{"id":419380,"date":"2026-02-11T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419380\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:55:14","slug":"preview-tour-of-oman-2026-stage-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419380\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview Tour of Oman 2026 stage 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The queen stage of the race, and another ‘unipuerto’ day. If the wind doesn’t blow, the riders will go into the climb of Green Mountain very fresh and ready to deploy massive power outputs, as if they were doing a time trial.<\/p>\n

The climb is 5.8 kilometers long at 10%, but even though this is a brutal description of it, the climb is made even harder by the fact that it’s on an exposed desert road; and the for the fact that the road is incredibly wide, like a highway.<\/p>\n

The riders will be incredibly exposed to the elements and resisting them will be just as important as having the legs in this W\/Kg test, even more so because there will be no crowds cheering on the riders in its gruesome slopes which start off at 14% right from the very bottom.<\/p>\n

*** Adam Yates<\/a>, Valentin Paret-Peintre
** Diego Pescador, Sebastian Berwick
* William Lecerf Junior, Chris Harper, Christian Scaroni, Harold Mart\u00edn L\u00f3pez, Lorenzo Fortunato, Luke Plapp, Mauro Schmid, Martin Tjotta, Nairo Quintana, R\u00e9myu Rochas<\/p>\n

How: Solo win, not followed by Valentin Paret-Peintre this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The queen stage of the race, and another ‘unipuerto’ day. If the wind doesn’t blow, the riders will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[140603,4985,1009,101,128270,12183,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-419380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-adam-yates","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-preview","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tour-of-oman","13":"tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}