The start of February fro Sky began today, With a short flat stage in Mallorca. The day began with a breakaway of 4, but didn't contain any Sky riders, Even though Ian Boswell tried escaping. With 10km to go the breakaway were in, So sky hit the front with Sir Brad taking a short turn. With 5km to go Vasil Kiryienka hit the front hard with Sky still firmly at the front. Under the 1km banner Gerald Cioleck was at he front with Alexander Kristoff right next to him, Ben Swift was way behind. Alexander Kristoff took it on the line in-front of Manuele Belletti and Andrea Guardini. Ben Swift came 29th he was Sky's highest placed rider. The rest of the team got the same time, Apart from Xabier Zandio who crashed and has sprained his wrist.

weirdskyfan64 wrote:
Why not Sutton lead out EBH?

The beginning of the Tour of Qatar began with a 4 man breakaway which got up to only 2 minutes. At the front of the peloton Edvald Boasson Hagen and then Gabriel Rasch were sharing duties with other teams like omega Pharma, Giant Shimano and Tinkoff Saxo. The first sprint would go to the breakaway and it went to Merhawi Kudus who would take 3 bonus seconds. with Gabriel Rasch doing a lot of work at the front The breakaway had been brung in with 5km to the last Intermediate sprint, So it was up to the peloton and Chris Sutton won it. At the 5km banner everything was still together, except from a few riders dropping out of the back like Gabriel Rasch. At the 1km banner Daniele Bennati was ahead of the field and it was looking promising for him. Marcel Kittel took it on the line from Daniele Bennati. Pre-race favourite Mark Cavendish came 6th just ahead of old team mate Chris Sutton. Edvald Boasson Hagen came in 10th which was a great effort to say it was his first race in 2014, The rest of the Sky riders came in the main group except Rasch.

Well hopefully Chris Sutton, But Thanks.

Adamb wrote:
YvesStevens - Is that good or bad for Farrar, It was a great effort from him not being one of the best sprinters on the tour.

Matthew21rp - Hope so.

The second day of Qatar began with a 3 man breakaway. Both Gabriel Rasch and Danny Pate both went to the front to share duties to make sure the breakaway didn't get to far, They only got up to 3 minutes but managed t stay out until 20km taking both sprints. The first sprint was won by Nico Eechkout and the 2nd was won by Jaco Venter. With 10km to go things weren't looking good for Sky as there train was about halfway down the shortened 60 man peleton, But improved with Luke Rowe peeling of the front and Powerhouse Bernhard Eisel dragged the train up to the front of the peloton. And at the 1km banner the whole train was ahead of the peloton with Sutton looking promising for victory. SUTTON AND HAGEN!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 2 on the line ahead of the peloton with beating old team-mate Mark Cavendish, That would have been sweat. Bernhard Eisel and Ian Stannard also came in the the top 10 coming 7th and 8th. Luke Rowe and Gabriel Rasch were the only team to drop time on the peloton. Things were looking good for Stannard and Kness with the TT tomorrow only being 13 seconds down