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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mitchelton-Scott team manager Matt White has insisted that the team will battle on for victory at the Giro d'Italia despite the team's co-leaderඣ for the general clas𓃲sification, Esteban Chaves, having a disastrous stage 10, and losing over 25 minutes.

Chaves was se⛄cond overall and the longs𒆙tanding leader in the 2016 Giro d'Italia, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结🏅果:third in the Vuelta a España the𒈔 same year. Chaves' 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:victory on Mount Etna this year, and 168澳洲5最新开奖结🍸果:his strong performa🥂nce on the Gran Sasso, had placed the Colombian in second p🌟osition overall behind teammate Simon Yates.

And although Yates remains t﷽he race l✤eader after stage 10, losing Chaves as a GC option represents a serious blow to the Australian team.

Speaking at a point before Chaves had crossed the finish line and any communication to find out what had happened with the Colombian racer was possible, White said he was at a loss as to why Ch🤪aves had lost so much time.

As White pointed out, although the situation limits their options and is somewhat of a setback, with just 🍰one leader Mitchelton-Scott are now in an identical position to most of the othe⛦r teams fighting for the Giro d'Italia.

"That's bike racing, isn't it? It happens. It wasn't 🌌what we expected, it's an intermediate mountain stage, and Esteban was third on one of the hardest mountain stages just 48 hours ago. I don't know what happenꦅed, but I'm assuming it's allergies," White told a small group of journalists as he waited outside the team bus near the finish for Chaves to come across the line.

"He's going to be very disapp💫ointed, as his general classification has gone out of the window," White added.

Pressed for more information, White continued, "I didn't know 💯anything. I stayed with the front group and left him with three guys."

Asked by one journalist if that was a lot of riders as support fo𓆉r Chaves, White bristled slightly and said, "We've got eight guys in the team, so it's not that har✅d to work out. They stopped working with 70 kilometres to go anyway."

The other factor that contributed to leaving three riders with Chaves, Whiඣte added, was that he thought that Chaves was simply having a bad moment – not, as it later emerged, a major loss of power in his legs.

"Roman Kreuziger was with him from the start, and then we told Sam Bewley to stop and wait at the top of the category 3 climb" – at kilometre 56 of the stage. "And then there was also C༒hristian Juul-Jensen. So we wanted to bring Esteban back; we thought it was a bad moment, and if he got to the back of the group, it'd be OK. But it didn't happen like that, and, eventually, we just pulled ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚoff the chase."

There was a point, White said, when it seemed as if Chaves' group would make it back on. However, as he pointed out, the time differences between the two groups radioed through to 🦄race followers seemed to vary wildly both on the TV coverage and🌞 in the team cars.

"It was tricky to know the time gaps," White said. "It c✱ame down to one minute at one stage but other key GC teams wanted to put the boot in, and they did."

On top of that, the stage was one of the most difꦫficult outside the main days in the mountains, making it very difficult terrain to recover timeꩲ lost.

"It was non-stop racing – the longest stage of the Giro, and straight after the rest-day. With 3,500 to 4,000 metres of vertical climbing, it was a toug💛h day."

Overall, White insisted, Mitchelton-Scott's strategy🃏 re𝕴mains the same.

"Esteban's chances for GC are g🐻one, which mean🃏s I've got one very handy helper for Simon when it matters."

There is one less card to play in the Giro GC battle, but, as White said, "We're only back in the same position [with one leader] as every othe🌠r team now. 🐈Nothing's changed: we're still trying to win the Giro."