Tour of Oman

[Reverend_T_Preedy]

last year Sagan was in the first group at Paris Roubaix until he punctured and was second at the junior version 2008

Oss was very good in the classics last year but I think Sagan has at least the same potential.

Second to Andy Fenn who will also be riding this year for An Post

 

[lucybears]

I wonder if Qatar is where Phinny might go for something. That 2km prologue looks like something a pursuit rider could shine in... it's half the distance of the track event.

Wouldn't be shocked if he was wearing the leader's jersey after stage 1.

I don't know if they'd ride for him in the sprints since Kristoff is there... but Phinney had a couple of top 10 sprint finishes at Qatar last year.

Seems like Oman has a few too many climbs for Phinney, unless he's improved significantly from last year. Might be able to get a nice place in the TT, but not the overall I'd think.

Phinney aint there.........

 

[Christian]

MONFORT to lead Leopard Trek in Oman:

http://www.dhnet.be/sports/cyclisme/article/341636/monfort-deja-designe-leader.html

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-chall_de_majorque_t_d_oman_monfort_tres_motive-12269.html

With Fuglsang as a team mate, probably Cancellara and Posthuma as well. Nice to see Monfort get his chance already so early in the season, I hope he can get a nice result!

 

[theyoungest]

MONFORT to lead Leopard Trek in Oman:

http://www.dhnet.be/sports/cyclisme/article/341636/monfort-deja-designe-leader.html

http://www.cyclismactu.net/news-chall_de_majorque_t_d_oman_monfort_tres_motive-12269.html

With Fuglsang as a team mate, probably Cancellara and Posthuma as well. Nice to see Monfort get his chance already so early in the season, I hope he can get a nice result!

Look back a few pages in this thread, Wielerland mentioned that more than a week ago. Almost immediately after the start list was released, in fact.

 

[Christian]

Look back a few pages in this thread, Wielerland mentioned that more than a week ago. Almost immediately after the start list was released, in fact.

Thx must have overlooked that. In fact.

 

[DAOTEC]

let's see

Seems like Oman has a few too many climbs for Phinney, unless he's improved significantly from last year. Might be able to get a nice place in the TT, but not the overall I'd think.

'Taylor Phinney confirms he will make his pro debut in Tour of Oman'

Read more: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/7...-pro-debut-in-Tour-of-Oman.aspx#ixzz1Da2LXMyL

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Hey, Taylor...

As a UCI-licensed team, you were likely officially called a pro at Trek-Livestrong. Therefore you made your pro debut in 2009.

If we are talking pro debut as in début at the highest level (i.e. ProTour) then the Tour of Oman is not a race at that level. Besides, you already rode the Tour of Qatar last year, and Oman is not a step up from that.

If you're talking pro début as in début at one of the top-level teams, then you must have forgotten about the Post Danmark Rundt, which you rode for Radioshack last year. It is, also, a higher-rated event than Qatar or Oman, being .HC instead of .1.

So, by every definition, you're wrong.

 

[jens_attacks]

libertine owning anglo sax's as always )

 

[maltiv]

Hey, Taylor...

As a UCI-licensed team, you were likely officially called a pro at Trek-Livestrong. Therefore you made your pro debut in 2009.

If we are talking pro debut as in début at the highest level (i.e. ProTour) then the Tour of Oman is not a race at that level. Besides, you already rode the Tour of Qatar last year, and Oman is not a step up from that.

If you're talking pro début as in début at one of the top-level teams, then you must have forgotten about the Post Danmark Rundt, which you rode for Radioshack last year. It is, also, a higher-rated event than Qatar or Oman, being .HC instead of .1.

So, by every definition, you're wrong.

Does Phinney even say that it is his pro debut? As far as I can see, only the journalist claims so, while Phinney mentions nothing similar.

 

[jens_attacks]

i really hope phinney apologized to vino after those stupid tweets.otherwise:

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Does Phinney even say that it is his pro debut? As far as I can see, only the journalist claims so, while Phinney mentions nothing similar.

If it's the journalist I should be bagging, not Phinney, then fair enough, I apologise to Taylor.

I didn't bother reading the interview. I'm just not very interested in Taylor Phinney, and on those rare occasions that I do pay attention he's busy tweeting like a thirteen-year-old girl.

 

[theyoungest]

If it's the journalist I should be bagging, not Phinney, then fair enough, I apologise to Taylor.

I didn't bother reading the interview. I'm just not very interested in Taylor Phinney, and on those rare occasions that I do pay attention he's busy tweeting like a thirteen-year-old girl.

You've just given us a complete rundown of his appearances in pro races, so for someone who's not interested in Phinney you've been paying a lot of attention.

 

[auscyclefan94]

If it's the journalist I should be bagging, not Phinney, then fair enough, I apologise to Taylor.

I didn't bother reading the interview. I'm just not very interested in Taylor Phinney, and on those rare occasions that I do pay attention he's busy tweeting like a thirteen-year-old girl.

Hey, Taylor...

As a UCI-licensed team, you were likely officially called a pro at Trek-Livestrong. Therefore you made your pro debut in 2009.

If we are talking pro debut as in début at the highest level (i.e. ProTour) then the Tour of Oman is not a race at that level. Besides, you already rode the Tour of Qatar last year, and Oman is not a step up from that.

If you're talking pro début as in début at one of the top-level teams, then you must have forgotten about the Post Danmark Rundt, which you rode for Radioshack last year. It is, also, a higher-rated event than Qatar or Oman, being .HC instead of .1.

So, by every definition, you're wrong.

Well Done Liberitine! You just showed your anti anglo attitude again! If you think being super picky about little things is worth a post then I feeel sorry for you.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

You've just given us a complete rundown of his appearances in pro races, so for someone who's not interested in Phinney you've been paying a lot of attention.

Or, alternatively, I just went to the riders page of CQ, and typed in "Phinney".

Well Done Liberitine! You just showed your anti anglo attitude again! If you think being super picky about little things is worth a post then I feeel sorry for you.

Says the guy who brings up that BMC had a guy in an escape group of over 20, or that one of their riders managed 18th in a sprint. You should know by now that I'm a hopeless pedant, and have picked out logical inaccuracies regardless of a rider's origin. Or maybe some people are happier to just vaguely recollect and remember facts as you want to remember them rather than as they were.

Considering the amount of hype that is placed on Taylor's young shoulders, you'd think he'd remember a few things about his young career.

 

[theyoungest]

Or, alternatively, I just went to the riders page of CQ, and typed in "Phinney".

You actually did some research to teach someone you don't care about (and who doesn't care about you, nor will he ever read this) a lesson?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

You actually did some research to teach someone you don't care about (and who doesn't care about you, nor will he ever read this) a lesson?

When you put it like that... yes. Yes, I did.

I'd rather be an idiot for hunting out facts for something ultimately meaningless than an idiot for bathing in my own ignorance in something that winds up being important.

 

[Anonymous]

i really hope phinney apologized to vino after those stupid tweets.otherwise:

I seem to remember young Taylor retracting his comments a few weeks later after realising the **** storm he had created.

 

[jens_attacks]

kudos to him then.

 

[royalpig180]

lol, Matthews thinks he has business in Flanders already!

Matthews has business plenty o places, but Flanders isn't one of them. Sagan could do decent at Flanders, but I'm still not convinced that he can handle the distance of a long classic like Msr or Flanders. This could easily have changed since last year, but I'm not gonna believe it until I see it...

 

[DAOTEC]

starter-list

Web: [http://letour.html]

Leopard-Trek
1 WEYLANDT, Wouter
2 VIGANO, Davide
3 MONFORT, Maxime
4 POSTHUMA, Joost
5 GRADY, Stuart O'
6 FUGLSANG, Jakob
7 BENNATI, Daniele
8 CANCELLARA, Fabian

Garmin-Cervélo
11 VANMARCKE, Sep
12 VANSUMMEREN, Johan
13 RASCH, Gabriel
14 MEYER, Cameron
15 KLIER, Andreas
16 HAUSSLER, Heinrich
17 HAMMOND, Roger
18 HUSHOVD, Thor

Katusha
21 VANDENBERGH, Stijn
22 TRUSOV, Nikolay
23 POZZATO, Filippo
24 PAOLINI, Luca
25 KUSCHYNSKI, Aleksandr
26 HOSTE, Leif
27 GALIMZYANOV, Denis
28 RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Joaquin

Sky
31 SUTTON, Christopher
32 STANNARD, Ian
33 HUNT, Jeremy
34 HAYMAN, Mathew
35 FLECHA, Juan Antonio
36 DOWNING, Russell
37 ARVESEN, Kurt-Asle
38 HAGEN, Edvald Boasson

Geox-TMC
41 RATTO, Daniele
42 PELUCCHI, Matteo
43 KUMP, Marko
44 KOZONTCHUK, Dmitry
45 FLORENCIO, Xavier
46 BLANCO RODIGUEZ, David
47 ALBERIO, Tomas
48 MENCHOV, Denis

Astana
51 VAITKUS, Tomas
52 LORENZETTO, Mirco
53 KANGERT, Tanel
54 IGLINSKIY, Valentin
55 GRIVKO, Andriy
56 GOUROV, Maxim
57 BAZAYEV, Assan
58 VINOKOUROV, Alexandre

Rabobank
61 WYNANTS, Maarten
62 TJALLINGII, Maarten
63 TANKINK, Bram
64 FLENS, Rick
65 BROWN, Graeme
66 BOS, Theo
67 BOOM, Lars
68 GESINK, Robert

Quickstep-Innergetic
71 IMPE, Kevin Van
72 STEEGMANS, Gert
73 STAUFF, Andreas
74 MAES, Nikolas
75 DEVENYNS, Dries
76 MAAR, Marc De
77 CHICCHI, Francesco
78 BOONEN, Tom

Farnese Vini-Neri-Sottoli
81 SINKEWITZ, Patrik
82 RICCI BITTI, Davide
83 GUARDINI, Andrea
84 GIORDANI, Leonardo
85 GATTO, Oscar
86 FAILLI, Francesco
87 CACCIA, Diego
88 VISCONTI, Giovanni

HTC-High Road
91 ROULSTON, Hayden
92 RASMUSSEN, Alex
93 PINOTTI, Marco
94 GRETSCH, Patrick
95 GOSS, Matthew
96 YTTING BAK, Lars
97 ALBASINI, Michael

Française des Jeux
101 SULZBERGER, Wesley
102 ROLLIN, Dominique
103 LADAGNOUS, Matthieu
104 JEANNESSON, Arnold
105 GUESDON, Frédéric
106 GESLIN, Anthony
107 BOUHANNI, Nacer
108 CASAR, Sandy

BMC
111 WYSS, Danilo
112 AVERMAET, Greg Van
113 SCHAR, Michael
114 QUINZIATO, Manuel
115 KROON, Karsten
116 KRISTOFF, Alexander
117 BURGHARDT, Marcus
118 PHINNEY, Taylor

Skil-Shimano
121 VEELERS, Tom
122 ZANDBEEK, Ronan Van
123 HUMMEL, Kenny Van
124 TIMMER, Albert
125 REIMER, Martin
126 GESCHKE, Simon
127 KORT, Koen De
128 KLUGE, Roger

Lampre-ISD
131 SZEGHALMI, Balint
132 MALORI, Adriano
133 KRIVTSOV, Dmytro
134 KONDRUT, Vitaliy
135 HONDO, Danilo
136 BONO, Matteo
137 BOLE, Grega
138 PETACCHI, Alessandro

Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator
141 WALLAYS, Jelle
142 VANSPEYBROUCK, Pieter
143 HECKE, Preben Van
144 STEURS, Geert
145 SERRY, Pieter
146 NEIRYNCK, Stijn
147 BOECKMANS, Kris
148 STAEYEN, Michael Van

An Post-M. Donnelly-Grant Thornton-Sean Kelly
151 MCNALLY, Mark
152 GHYLLEBERT, Pieter
153 FENN, Andrew
154 DEBUSSCHERE, Maxim
155 CLAEYS, Kevin
156 CASSIDY, Mark
157 BENNETT, Sam
158 EECKHOUT, Niko

 

[The Hitch]

Interesting that all the leaders are given the number 8 rather than 1.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Why is Cancellara not pinning #1 to his jersey?

Edit: looks like all teams are numbered in reverse order here, with the leader at the bottom and the alphabet proceeding from Z to A above.

A few oddities confuse matters - naming Lars Ytting Bäk with Ytting as the surname, or ignoring the "van" in Kevin van Impe.

 

[Christian]

A few oddities confuse matters - naming Lars Ytting Bäk with Ytting as the surname, or ignoring the "van" in Kevin van Impe.

I like GRADY, Stuart O'

 

[Ferminal]

Interesting that all the leaders are given the number 8 rather than 1.

Sounds like something they would do in the Far East.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Is the linked picture of Green mountain?http://plixi.com/p/76934593