BMC’s veteran 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Hincapie said his teammate Cadel Evans’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France win today justified their♛ decisi💞on to join the small, but ambitious team back in 2010.

Hincapie, who has now taken part in a record-equalling 16 Tours – tied with Dutch legend Joop Zoetemelk – has been part of nine teams which have won the yellow je🍌rsey with three separate riders: Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador and now (if♐ all goes smoothly on Sunday) Evans.

Hincapie said people questioned his decision to join the BMC team w🔴hen it first set out to make an impact on the European scene in 2010 because it was a ♛relatively small outfit that wasn’t guaranteed an entry to major races.

Asked if it was one of his favourite Tours, Hincapie told Cyclingnews: "They’re all so different and so special.

"This one has been as part of a sort of new team and everybody questioned my decision to come here – ‘why you going to such a small team?’ And Cadel too, imagine him joining it to now, winning the biggest race in the world – it’s 🌃quite satisfyꩵing."

Hincapie, 38, said it had been a tough edition. "It’s been a very, very stressful, tough Tour, fighting for position every day and doing mor🎉e work than we’ve ever done. We knew Cadel had a chance and we wanted to give him every opportunity to make that happen.

"Really, the lowest point was se꧒eing Cadel have a technical problem yesterday. ♉All of a sudden we went from an awesome situation to ‘what the –’ and we had to go full gas to keep it at a minimum to a position where Cadel could close it down."

Hincapie also suggested he will be back next year. "The way he [Evans] went this year, yeah🅘, I might have to do another one next year."

If he lines up in Liège in 2012, Hincapi🦄e will set a new record of 17 starts. However, the rider from the 1970s and 80s never abandoned so Hincapie will need to finish in Paris to equal Zoetemelk’s all-time completion record of 16 Tours.