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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España leader Nairo Quintana (Movistar) says he is fully expecting all out attacks from at lea♑st some of his rivals in the upcoming two Pyrenean stages, but that "at the very least, I don't want to lose time to [arch-rival Chris] Froome (Sky)."

Speaking after the long and tediously uneventful trek by the peloton across the Basque Country and ꦆinto Movistar's home region of Navarre, the Colombian identified the stage to the Aubisque as the most important of the two days the Vuelta will spend in the high 𒈔mountains of the Pyrenees.

"It's going to be a very big day," Quintana, who leads Froome bܫy a scant 54 seconds,ꦯ told reporters.

"Many teams are going to be challenging, but finally it's those GC riders who will be on the atta🧔ck who are going to be the most dangerous and the ones I'll have to watch the closest. At the very least, my aim is not to lose t🦋ime on Froome."

The massive time gap between the peloton and the breakaway at the finish was slated by Spanish state broadcasting channel TVE commentator Carlos de Andres and saw one major Spanish radio channel quit ไits broadcasting of the ♋final segment of the race in a symbolic protest. But Quintana argued that after a hard first two weeks to the Vuelta "riders are very tired".

"Our strategy was to let a break go with riders who'd lost so much time that we didn't n🐻eed to work so much, because tomorrow I'll need a꧂ll the riders I can get to protect me on the Aubisque."

"Today there were more than 200 kilometres in the stage an𓆉d more than 3,500 metres of vertical climbing for everybody. It was no walk in the𓃲 park."

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