2016 Tour of Oman (2.HC) February 16-21

[lemon cheese cake]

Re:

Hey, could someone post the Sky line up?

/duck

Sky arent riding this year.

 

[Vesica]

Dear mods, can you make Oman, Algarve and Ruta del Sol into the sticky ones? thanks in advance.

 

[manafana]

Interesting, but organisers are moans after last years stage which was rightly called off. Now threatening to pull out, live tv coverage not allowed "for money" when really its more likely political to have time to edit pictures

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

5km to go, 18 riders in the lead and Porte and Kristoff are dropped according to official twitter

 

[Ricco']

Bobby Jungels wins with an attack in the last 2k's.

Super Bob!

 

[Alexandre B.]

http://www.procyclingstats.com/race.php?id=164109
1. Jungels

2. Pauwels (6")

3. Bardet (8")
4. Boasson Hagen (8")
5. Dumoulin (8")
6. Van Avermaet (8")
7. Rui Costa (8")
8. Rebellin (8")
9. De Tier (8")
10. Nibali (8")

 

[Ricco']

Porte lost more than 3 minutes today.

 

[DBotero]

WTF Porte at 3.24 Good win for Jungels.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Lol Porte

 

[johnymax]

Lol Mario Costa. I knew it was a mistake. Maybe it was Faria da Costa. Kirby should know

Congrats to Jungels! Porte surprisingly bad.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Clever move from Porte -> instead of being god-like in one-week stage races and shitty in GTs, he does the reverse this season.

 

[Rollthedice]

Well, the stage profile looked like a poor man's hilly classics, top ten proves it. Maybe LRP has no clue how to ride these stages or maybe he's had one of those days though they usually come later and always in a GT.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

No I think Porte will refind his 2011 climbing legs

 

[classicomano]

LRP still as inconsistent as ever.

 

[Velolover2]

Dan Martin for tomorrow?

It looks like too hard for EBH and GVA but you never know. Both can be pretty good in one-week races.

 

[BigMac]

Porte warned them to get off his wheel, but they didn't, so he just coasted.

 

[dacooley]

Re:

Well, the stage profile looked like a poor man's hilly classics, top ten proves it. Maybe LRP has no clue how to ride these stages or maybe he's had one of those days though they usually come later and always in a GT.

you are always so gentle when talking about sky.

 

[Max Rockatansky]

Re:

Lol Mario Costa. I knew it was a mistake. Maybe it was Faria da Costa. Kirby should know

Mario's name is Faria da Costa as well.

 

[BigMac]

Re: Re:

Well, the stage profile looked like a poor man's hilly classics, top ten proves it. Maybe LRP has no clue how to ride these stages or maybe he's had one of those days though they usually come later and always in a GT.

you are always so gentle when talking about sky.

Unless Porte crashed there's really no excuse for this result.

 

[HelloDolly]

Little Rich is saving himself for the Tour de France

 

[pink_jersey]

Van den Broeck in the same time with the other favourites. 4th place in TdF is already secured.

 

[Velolover2]

I'm really looking forward to see if Dumoulin can stay with the best on the wide roads of Green Mountain. Perhaps even win the stage.

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

Well, the stage profile looked like a poor man's hilly classics, top ten proves it. Maybe LRP has no clue how to ride these stages or maybe he's had one of those days though they usually come later and always in a GT.

you are always so gentle when talking about sky.

I thought TLMRP was on BMC now. Doesn't matter who he rides for it seems. He's just not top shelf consistently. Occasionally yes.

 

[DBotero]

“It was quite a tough stage as it was fast and quite fast. It wasn’t really unexpected that I lost time. I didn’t really come with any ambitions apart from trying to get through the race and trying to get some form out of it. It’s a great race for getting good kilometers in the legs and for me the big target next is Paris-Nice,” Porte explained.
“I’ll be taking it day by day as we said from the start.”

Looks like this one wasn't on his radar after all

 

[Velolover2]

No video recap of the stage?