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At the end of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France's first 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:long time trial in Besançon, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Fabian Cancellara predicted a tough remaining two weeks for Team Sky and questioned the British squad's strategy to defend the maillot jaune so far from Paris.

"Chapeau to the results," sa🧜id the Swiss time trial specialist after he was beaten into third by the British team's duo of Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome on the 41.5km stage. "When you see how Sky was born and how tꦚhey are performing now – better and better – it shows that they've been working really hard. That's normal. It's the same as when we saw Tony Martin becoming better and better at time trialling; it's just a demonstration that the whole team is growing.

"They have a hard Tour de France now for sure because Bradley has said they will🎃 not throw it (the yellow jersey) awayᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ or give it away, but now there are hard mountain stages and yeah, I think we will see them pulling a lot."

The 31-year-old Swiss pointed to Sky's dogged defence of the yellow jersey on yesterday's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:tough stage 8 which saw the team pulling hard to neut🌄ralise breaks for the first 80km which ultimately leftꦉ Wiggins isolated on the final climb and descent.

"We saw they defended the jersey really well. In my opinion I would d﷽o it differently but I am not a sports director. We look at our own things," added Cancellara, who won his fourth Tour de France prologue in Liège [and his fifth opening stage including the 15km time trial in Monaco in 2009].

Cancellara said he was impressed with the performance of Froome. "The problem is they have Froome and Wig💜gins and I think it will be hard to destroy Chris – probably it will be like four RadioShack riders and just Froome and Bradley in the mountains with people around. I don't know, maybe they do like a double time trial…. We know the strength from Sky."

But Cancellara dismissed the idea that the British squad had over-extended themselves and would pay in the remaining stages. Cancellara said Sky's belief in its strategy was crucial: "I think they've shown big strength and tꩲhey believe in what they are doing. This is w🔥hat counts."

He added that with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:RadioShack-Nissan riders crowded into tꦕhe top of the GC –four in the top 15 – he said the team was focusing on its own race🅠 in the two remaining weeks.