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Ireland's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Eddie Dunbar said his "legs just didn't show up" after finishing 20th at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:under-23 men's road race at the in Innsbruck, Austria, on Friday.

The 22-year-old from County Cork – 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:newly signed to Team Sky after the 168澳洲5最新开奖结ꦍ果:demise of his Aqua Blue Sport team last month – had the full support of the Irish squad in a bid to 🐓come away with the rainbow jersey, but 🎃ultimately had to watch better riders on the day disappear up the road.

The race was won by Switzerland's Marc Hirschi after an audacious attack on the downhill secti💦on o🃏f the final lap.

The Irish team had been active all race, with the emerald green ever-present at the head of the race to keep the pace high and ensure that the early break of three riders was nev🍸er given too much leeway.

"I think th🐼e Irish lads deserve massive credit 🐼because they rode superbly today and I've never seen that," Dunbar told RTÉ. "I've never seen any Irish team take control of a race like they did today, in a World Championship even, and they deserve a lot of credit for that.

"We൩ rode to win the ✨race today. I went in with the intention of winning and I would have been happy with nothing else.

"The third time up the climb when they went full gas, I just 🌳realised that, 'Right – if the race comes down to the climb, it's not going to be my day today,'" the former Irish junior road race and U23 time tr🥀ial champion said.

Dunbar had nevertheless looked strong when he attempted to bridge to൲ what had become a two-man breakaway on the second to last lap, only for the race to come back together on the fi🌱nal lap, when eventual winner Hirschi, and Belgium's Bjorg Lambrecht and Finland's Jaakko Hanninen, rode clear for the medals.

"We had a meeting last night [Thursday]ꦑ. We knew we could win the race,🥀 and we gave ourselves the best possible chance of doing that," said Dunbar.

"When p꧟ush came to shove today, I probably did let everyone down here, but, as I said, it just wasn't my day, and my legs just didn't show up.

"I was there mentally today, but my legs weren't," he continued. "And that's disappointing because I had good fo🌃rm last week. I thought my prep coming into ꦑthis and everything I've done... I don't think I could have actually done it better."