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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alberto Contador has said that Nairo Quintana can be considered “almost as big a favourite" in the upcoming 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France as defending champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Chris Froome.

“I think Froome stands out as the top contender, for sure, and has a very strong team, but Nairo’s team and his ability to finish Grand To🧸urs make him almost as big a favourite,” Contador said in a press conference at his Tour de France team hotel set deep in rural Normandy.

Contador, sitting between his press officer and top Tinkoff sports director Steve De Jongh, foll🦄owed up that argument by firmly rejecting another journalist's idea thaℱt the Tour's GC battle could be reduced to a two-way fight between himself and Chris Froome.

"That would be the wrong way of looking at it. I know I’m in a good condition t🅷o fight for the Tour, I’ve done it several times and I can be pretty confident of the way I analyse how I’m feeling. But although it’s a good route for me, it will definitely take 25 days before we know for sure what the outcome of this Tour is.” The difficult third week, of course, reinforces Conta🔜dor’s argument about ‘waiting and seeing’.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:As he had told Cyclingnews on Tuesday, Contador insisted that he had yet to sign any kind of contract for 2017 and beyond, althoug꧅h he recognised that “it would probably be a two-year deal" that he'll sign with Tinkoff set to fold at the end of the year. Recently published stories in the Spanish media continue to insist that Trek is his most likely destination but as yet nothing has been confirmed. In any case, Contador said on Thursday: “What I’m looking forward to right now is racing the Tour for a sponsor who’s been with us since 2012.”

Meanwhile, the question of how Sagan and Contador will race together in Tinkoff’s line-up was raised by several journalists, although in fact last year there were no is🍃sues between the two riders when they raced the Tour together. Contador confirmed that he was “really lucky to be sharing a team with Peter [Sagan], because we are very compatible. Peter is the rider with the most innate class, I think, that i’ve ever racedꦆ with in my career. He will be a key component at a tactical level and apart from that, I’m very proud to have him in my team. It’s a privilege.”

As for the Tour route, Contador argued that it will be “open until the last moment, and in fact I consider that last stage the hardest. It’s one of the hardest Tours in years, and that means recovery iꦓs going to be the most important factor of all.”