2014 Tour of Oman, Feb. 18-22 (2.HC)

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JRanton

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I agree about Purito's chances... Much better than up the long drag (whatever the gradient is).
But is there, currently, a type of climb on which we can say Froome is disadvantaged?
Based on what we've seen in last couple of seasons, only an effort prolonged through couple of weeks racing can trouble him.
Not a climb by itself.
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I think the evidence is there from 2013. Lost Tirreno on the crazily steep gradients and from what I can remember the only other time he got beaten (gapped) on a serious climb last year (outside of the last week of the Tour) was on the very steep Green Mountain by Purito.
 
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JRanton said:
I think the evidence is there from 2013. Lost Tirreno on the crazily steep gradients and from what I can remember the only time he got beaten on a serious climb last year (outside of the last week of the Tour) was on the very steep Green Mountain by Purito.
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Yes, it looks like he struggles keeping sub-max, anaerobic, peak. That's enough to lose T-A or some stage, but still not enough to dislodge him in a GT.
He can lose on the Green Mountain, that's certain. We've seen it last year, already.
He looks sharpened this year, though.
 
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Sagan's kerb hop in stage 4
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straightjacker said:
Yes, it looks like he struggles keeping sub-max, anaerobic, peak. That's enough to lose T-A or some stage, but still not enough to dislodge him in a GT.
He can lose on the Green Mountain, that's certain. We've seen it last year, already.
He looks sharpened this year, though.
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I'm not sure. Purito doesn't think Froome is as lean and fit as he was last year at Oman and he'll have seen him close up in the bunch.
 
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JRanton said:
I think it's much easier to blow the Purito tank on 7.5%-8% as opposed to 10%+.
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When we say about lengthy steep sections it doesn't matteer. The only thing I can agree with is that on a climb of 20km 6-7% av. Purito would've had less chances than he has today.
 
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Most posters here seem to suggest a two-man race (Froome vs. Purito), but I don't think it's that simple. The guys are very close. You still have Nibali, Uran, Kreuziger, JvDB, Pozzovivo, Gesink, Tejay and König up there.

I think the chance of an outsider winning is greater than a Froorito victory.
 
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Purito ftw! He takes ten seconds on the nearest rivals. The chasing group will consist of Froome, Kreuziger and Koning. Nibali fifth, Uran sixth.
 
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Fzotrlool said:
Purito ftw! He takes ten seconds on the nearest rivals. The chasing group will consist of Froome, Kreuziger and Koning. Nibali fifth, Uran sixth.
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In form, J-Rod would crush Froome et al here, but with two GTs on the program I can't see him being in top shape. Might just have enough in the tank anyway. We shall see.
 
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tune in to twitter so would been nice for oman to do some sort of final km coverage or I am sure some might have been paid for saturday morning climb finish

one side note, crwods in oman don't look that bad in the towns, and oman looks lovely
 
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jens_attacks said:
yep looking at yesterday's highlights with froome dropping everyone out of his wheel, can't see him losing this.
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froome didn't drop uran. uran in fact closed a tremendous gap in the climb to froome
 
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