Tour of Oman. Stage 4

Goss driving them up the climb, sprinters dropping out the back again

Sagan, chavennel and casar riding hard on the front up the climb now

Greipel dropped. Chavanel attacks now, Matt Goss on the front of the peloton powering up the climb. Sprinters going out the back

Chavanal, Sagan and Casar going well.

Greipel dropped, chavanel attacks

Looks like I chose the wrong FDJ rider again!

Im guessing we are all following the same twitter account? or does someone have a stream?

Greipel dropped. Chavanal attacks

How did that happen! Greipel won, Sagan 2nd, Sutton 3rd.....what a mistake dropping Greipel!

Greipel.

Andre Greipel gets back on to win the stage. Sagan second. Think Chris Sutton 3rd #tourofoman

Christ!! If that's right I got 1,2, 3.

Awesome recovery from Greipel to win. Well done everyone who gambled by leaving him in. Unfortunately that was not me

from a different twitter account

1. Greipel (LTB) 2. Sagan (LIQ) 3. Gallopin (RNT) 4. Bouhanni (FDJ) 5. Sutton (SKY)

1,2, 4, 5 happy me

2, 3, 4 if nickobec is correct, which would be better

2nd and 4th so far might not be as bad as feared.

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I'm off to commit suicide now I got 3rd, but still not good, thinking i'm gonna give up the game this year, doing my nut in already and with unreliable coverage and reports/profiles, i give up, its not even fun like it was last year with prizes for every race, takes the fun element away

Yeah there is a long way to go, but its now spoiling my enjoyment of cycling, I can understand taking in Qatar, but what was the point in Oman, NO TV coverage, having to rely on twitter for updates from one person out there, not seeing the previous stage until the deadline for the next transfers were done, all a bit pointless

Last year this game enhanced my viewing of the races because it was a bit like the horses, you cheer on your guys, cant do that with Oman

Eurosport have just started stage 3 highlights, stage 4 has already finished, so 2 stages behind now

There was me thinking that ToQ and ToO were last minute additions to the game, in response to complaints that otherwise we'd have no Fantasy Cycling to follow for a month.

The situation with ToO coverage is poor, but I'd rather have something to follow (even if it involves even more of a blindfold and pin approach than normal) rather than no FC fix

Anyone know where Chavanel finished?

We have to remember this race was not included in the fantasy game and it was peer pressure that got it added so i suppose we just have to live with it. I think the tour of algarve would have been a better race to include than Oman but thats like saying "shutting the gate after the horse has bolted".

I admit the tv coverage has been worse than shite but again we cant predict what the tv companies are going to show especially when its the southern hemisphere (i think my georgraphy is correct).

1. GREIPEL André
2. SAGAN Peter
3. GALLOPIN Tony
4. BOUHANNI Nacer
5. SUTTON Christopher
6. KOHLER Martin
7. DE NEGRI Pier Paolo
8. CHAVANEL Sylvain
9. NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas
10. COOKE Baden
11. BOONEN Tom
12. DE KORT Koen
13. GUSEV Vladimir
14. ASCANI Luca
15. KUCHYNSKI Aliaksandr
16. YOSHIDA Hayato
17. CANCELLARA Fabian
18. HAYMAN Mathew
19. BALLAN Alessandro
20. WYNANTS Maarten

1. GREIPEL André 71 LOTTO-BELISOL TEAM 3h 37' 02"
2. SAGAN Peter 27 LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
3. GALLOPIN Tony 15 RADIOSHACK-NISSAN 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
4. BOUHANNI Nacer 94 FDJ-BIGMAT 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
5. SUTTON Christopher 8 SKY PROCYCLING 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
6. KOHLER Martin 83 BMC RACING TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
7. DE NEGRI Pier Paolo 127 FARNESE VINI-SELLE ITALIA 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
8. CHAVANEL Sylvain 52 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
9. NAVARDAUSKAS Ramunas 66 GARMIN - BARRACUDA 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
10. COOKE Baden 42 GREENEDGE CYCLING TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
11. BOONEN Tom 51 OMEGA PHARMA-QUICK STEP 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
12. DE KORT Koen 114 PROJECT 1T4I 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
13. GUSEV Vladimir 33 KATUSHA TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
14. ASCANI Luca 123 FARNESE VINI-SELLE ITALIA 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
15. KUCHYNSKI Aliaksandr 37 KATUSHA TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
16. YOSHIDA Hayato 147 BRIDGESTONE ANCHOR 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
17. CANCELLARA Fabian 12 RADIOSHACK-NISSAN 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
18. HAYMAN Mathew 5 SKY PROCYCLING 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
19. BALLAN Alessandro 81 BMC RACING TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"
20. WYNANTS Maarten 108 RABOBANK CYCLING TEAM 3h 37' 02" + 00' 00"

top 20

and chavanel finished 8th, he is 22nd in GC

I've been complaining about the lack of coverage of Oman since the start, yes i got a decent score yesterday, but that still doesn't make up for the fact that there is another race on, WITH TV coverage that should have been put in and not Oman

Oman was NEVER scheduled to have ANY live coverage at all

The reason i got a decent score yesterday, along with most others is because i stuck with who i know, I cant see anyone to see if they look good for a break tomorrow because there is no coverage until the next stage is finished

Damn-Galimzyanov second to last!!

holy sheet ... i got 1,2,3,4,5 .. 9,11 ...

Distance from London to Muscat
Distance is 5839 kilometers or 3629 miles or 3153 nautical miles

And using the same Muscat, to the Equator works out at roughly 1611 miles using latitude and longitude and an algorithm is known as the Great Circle distance.

Well I wasn't factoring in longitude or actual distance London to Muscat - just drawing an imaginary straight line of longitude down from Cornwall and moving Oman west onto that (which would place it roughly in Mauritania, about 3,500km below the UK and getting on for 3,000km above the Equator. Certainly not halfway, but closer in terms of latitude to UK than you'd assume.

And still in the Northern Hemisphere

(And obviously those are very rough back of a fag packet calculations...)

Hmm, 1,2,3,4,5 and 9. Not too bad.

1,2,3,4,5,9,10,11 ........Not a bad day at the races..