Tour of Oman. Stage six.

Only 112 points today & 4 spots up in overall table.

When I'm in two minds I always use the wrong one

148 for me today, shame it was a shite score yesterday or i might be near the top again in region instead of 4th.

141 points, good thing I subbed in Kittel instead of Cav. Nice third place finish.

Woop woop 26th on stage today. Hurry up Paris-Nice, when's the start list comin?????

I think the penalties are only worth it if you have 2/3/4 transfers going into the mountains on the Grand Tours and you need 3/4/5 transfers to get in the 5-7 guys who will be out in front

I would have had 20 points more if I had not subbed sagan, experiment that shows penalties are not worth it except in dire need.

Bit disspondant, in my eyes the season long has gone. 7th to 87th, and 400 points behind ryl. Only interest is will jauman catch him, even though there is a long way to go.

Just watched Hoy awesome.
Must be nice to have a 6 grand Pinerello just for cooling down on.

i didn't get chance to sub for the last stage
and then the kids took the laptops away for half term.
Roll on paris nice.

I took a 20 point penalty and subbed Kittel, only thing is I subbed out Sagan. Heh heh, it's only a game

Yeah, big shout out to Anthony McCrossan, he's single-handedly kept the wider cycling world abreast of what's being going on through his tweets.

As for Gkam's 'tips,' earlier this week I bought a bag of some rather nice Portuguese sea salt to keep handy whenever he offers them

whoot!

Took the gamble on Denis Galimzyanov & Baden Cooke paid off with Denis's 4th. (gained all of 3 points)

So 1, 2, 4, 5 9 & 13, GC 3 Points 1, 2, 3, 4 Youth 1 + Sagan 2nd in intermediate sprint

So a reasonable 166 points for the day, hope to see a green arrow on the overall for me today, most the peeps ahead should of scored in the 140 range

Stage 1 and 6 were slow to update, the rest of the ASO website has not been to bad, without Ant out in Oman, this tour would have been a waste of time

Thanks for the update Gkam84
Just got to say Tour of Oman website is really pants & so hard to get details

Top 10 GC

1. VELITS
2. NIBALI
3. GALLOPIN
4. CASAR
5. JEANNESSON
6. SLAGTER
7. RODRIGUEZ
8. NAVARDAUSKAS
9. LEBAS
10. CANCELLARA

Top 5 Points

1. SAGAN
2. GREIPEL
3. KITTEL
4. BOUHANNI
5. FARRAR

Top 5 Youth

1. GALLOPIN
2. SLAGTER
3. NAVARDAUSKAS
4. STANNARD
5. BUTLER

1. KITTEL
2. SAGAN
3. FARRAR
4. GALIMZYANOV
5. BOUHANNI
6. OSS
7. KRISTOFF
8. BOONEN
9. GUARDINI
10. GUSEV
11. SIEBERG
12. SELIG
13. GALLOPIN
14. CAVENDISH
15. HAYMAN
16. JEANNESSON
17. DAVIS
18. VAN WINDEN
19. FRIEDEMANN
20. HUNTER

Thats your top 20 stage, I see Selig heard my warning last night that he better score me something today

No Greipel

@Gkam84 I trust your words of wisdom implicitly honestly

The race finished about 11.15am UK time

Following @antmccrossan on twitter - he's out there commentating. Admittedly it's the initial results. But it's a good indicator

my team for the final fling

Greipel
Sagan
Galimzyanov
Velits
Cooke
Bouhanni
Navardauskas
Bak
Wynants

Peter Velits takes the GC win

Sagan in 2nd. Farrar 3rd

Kittel wins

Setting up for a Griepel v Cavendish v Kittel grande finale at the

Lets hope for me, Cav cant do it today

6km to go, bunch sprint coming up

I had to share this update from twitter

Recap: new bonus sprint coming up but 3 leaders - Van Dam, Vansummeren & Vandevelde will take those bonus seconds

Anyone spot the mistake?

Greipel (replaced Boonen)
Sagan
Galimzyanov (replaced Langeveld)
Velits
Gallopin (replaced Blythe)
Bouhanni (replaced Posthuma)
Phinney
Navardauskas
Jelte Slagter

I'm thinking its gonna be Greipel, Galimzyanov and Sagan on the podium today.

Right after a poor ToO
TOO stage 5 (Dream Team) 76
TOO stage 4 (Dream Team) 110
TOO stage 3 (Dream Team) 121
TOO stage 2 (Dream Team) 80
TOO stage 1 (Dream Team) 77

This lot better pull it out for me!

Andre Greipel
Peter Sagan
Marcel Kittel
Denis Galimzyanov

Nacer Bouhanni
Tony Gallopin
Baden Cooke
Chris Sutton
Tom Jelte Slagter