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Arab Tour - Discussion
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| Nemolito |
Posted on 10-03-2025 00:19
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 Arab Tour (HC) - preview
Welcome to the United Arab Emirates for the fifth edition of the Arab Tour! This is and has always been a stage race for the pure time trialists, with two times winner Marlen Zmorka unable to be here to represent his title. Let's have a look at the profile.
No prologue, but three sprint stages and a 30 km time trial. Unless some crazy stuff happens, this should mean the GC victory goes to a time trialist again. Let's have a look at the best ones at the startline.
| Nat. | Name | TT |  |  Dunbar Eddie | 82 |  |  Durbridge Luke | 80 |  |  Beniusis Justas | 80 |  |  Bjerg Mikkel | 80 | |  Howson Damien | 80 |  | Cataford Alexandor | 79 | |  Norsgaard Mathias | 79 | | Kmieliauskas Rokas | 79 |  |  Haugard Phan Age | 79 |  |  Paillot Yoann | 79 |  |  Noia Carlo | 78 |  |  Ioannidis Nikolaos | 78 | | Kiriakidis Ioannidis | 78 | | Christapopoulos Pangiotis | 78 |  |  Ferreyra Diego Agustin | 78 |  |  Sajnok Szymon | 78 |  | Dillier Silvan | 78 |  |  Nareklishvili Giorgi | 78 |
Last year's number three Dunbar clearly the favourite to win this race for the first time. His biggest rivals being Durbridge, Beniusis, Bjerg and Howson, with the Benetton Australian trying to win this race for the second time as well. In general you'd think these five names will make out the top-5. But if one or more of them has a bad day during the time trial, there's a large batch of 79 and 78 rated time trialists ready to step in.
Concerning the team's classification, apart from one of these five names Zalgiris and Sony have extra strong names with Kmieliauskas and Paillot, whereas ELCO - ABEA has three 78 rated time trialists at the startline.
Time to look at the sprinters, who can try and win up to three stages and the green jersey.
| Nat. | Name | FL | TT | ST | RS | SP | AC | |  Coquard Bryan | 73 | 65 | 71 | 74 | 84 | 83 | | Farantakis Stylianos | 74 | 72 | 75 | 72 | 81 | 80 |  | Ahlstrand Jonas | 72 | 58 | 71 | 70 | 81 | 79 |  |  Zabel Rick | 74 | 55 | 74 | 70 | 81 | 79 |  |  Liu Jiankun | 74 | 63 | 76 | 69 | 80 | 80 |  | Bonifazio Niccolo | 79 | 55 | 68 | 75 | 80 | 80 |  | Einhorn Itamar | 74 | 62 | 71 | 71 | 80 | 78 |  |  Lutsyshyn Roman | 70 | 64 | 69 | 73 | 79 | 80 |  | Afewerki Elias | 73 | 63 | 77 | 70 | 79 | 80 |  | Perera Madushanka | 71 | 58 | 69 | 73 | 79 | 80 |  |  Coutinho Lionel | 72 | 52 | 75 | 74 | 79 | 80 | | Rodenberg Frederik | 74 | 64 | 70 | 77 | 79 | 79 | | Adomaitis Rojus | 75 | 67 | 66 | 74 | 79 | 78 |  |  Kamberaj Xhuliano | 75 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 79 | 78 |  | Nur Hasan Sandy | 74 | 59 | 74 | 74 | 79 | 78 |  | Harrison Sam | 72 | 72 | 73 | 70 | 78 | 81 |  | Kulikovskiy Alexandr | 73 | 64 | 70 | 73 | 78 | 79 |  | Losch Max | 73 | 62 | 72 | 68 | 78 | 79 |
All of these names might just win one or more stages. Coquard as the top favourite, but his former team will try to score with Farantakis. The Greek also has a decent time trial in his legs, so enough bonus seconds might mean some GC points as well. Same can be said for Harrison. Quite a lot of 80+ sprinters at the startline, so it will be interesting to see who can make the most out of it.
Good luck to all, startlist in spoiler below. Shoutout to local rider  Albalooshi who will be participating with Zain - Omantel.
Spoiler  Afewerki Elias
Durbridge Luke
Quispe Alain
Bdadou Youssef
Aquilani Andrea
Bonello Daniel
Sprenger Felix
Martino Stan
Beniusis Justas
Adomaitis Rojus
Kmieliauskas Rokas
Becis Armands
Dakteris Janis
Kopfauf Markus
Kochetkov Mikhail
Raugala Gustas
Farantakis Stylianos
Boutopoulos Georgios
Ioannidis Nikolaos
Kiriakidis Ioannidis
Stavrakakis Georgios
Koumpetsos Anastasios
Affini Edoardo
Christapopoulos Pangiotis
Darbinyan Varsham
Pacher Quentin
Wackermann Luca
Erdenesuren Munkhtulga
Gougeard Alexis
Serrano Javier
Le Berre Mathis
Agirrebeitia Mikel
Dunbar Eddie
Nur Hasan Sandy
Gani Abdul
Venturini Clement
Arif Prayogo Dealton Nur
Doull Owain
Kusuma Terry
Firdaus Prasetyo
Ferreyra Diego Agustin
Harrison Sam
Sepulveda Eduardo
Chokri El Mehdi
Andersen Idar
Dlamini Nicholas
Mraouni Salah Eddine
Jurado Cristofer Robin
Paillot Yoann
Losch Max
Heymes Gilles
Wohler Alex
Degenkolb John
Laurance Axel
Bayer Tobias
Kabas Maximilian
Zabel Rick
De Buyst Jasper
Rumac Josip
Cherkasov Nicolay
Ludvigsson Tobias
Mathis Marco
Tesfom Sirak
Destribois Alex Ariya
Bonifazio Niccolo
Gamper Patrick
Potocki Viktor
Sajnok Szymon
Siddikov Dilmurdjon
Suter Joel
Van Den Bossche Fabio
Weemaes Sasha
Kamberaj Xhuliano
Kiskonen Siim
Sarreau Marc
Merlier Tim
Groselj Ziga
Yzeiraj Marildo
Demiri Mikel
De Pooter Dries
Liu Jiankun
Vanbilsen Kenneth
Zana Filippo
Van Aert Wout
Price-Pejtersen Johan
Berckmoes Jenno
Fagundez Eric Antonio
Changsheng Sun
Coquard Bryan
Huertas Jason
Chumil Sergio
Mendoza Bryan Fernando
Arias Villanueva Sergio
Gomez German Dario
Peden George
Jimenez Dylan Roberto
Ahlstrand Jonas
Bjerg Mikkel
Sommer Jan
Casillas Jhonatan
Gomez Fausto Agustin
Dressler Luca
Guavita Cesar David
Paleni Enzo
Einhorn Itamar
Eislers Sandis
Dulanjana Sachin
Noia Carlo
Maccagli Andrea Enrico
Skivild Robin Juel
Van Sintmaartensdijk Roel
Garofoli Gianmarco
Tivani German Nicolas
Cardona Julian
Nyoni Similo
Hamza Faycal
Obando Bryan Raul
Lopez Harold Martin
Revelo Franklin Joel
Fisher-Black Finn
Cataford Alexandor
Kuroeda Saya
Howson Damien
Kulikovskiy Alexandr
Yechezkel Aviv
Hayter Leo
Trezise Declan
Singh Ronaldo Laitonjam
Coutinho Lionel
De Vos Adam
Milan Jonathan
Svestad-Bardseng Embret
Malacarne Alex
Kench Josh
La Grenade Jeremie
Marsman Tim
Lutsyshyn Roman
Manamalage Nipuna Shira
Tanovitchii Nicolae
Golovash Oleksandr
Varga Peter
Kachur Dmytro
Bilyi Maksym
Ponomar Andrii
Jacobs Johan
Perera Madushanka
Van Asbroeck Tom
Haugard Phan Age
Dillier Silvan
Blum Elia
Maciejuk Filip
Weiss Fabian
Lecourt De Billot Olivier
Nareklishvili Giorgi
Peng Yuan Tan
Vingerling Michael
Glivar Gal
Murn Bostjan
Kunkumpai Kantaphon
Tulett Ben
Rodenberg Frederik
Pedersen Casper
Norsgaard Mathias
Iversen Rasmus
Enggaard Victor Grue
Pedersen Rasmus Sojberg
Malmberg Matias
Holm Jorgensen Adam
Altanzul Maani
Saber Lahcen
Buratti Nicolo
Al-Wahibi Mohammed
Zahiri Abderrahim
Ballerstedt Maurice
Alajmi Abdulhadi
Albalooshi Khalid
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 10-03-2025 05:39
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Big expectations with two riders who should be in contention for the Top 5 in the TT. Hopefully, we don't get any funny business in the flats. Also hoping Kulikovskiy can pick up some scraps in an extremely packed sprint field.
Thanks for the preview 
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 10-03-2025 06:21
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Not Dunbar again 
Thanks for the previews!
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| quadsas |
Posted on 10-03-2025 09:24
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Gotta expect two Top 10 GC finishes. Could be a big scorer if Adomaitis can also score some. letsa go
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| whitejersey |
Posted on 10-03-2025 10:45
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Thanks for the preview! I hope that Coutinho can pull off an upset here!
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Posted on 05-12-2025 16:47
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 10-03-2025 15:07
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Thanks Nemo for the preview
Don't have a good TT'er so all eyes on the sprint stages with Liu.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 10-03-2025 17:54
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Looking to do well in the sprints and be in that battle from 10th - 20th on GC
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 10-03-2025 19:30
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I think the first race of the year where Bjerg has a realistic shot at a good GC, let's see how many points he will score
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| SotD |
Posted on 10-03-2025 20:48
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We have a very solid depth here for the TT, but we need for one of them to punch above their weight for the race to be interesting. Farantakis indeed has a good SPR and TT combo. If the TT would have been 10km shorter it might have meant something, but I can't see him fend off the top TT'ers even if he should end up winning 3 stages. Which we obviously know he won't.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 11-03-2025 00:32
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I'm hoping my top TTers can grab a top 20 GC slot and maybe surprise above a few 78 guys. Not sure what can exactly be done, but we'll see.
Tivani will surely not even contest the sprints, but hopefully my other guys can find some breakaways as well! No idea how this is going to go but Manada better be asked to bring back breakaways on their own.
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 11-03-2025 20:17
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Not a great sprint from Ahlstrand but there will be more opportunities. Sommer with his moment to shine
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 11-03-2025 20:37
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Sommer 
Cool to see both of my loaned-out riders find some success in PCT - Christen obviously with the big bang in TDU, and now Sommer with a day in white Shouldn't be the worst jersey to wear in the desert
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 12-03-2025 05:22
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Poor from Kuli again. He's not been on it since the high of Hanko. Hopefully we improve from here.
Thanks for the report!
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| Eden95 |
Posted on 12-03-2025 08:56
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That is a wild top-10, so many second and third tier sprinters. This engine is so wacky.
Thanks for the lovely preview! Dunbar should be a shoe in for a good result, where he winds up is probably dependant on daily form I’d say. Hoping he can take this one home, but nothing is ever given.
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| SotD |
Posted on 12-03-2025 17:59
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This is one of those races where we shoppe have probably allowed more bonus seconds to make the GC a bit more interesting.
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| Ollfardh |
Posted on 12-03-2025 18:22
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Bonifazio back to his old bad self.
Changed my sig, this was getting absurd.
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| Bushwackers |
Posted on 12-03-2025 19:57
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Glad to see Perera showing up for this one! We'll see what happens in the TT but it's been a great race so far, thanks for the reports.
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| seancoll |
Posted on 12-03-2025 21:03
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Tivani is actually try to sprint which makes me very happy, even though things have not quite worked out for points.
S3 is what we came here for though and I'm excited
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 12-03-2025 21:35
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That is a much better sprint from Jonas
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| AbhishekLFC |
Posted on 13-03-2025 05:11
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Another poor result for us...
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