Tour of Oman *Spoiler*

greeny12 wrote:

Above The Cows wrote:

Ghost of William Thesiger spotted at Tour of Oman cycling event. It was not sure whether or not he had arrived on a camel.

Wilfred, old boy. Wilfred.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Thesiger

I knew it didn't look quite right. Should have googled.

I think "By Boonens Beard" is my new favourite phrase to sling about.

frenchfighter wrote:

What's that FdJ helmet? looks cool in that view.

Richmond Racer wrote:

Smokey Bacon wrote:

I think "By Boonens Beard" is my new favourite phrase to sling about.

Its most excellent

That's a great shot, Frenchie

Close call for Griepel by the look of it - Howard is one of those sprinters who does pretty well when given his head.

frenchfighter wrote:

Paulie W wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

Smokey Bacon wrote:

I think "By Boonens Beard" is my new favourite phrase to sling about.

Its most excellent

That's a great shot, Frenchie

Close call for Griepel by the look of it - Howard is one of those sprinters who does pretty well when given his head.

Not too much:

Ah, that's not so close after all.

Richmond Racer wrote:

C'mon the Kenny E, show what you can do again

Hope he comes good on this class:



He was in TDU but didnt feature.

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

Nibs may bail halfway if Baby Nibs springs forth

Didn't know he was having a baby. Incidentally, I can't think of any career defining races that finished about 9 months ago...

Well, if you're going to celebrate, do it with a bang

TakeTheHighRoad wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

Nibs may bail halfway if Baby Nibs springs forth

Didn't know he was having a baby. Incidentally, I can't think of any career defining races that finished about 9 months ago...

Isn't Quintana's fiance about to give birth as well?

20ks to race. Sprint coming up.

Alexander Kristoff wins stage 2.

Boonen 3rd, Howard 2nd.

From stage 1:

Unfortunately, the team made a bad mistake in the hectic finale. Someone in Boonen's lead-out train moved to the centre of the long finishing straight, leaving the door wide open along the barriers. Lotto Belisol lead-out men Marcel Sieberg and Jurgen Roelandts exploited the opportunity to accelerate through the gap and gave André Greipel another textbook lead-out. While the German took his fourth win of the season, Boonen had to settle for 5th.

After the race, Boonen regretted the mistake.

"It's not that I'm mad because I lost but that we missed a chance," he told Cyclingnews at the finish. "It's stupid when you do a perfect lead-out and then f**k it up a little bit. The Lotto guys deserved the win today, they did a great job."

However, Boonen was quick to praise his rivals who had done most of the work to chase down the early break.

"Lotto deserved the win," he said. "It was an impressive sprint but we made the space for them. We were on the right but then we went to the middle. If we'd stayed right, nobody could have passed us, even if we go 10km an hour slower. They came from the right. Sieberg brought them to the front and then Roelandts accelerated the two of them clear.

"We had a good lead-out until the last kilometre but then it got a little hectic and we left a little bit too much space on the right side. A small mistake cost us victory. Everybody came over us from the right."

Greipel insisted that his team would have found an opening even if the Omega Pharma-Quick Step train hadn't made a mistake.

"I trust my guys 100% and they know what they have to do," he said. "Even if Quick Step didn't open on the right side, we could have passed them on the left. I stuck to the wheel of my teammate and we were not panicking. We had the horse power with a kilometre to go. When Sieberg started it was pretty amazing and fast. I think we deserved it."

http://cyclingquotes.com/news/boonen_ru ... y_in_oman/

Katusha win leaves just 4 WT teams without a visit to the top step this year - Astana, Belkin, Cannondale and Tinkoff.