I thought so. Anyway: very great, I will follow closely!!!

18.2 19:30

Hi I´m in middle of tour of oman right before the mountain stage so why not make a little recap what happend in flat stages?

Here are my teammates in Oman:


Profile of 1st stage:


In first stage there were 5 guys in BOD but they get caught 15km before the finnish. We made a great lead out for Jose. I was first one to be in front and I think I did a good job but with 7km to go it was up to others.
But José just missed the podium and ended up 4th. Mathew Goss is the first winner in Oman.



Stage:

1	Matthew Harley Goss	Orica GreenEDGE	3h39'02
2	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
3	Matteo Pelucchi	Team Europcar	s.t.
4	José Joaquín Rojas Gil	Movistar Team	s.t.
5	Manuel Belletti	Ag2r La Mondiale	s.t.

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Profile of stage 2 is little bit uphil at the end that could be good for José.



This stage was almost same as the one before 4 riders were in break and get caught 12km before the finnish. Because it was uphil at the end I was the last who lead-out José. But I started to sprint too early end I was burned 1.5 km before the uphil finnish so José didn´t had a chance.
He ended only 18th. Bazayev was unexpected winner he came ahead of BMC duo Hushovd and Gilbert.




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3rd stage was easier than flat because to the half of the race it was downhill. I took it easy today because I started to save my self for the Mountain stage.



Breakaways in this years Oman are not a good choice cause this time they were caught 13km before the finnish. José found a wheel of Hushovd and it was good choice. But yet another time he ended 4th Thor 3rd Daniele Bennati 2nd and winner was Goss.



GC:

1	Matthew Harley Goss	Orica GreenEDGE	9h56'11
2	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 20
3	Thor Hushovd	BMC Racing Team	+ 30
4	Assan Bazayev	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
5	Jonas Aaen Jørgensen	Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank	+ 38

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Stage 4:



Today it was a little bit different breakaway was caught on the last of the bigger hills but then 8 strong riders attacked.
They created a gap of 1 minute so we started to chase I was in the peloton saving my energy. With 3km to the finnish we caught them but José was badly placed. I was the only one who had enough energy so I bring him to the front of the pack than José started to sprint. He came 5th.



Stage:

1	Thor Hushovd	BMC Racing Team	4h06'48
2	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
3	Allan Howard Davis	Orica GreenEDGE	s.t.
4	Assan Bazayev	Astana Pro Team	s.t.
5	José Joaquín Rojas Gil	Movistar Team	s.t.

GC:

1	Matthew Harley Goss	Orica GreenEDGE	14h02'59
2	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 8
3	Thor Hushovd	BMC Racing Team	+ 10
4	Assan Bazayev	Astana Pro Team	+ 30
5	Jonas Aaen Jørgensen	Team Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank	+ 38

Points:

1	Thor Hushovd	BMC Racing Team	25	69
2	Matthew Harley Goss	Orica GreenEDGE	0	67
3	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	20	66
4	Assan Bazayev	Astana Pro Team	14	51
5	Manuel Belletti	Ag2r La Mondiale	7	41
6	José Joaquín Rojas Gil	Movistar Team	12	40

Tomorow I will report you stage where I will be the main character. Atleast I hope so.

Good luck in the mountainous stage!

Thanks I will need it

Let's go an conquer the high hills of Oman!

Hey Rui, I was wondering what you can tell us about your doping ban that you recently returned from? Are you clean now?

And good luck on the mountain tomorrow!

Hi today we were riding the stage I was waiting for since I known I will ride in Oman.


But I have to say I´m not in great shape and in the morning I wasn´t feeling good at all.

Today 7 riders tried their luck and atacked.



Best climber of them is surely Rubiano Chavez.
They soon created a gap of 4minutes.
With 110 km to go it was even 6 minutes but than Orica started to do the pace.



Gap was slowly decreasing and with 20 km to go it was only 1 minute.

With 14 km left Hushovd and Bennati attacked. Weird.



But after 8km they get caught.
Then with 5km left and quater of the climb already been climbed
I knew I won´t do nothing my stomach hurt like a hell but I wanted to finnish atleast in top 20. I said to David Lopez Garcia to go on his own and he ended on a nice 8th place. After another 2km Jose Rujano was sure that he will win today. He was 1 minute in front of the pack and lead was still growing.



He came ahead of Kessiakof by 48 seconds and so he is the new GC leader.

I came 16th.



I will go to bed and tommorow Is the last stage in this race, thank god.

Here is a winner



Stage:

1	José Humberto Rujano Guillén	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	4h01'14
2	Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 47
3	Jonathan Hivert	Saur - Sojasun	+ 59
4	Yury Viktorovich Trofimov	Katusha Team	s.t.
5	Philippe Gilbert	BMC Racing Team	+ 1'13

GC:

José Humberto Rujano Guillén	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	18h04'43
Fredrik Carl Wilhelm Kessiakoff	Astana Pro Team	+ 55
Matthew Harley Goss	Orica GreenEDGE	+ 58
Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 1'06
Thor Hushovd	BMC Racing Team	+ 1'08

I have to go now my Stomach hurts like hell. I hope I will be able to finnish the race. Then I will answer all your questions.

Rui.

Lets hope your stomach gets better and you can enjoy the race once more

Agree with Sutty

Hi now it´s after the final stage so I will tell you what happened.

Today´s profile:


I felt a little bit better today so I finnished the race.
Today was on profile KOM sprint in all tour of oman so anyone will win it will win the KOM jersey.
And because of that we sent Lopez to the break.
With 0.8 km before the sprint he gave his all and won it!



Lopez won our only Jersey here in Oman.
Breakeway got caught with 7km before the finish.
José found a wheel of Daniele Bennati and it turns out to be a good choice as Daniele won.


Mathew Goss came 2nd Davis 3rd and José ended 4th.



Rujano Wins GC!
2nd Mathew Goss
3rd Daniele Bennati

So that´s it from me I´ll see you in Paris.

Rui.

Nice finish to the race for Rojas

yes he is pretty happy with resuluts but he didnt manage podium so he is little bit dissapointit
thanks for your coments


Rui

Well, it was a good race to build up form, anyway, Rojas came close to the podium, and he'll be looking to improve results over the season

yes hard wind in oman for sure helped to build up my form.
Im glad that you are following.

Rui

Hi Guys it´s evening after the 3rd stage of Paris-Nice so let´s check what happend.

We came here with strong squad:



Stage 1 ITT



I started last from our team.



I was only 8th seconds behind the leader on the first time check.
But then started more difficult part with technical downhill and than flat to finnish.
I lost 29 seconds on the second part of the race.
I ended 40th.



Sylvian Chavanel won in his home country and with a big margin of 8 seconds to Tony Martin and 10 seconds to Peter Sagan.



Stage:

1	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	12'21
2	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 8
3	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	+ 10
4	Jens Voigt	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 13
5	Gustav Erik Larsson	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.

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Stage 2 was a stage for sprinters so and it also ended in a mass sprint.
We got blocked and José mananged only 11th place.
Peter Sagan take his 3rd win in the season and now is only 4 seconds behind Sylvian in GC.



Stage:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	4h12'57
2	Tyler Farrar	Garmin - Sharp	s.t.
3	Mark Cavendish	Sky ProCycling	s.t.
4	Tom Boonen	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	s.t.
5	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.

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Stage 3 was for punchy sprinters so Sagan was the biggest favourite.



3 riders were today in BOD and get caught right before the final climb.
José found a wheel of Peter. Than Peter started to Sprint and was 10 km faster than everybody else. What a show of power.
He won by 7 meters. José ended 5th.



Stage:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	4h39'32
2	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
3	Jonathan Hivert	Saur - Sojasun	s.t.
4	Simon Gerrans	Orica GreenEDGE	s.t.
5	José Joaquín Rojas Gil	Movistar Team	s.t.

GC:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	9h04'48
2	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 2
3	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 10
4	Jens Voigt	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 15
5	Gustav Erik Larsson	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.

Points:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	25	70
2	Tom Boonen	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	10	43
3	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	15	40
4	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	22	38
5	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	7	29

Tommorow is another flat stage with some hills before finnish.
Maybe we will try something with Visconti.

Rui

Let's hope for a good result for Visconti!

thanks Ian hope Rui will be able to help him. or maybe Visconti will help Rui

The Team is definantly strong, so i predict a top ten at the least on the Final GC

Hi its evening after 4th stage.



I can tell you it was awfull I can´t even write report we just totally blew it.
Our plan was to get José in front of the pack but we get stucked and José ended on horrible 16th place.
Peter showed another great sprint finnish end is now 22 seconds in front of Chavanel.



Stage:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	4h27'39
2	Óscar Freire Gómez	Katusha Team	s.t.
3	Daniele Bennati	RadioShack-Nissan	s.t.
4	Michael Albasini	Orica GreenEDGE	s.t.
5	Leonardo Fabio Duque	Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne	s.t.

GC:

1	Peter Sagan	Liquigas-Cannondale	13h32'07
2	Sylvain Chavanel	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 22
3	Tony Martin	Omega Pharma-QuickStep	+ 30
4	Jens Voigt	RadioShack-Nissan	+ 35
5	Gustav Erik Larsson	Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team	s.t.

Tommorow is finnaly first hilly stage.

Rui

Very unfortunate riding today. But I guess you're a bit happy because Sagan won