4th Muscat Classic (6 February) - 15th Tour of Oman (7-11 February)

[ingsve]

Really strong ride from Martin Tjötta. Taking full advantage of not being hindered in the crash.

Funny hearing the Omani commentators trying to say his name "Martin Teta"

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Amazing work from the electric Paul double, casually and systematically drawing in the double GT winner quintana. There's levels in this game nairoman. Double then continuing his infernal pace to set up Schmidt for the win . Grande Paul. I bet visma wish they had such a good rider.

Jayco must give him support.

 

[yaco]

This is a wide open GC. I have serious doubts about Schmid getting up green Mountain, although he should still get a top 5 on GC. Schmid was one of the two Jayco riders who went on the right hand side of the peleton, so he got an uninterrupted passage to the finish. That was an excellent ride by Double!

 

[Salvarani]

I didnt see P. Torres so maybe he got caught up in the crash

Finished 33rd in the end. Maybe had to help Yates, who then took off to close the gap to the first group.

 

[Samamba]

So after that big crash, there must've been a second crash in the part that went on the right side of the roundabout cause on the next images we get from that group there's only 13 riders left there...

EDIT: there indeed seems to have been an second crash straight after, a few Lotto riders were involved among others.

 

[Samamba]

If Yates isn't actually hurt he should still win this thing. Green Mountain suits him way better an today he simply lost to much energy coming back, he was still on a gap when they hit the climb and passed like 30 riders immediately, that costs a lot of energy.

 

[pastronef]

nice to see GreenEdge getting better. they had a bad Aussie season. but with Matthews first win and Schmidt form they are on a good track

 

[Devil's Elbow]

The top-10 looks like they took the 40 best climbers in the race and drew 10 out of a hat. Tjøtta and Bonnet in the top-5, really?

 

[Tim Cahill]

It’s about to be the most cobbled together lead out of all time for Yates if Torres is hurt. He will have to go from the bottom of Green Mountain with Monalo and Oliveira sprinting the first 500m like EF on finnestre.

 

[Cycling111]

He'll have to do the same as in Muscat: set the pace and see who can follow him. Green Mountain is too tough for Schmid.

 

[Samamba]

they had a bad Aussie season

Why do people keep saying that? Just cause they bottled their nationals? Schmid got 2nd in Down Under and 4th in Cadel Evans. If that's bad...

 

[Devil's Elbow]

It’s about to be the most cobbled together lead out of all time for Yates if Torres is hurt.

2015 Vuelta Dumoulin wants a word.

 

[yaco]

Why do people keep saying that? Just cause they bottled their nationals? Schmid got 2nd in Down Under and 4th in Cadel Evans. If that's bad...

Their Aussie season was fine, although they would have swapped one of their victories in Oman for Australia. On the other hand, their Alula Tour was disastrous. Checking results in OZ and the team hasn't won a stage of the TDU since 2023 which is a worry

 

[will-10]

nice to see GreenEdge getting better. they had a bad Aussie season. but with Matthews first win and Schmidt form they are on a good track

Schmid's Aussie season was so bad that he's number 1 in the world

 

[Cycling111]

Their race in Alula was a disaster, considering it's their sponsor's race.

 

[pastronef]

Schmid's Aussie season was so bad that he's number 1 in the world

ok, let's say worse than previous years? and also in Alula, the sponsor's race, they didn't have a great race. I'm very happy for Schmid form, and I really do hope Matthews, Double and co get better and better

 

[Cycling111]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2020840338555023790

View: https://x.com/i/status/2020840338555023790

 

[RedheadDane]

Visma having even worse luck in this race than UAE had in TDU.

 

[Ulle97]

Nairo attack

Delighted to see Quintana at the front and riding well. Still capable of getting a big stage win this season.

 

[Cycling111]

From what little I've seen of today's stage, it looks like it's entirely on a four-lane highway. They've just switched to a two-lane highway.
Two riders are in the breakaway with a one-minute lead.

All the teams that have sprinters are pulling except UAE, who won the first stage with Molano.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

So a two man break involving lower ranked teams......

 

[Cycling111]

UnoX's ability to develop cyclists. Yesterday they finished third, and today they won the sprint.

 

[yaco]

Molano should have won that sprint but got blocked in until too late. he is sprinting much better than at the TDU.

 

[Squire]

If Molano was even remotely well-positioned, he would have smoked this. Got boxed in, had to stop pedalling, still somehow got 2nd.

Great to see Houcou at the front! And good win by Blikra. 2nd best sprinter here, so no real surprise.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I refuse to believe this guy is real, they’ve just invented a Norwegian, he’s spawned in like an NPC on Grand theft auto.