Valverde: That's a confirmation I did things right for the past month

Alejandro Valverde at Liege-Bastogne-Liege

Alejandro Valverde at Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Ilness forced Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) to change his calendar in the run-up to the Tour de France, skipping the nine-day Tour de Suisse for the more low-key Route d'Occitanie, where the Spaniard made the most of his re-tooled schedule by taking a stage win and the overall at the four-day French race.

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