Tour Of Oman
The Tour of Oman is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Oman since 2010 as part of the UCI Asia Tour. It was scheduled to become part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, but both the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. History The race is classified as a 2.HC (as of 2012). The race is organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation, and was held for the first time between 14 and 19 February 2010. The race is a men's competition consisting of six stages. The race contains mainly flat stages, with some hillier parts. During the race, the leader of the General Classification wears a red jersey, the leader of sprinter's points classification is denoted by a green jersey and best young rider by white. The race does not contain a mountains jersey. The most aggressive rider wears a white jersey with green and red polka-dots. The inaugural edition of the race in 2010, consisted of 6 stages, beginning with a 16-lap criterium in Musc ...
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2015 Tour Of Oman
The 2015 Tour of Oman was the sixth edition of the Tour of Oman cycling stage race. It was rated as a UCI race classifications, 2.HC event on the 2015 UCI Asia Tour, and was held from 17 to 22 February 2015, in Oman. The race was organised by the municipality of Muscat, in collaboration with Amaury Sport Organisation, ASO (the organisers of the Tour de France) and Paumer. Chris Froome, the defending champion from 2013 Tour of Oman, 2013 and 2014 Tour of Oman, 2014, was not present to defend his title. The decisive stage in this as in past editions was the climb of Jebel Akhdar (Oman), Jebel Akhdar. That stage was won by Rafael Valls of , who went on to defend his overall race lead to the finish in Muscat. This was aided by the controversial events of stage 5, which was eventually abandoned due to extreme weather conditions. Tejay van Garderen () finished second (as he had in 2014) and Alejandro Valverde () finished third. The points competition was won by Andrea Guardini (), who w ...
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