Tour of Oman - Muscat Classic 2023 , February 10-15

[Lequack]

Some short interviews
PS: Is that Cavendish chatting to Carlton Kirby?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623733998487801858

View: https://twitter.com/tourofoman/status/1623733998487801858?s=20&t=V23yf3KBiZhY7Pz7UWET-Q

 

[postmanhat]

Looks like every day could potentially provide interesting racing. Does anyone know approximately when The Muscat Classic will finish tomorrow CET?

 

[RedheadDane]

Some short interviews
PS: Is that Cavendish chatting to Carlton Kirby?

Looks like Cavendish.
And I love how it's basically "Cavendish, and some Quickstep guys."

 

[Lequack]

Looks like every day could potentially provide interesting racing. Does anyone know approximately when The Muscat Classic will finish tomorrow CET?

Around 15:30 local time, meaning 12:30 CET

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Some short interviews
PS: Is that Cavendish chatting to Carlton Kirby?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623733998487801858

View: https://twitter.com/tourofoman/status/1623733998487801858?s=20&t=V23yf3KBiZhY7Pz7UWET-Q

Nice to see some word from Fausto , although his English didn't improve lol

 

[Scarponi]

Remember ten years ago when Froome, Evans, Nibali , Contador (maybe?) battled it out on green mountain.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Muscat classic is on. Ishibashi attacked and no-one wanted to join him. Some three hours to go still, and he already looks a bit worn. Don't know how long it is until they reach the Al-Jabal climb.

 

[hayneplane]

Remember ten years ago when Froome, Evans, Nibali , Contador (maybe?) battled it out on green mountain.

Good times. That was the peak of the Middle Eastern cycling events.

 

[Lequack]

People! We have a live stream!
PS: Albeit in Arabic, but still.

Here is the live broadacast:

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1djGXlZDnYkGZ

 

[RedheadDane]

@Red Rick! Where are you with that glue bottle?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Remember ten years ago when Froome, Evans, Nibali , Contador (maybe?) battled it out on green mountain.

And it was Purito who beat all of them !

 

[Aimar16]

Youtube stream if you don't like twitter -

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umB5pYa1FUM

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Manabu Ishibashi has a gap of over 16 minutes now. I hope he holds on.

 

[Lequack]

Manabu Ishibashi has a gap of over 16 minutes now. I hope he holds on.

Where can you see this?

 

[RedheadDane]

Where can you see this?

Maybe he speaks Arab...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Where can you see this?

They're giving time updates on the Tour of Oman twitter account.

Maybe he speaks Arab...

As you know, I can barely manage one language.

 

[Lequack]

Maybe he speaks Arab...

If found some info on their Twitter. 88km to go, gap is ~17 minutes:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1623977655644061697

View: https://twitter.com/tourofoman/status/1623977655644061697

 

[Lequack]

Imagine if they don't catch him and he wins the GC just from this attack.

Guy in the attack is Manabu Ishibashi, a Japanese rider, from a Japanese continental team.

Manabu Ishibashi

Manabu Ishibashi (born 1992-11-30 in Sannohe) is a professional road racing cyclist from Japan, currently riding for JCL Team UKYO. His best results are 2nd place in stage Tour de Hokkaido and 7th place in GC Tour of Japan.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[Whoops]

Manabu Ishibashi has a gap of over 16 minutes now. I hope he holds on.

Seems like the peleton is going twice as fast. He's really suffering by the looks of it

 

[Lequack]

Seems like the peleton is going twice as fast. He's really suffering by the looks of it

It's true, the gap now says 13’30’’ with 78km to go.

 

[Salvarani]

Imagine if they don't catch him and he wins the GC just from this attack.

Guy in the attack is Manabu Ishibashi, a Japanese rider, from a Japanese continental team.

Manabu Ishibashi

Manabu Ishibashi (born 1992-11-30 in Sannohe) is a professional road racing cyclist from Japan, currently riding for JCL Team UKYO. His best results are 2nd place in stage Tour de Hokkaido and 7th place in GC Tour of Japan.

www.procyclingstats.com

He wins the race, not the GC!

Tour of Oman starts tomorrow

 

[Lequack]

He wins the race, not the GC!

Tour of Oman starts tomorrow

Oh, true! It's a classic after all.

 

[RedheadDane]

He wins the race, not the GC!

Tour of Oman starts tomorrow

That's what I was thinking too. If this counted towards GC, why not just call the whole thing "Oman Tour", just... a day longer?

 

[Lequack]

Bora is splitting up the race.

 

[Samamba]

Bora making it hard. Great to see.