said that – given the Vueꦉ🐼lta had not tackled it before – he had no idea yet what the Ermita Santa Lucia climb would actually be like.

"I'll study it a bit more this eveniඣng, and we'll do everything we ca🎃n to protect the red jersey at this point," he promised.