Chris Froome (Sky) confirmed after a fast and fraught stage 16 that he will continue battling for overall victory in the Vuelta a España despite losing a large chunk of time on leader Nairo Quintana (Movistar) in Sunday's stage in the Pyrenees.
"I'm still in second place, which obviously I'm happy about, but I am a lot further back than I was going into yesterday, so obviously that was a big blow," Froome told a small group of reporters after stage 16.
"But that's cycling, things can change in the blink of an eye and I've got to keep fighting to the end. Of course I'm not just going to give up now."
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Asked directly if he could still win the Vuelta, Froome said: "It's less possible than it was before but it doesn't mean I'm going to stop trying."
Now 3:37 off the overall lead, Froome and Sky certainly showed themselves to be in no mood to throw in the towel in the closing kilometres of the stage to Peñiscola, regularly massing at the front in order, as Froome said later, to be sure there was no repeat of Sunday's ambush attack.
"There was a lot of talk about potential crosswinds and you could see all the teams were thinking about that," Froome said. "It was quite a nervous peloton, everyone was really on guard today and didn't want to see a repeat of yesterday certainly.
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