Spoiler : Tour of Oman. 11 - 16 Feb

[thom]

Excellent - really pleased for Froome. Sure this is early season and unimportant in the large but this is the first stage race victory for Chris who has demonstrated the talent to get close in the past. It looks like there can be a fun year ahead with Froome, Contador, Rodriguez and perhaps others getting in the mix of some pretty aggressive and exciting cycling. It augurs well that Froome has shown he can come out on top on his day.

 

[Radchenister]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CivgHldR0w

 

[jifdave]

good to see a decent highlight package

 

[Radchenister]

That was great viewing - wonder what the chats were about over the last few minutes?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Looking at the shoulder to shoulder stuff and the 'chats' between Froome and Contador, I have a feeling we are have a very tasty season lined up...

 

[ayceejay]

I have noticed that a lot of the young riders in the early breakaways have a much slower cadence than was once the norm. There were some nasty climbs for sure but is this a new trend?

 

[BJH]

Congratulations must go to Froome - taking any race ahead of the field he was up against is a fantastic result

 

[thom]

At one point I really thought the commentator made an awful lot of the chat between Contador and Froome. It's their job to talk stuff up up I didn't buy it all.

 

[rich p]

I don't know what to make of the 'chat'. It looked like AC started it but I can't imagine what he could say. It was hardly incumbent on Froome to do his share of the work since he already had the jersey.
There'll be more at steak stake later in the season though.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I don't know what to make of the 'chat'.

Contador: Hey, Froome, can you get me some of that 'horse' you have in England?

Froome: fark Off, Steak Boy.

Contador: Come off it, everyone knows you've got some. Give me some 'horse'...

 

[Noodley]

A good stage win for Bouhanni and great to see Kenny Elissonde winning best young rider

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Finally, some highlights packages available for Stage 6:

 

[Flying_Monkey]

And the last stirring musical offering from the official race organization. I'm going to miss these! Thiss ne has the added bonus of showing Chris Froome officially opening the local bike hire scheme!

 

[Strathlubnaig]

Contador: Hey, Froome, can you get me some of that 'horse' you have in England?

Froome: f*** Off, Steak Boy.

Contador: Come off it, everyone knows you've got some. Give me some 'horse'...

yip, Froome found some extra horse power on that climb the other day.

 

[montage]

I don't think the convo between Froome and Bertie was all that much to read into - maybe a bit of encouragement for Bertie to do some more work but no more... the "elbows" just looked like a minor wobble. What a great race to watch this has been - looking forward to round 2!