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Abu Dhabi Tour 2018, Feb 21-25

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Who will win on Jebel Hafeet sunday?

  • Rui Costa

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ilnur Zakarin

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Tom Dumoulin

    Votes: 7 13.2%
  • Miguel Angel Lopez

    Votes: 8 15.1%
  • Alejandro Valverde

    Votes: 24 45.3%
  • Ion Izaguirre

    Votes: 1 1.9%
  • Domenico Pozzovivo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Alexandre Geniez

    Votes: 3 5.7%
  • Simon Yates

    Votes: 4 7.5%
  • Someone else

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • Total voters
    53
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Don't know, but he had a lot more KMs than what it's showing for Aug as that's when he'd gotten back on his bike to start training again. He did the training ride with his team on the first rest day of la Vuelta and had been riding on the road for a solid week before that. From what he said he was doing 700K a week starting sometime in Sept, thus riding about 3,000 kms per month in Oct, Nov, and Dec. So it is possible yes, is it actually his, who knows. As it's possible he has one and doesn't always use it for all of his rides. I have no clue if he has a strava account or not.
 
Valverde is a better climber than Costa, so it's not a big surprise.

I think Dumoulin is his main rival. Even if he drops the rest on the steepest sections, Dumo can still use his TT skills and reel him in when it flattens out.

It's a bit harder to do with Valverde than Quintana but it's Dumo we are talking about.
 
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Velolover2 said:
Jspear said:
Netserk said:
Lequack said:
Am I the only one who can't really tell these desert races apart?
Dubai: sprints.
Qatar (RIP): crosswinds.
Oman: hills.
Abu Dhabi: crap.

I get you're being a little funny, but aren't they all pretty much classified as crap?

Most of the stages are crap but Hatta Dam and Green Mountain are gaining status.

And Qatar produced some fun moments.