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Tadej Poga\u010dar\u2019s Grand Tour lieutenant Adam Yates kicked off 2025 the same way he started last year\u2019s road season, by winning the five-stage Tour of Oman. Though the UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG rider failed to win a stage, two second places in the race\u2019s two mountain stages and his consistency were enough to give him a narrow 6-second GC victory over Valentin Paret-Peintre, the French Soudal-QuickStep rider expected to play a big part in Remco Evenepoel\u2019s Grand Tour ambitions this year. Another French climber, David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), finished third, 39 seconds adrift.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The race was decided in the final kilometer, on the steep climb to the summit finish on Green Mountain (5.7km @ 10.5%!). Gaudu came into stage 5 with a lead of 6 seconds over Yates, with Paret-Peintre sitting fourth, 18 seconds behind. From the bottom of the final climb, which was always seen as the race decider, UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG riders did what they do better than any other team, setting a blistering pace to drop or exhaust potential rivals on behalf of their leader, Yates. By the time Rafa\u0142 Majka and Jay Vine had finished their turns, only Paret-Peintre and Gaudu remained to contest the finish with Yates.<\/p>\n

Gaudu held on until Yates took the lead in the final kilometer and upped the pace when, according to L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/a>, the Frenchman said he \u201ccompletely exploded.\u201d Gaudu went on to say, “When you have the leader’s jersey in the morning and you lose it on the last stage, it’s obviously disappointing. I gave it my all. I fought hard today and in the end I gave up. I completely exploded in the last kilometer. If there’d been a one-second gap overall, there would have been a lot of frustration, but there’s nothing to say about that. I blew the engine. They were stronger than me. I can only bow my head and say well done to them.”<\/p>\n

He would fade badly and finish third in the stage, 45 seconds behind the winner. As the Frenchman was struggling, Yates and Paret-Peintre duked it out for the stage win, with the 24-year-old Frenchman proving strongest and beating Yates to the line by 2 seconds to take a rare stage victory, after winning a stage in last year\u2019s Giro d\u2019Italia.<\/p>\n

Paret-Peintre told Wielerflits<\/a> after the race that his initial plan had been to go for the overall race victory on the Green Mountain climb. “I tried to drop Yates about 2 kilometers from the finish, but I saw that he was very good and so I focused on the stage. It was a great fight. That I ultimately won here is no surprise to me. I felt that my form was very good. It\u2019s great to start the season like this with my new team. There are no \u2018small victories\u2019 in cycling anymore. I am therefore very happy that I was able to win here. I wanted to win one race in 2025 and I have already succeeded.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the young Frenchman improves, he will be a valuable addition to Evenepoel\u2019s Soudal\u2013QuickStep support team, perhaps even replacing the 35-year-old Mikel Landa as the top lieutenant in the mountains.<\/p>\n

But the race belonged to Yates, who shows no sign of weakening at age 32. \u201cI think we knew already from the start of the week that this would be the key stage,\u201d he was quoted as saying on his team\u2019s website<\/a>. \u201cThere was a hard climb on stage 3, but it was a little bit shorter and more explosive, so it didn\u2019t suit my characteristics quite as well as today. We waited for today, and it turned out to be a good day.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to say\u2014words that would please Poga\u010dar and make his rivals wary\u2014that he entered the race not yet at his best. \u201cI think I said at the beginning of the week that I\u2019m not actually in top shape right now,\u201d Yates said. \u201cI need to be good for a long time later in the year, so I\u2019m happy to be at this level and fighting for the win. It\u2019s a good sign for the future and I\u2019m just happy to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a consolation, Paret-Peintre won the race\u2019s points classification competition just ahead of Visma\u2013Lease a Bike\u2019s rising young sprint star Olav Kooij, who won both of the race\u2019s bunch sprint finishes. The 23-year-old Dutch rider will try to win his first Grand Tour green jersey when he rides in the Giro d\u2019Italia in May.<\/p>\n

2025 Tour of Oman Final GC Standings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Adam Yates, UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG \u2013 21:13:18<\/li>\n
  2. Valentin Paret-Peintre, Soudal-QuickStep \u2013 + 0:06<\/li>\n
  3. David Gaudu, Groupama-FDJ \u2013 0:39<\/li>\n
  4. Damien Howson, Q.36 \u2013 1:07<\/li>\n
  5. Cian Uijtdebroeks, Visma\u2013Lease a Bike \u2013 1:16<\/li>\n
  6. Chris Harper, Jayco-AlUla \u2013 1:22<\/li>\n
  7. Wout Poels, XDS Astana \u2013 1:23<\/li>\n
  8. Embret Svestad-B\u00e5rdseng, Arkea\u2013B&B Hotels \u2013 1:27<\/li>\n
  9. Marco Brenner, Tudor Pro \u2013 1:37<\/li>\n
  10. Simon Dalby, Uno-X Mobility \u2013 2:05<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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