A quiet stage and no gaps between the overall standings contenders.<\/p>\n
The 15th edition of the Tour of Oman got underway Saturday morning, with a 170.9km stage between the Ministry of Tourism and Bimmah Sink Hole. Despite the presence of a steep climb in the first part, followed by some undulating roads for more than 100 kilometers, the day was expected to come down to a mass gallop, as the last half of the race didn\u2019t feature any difficulties.<\/p>\n
After a few skirmishes, three men jumped away and formed a breakaway who was kept on a tight leash by the peloton. Gradually, their three-minute maximum gap came down and they were caught with more than ten kilometers to go. On the finishing straight, there wasn\u2019t a team to control things, making for a chaotic bunch sprint, won by Juan Sebastian Molano (UAE Team Emirates).<\/p>\n
Warre Vangheluwe, who is racing in Oman for the first time in his career, was Soudal Quick-Step\u2019s first rider home on this first stage. On Sunday, the peloton will return to the Yitti Hills, where the many small climbs \u2013 some featuring steep gradients \u2013 stacked in the last 40 kilometers promise to reshuffle the general classification.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Photo credit:\u00a0\u00a9Szymon Gruchalski \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A quiet stage and no gaps between the overall standings contenders. The 15th edition of the Tour of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,76256,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-459640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-soudal-quick-step-pro-cycling-team","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}