Tour of Oman 2013 - Stage 1 Race Report

The 2013 Tour of Oman begins with a 162km race from Al Musannah to the Sultan Qaboos University.
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While Oman looks much hillier than last week's Tour of Qatar, stage one is still pretty flat. The peloton let a break go until around 20km from the end, content to let Kohei Uchima and Bobby Traksel pick up the points for intermediate sprints.

Eventually it came down to a bunch sprint today,but we don't expect this to be the same through the rest of the race...

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GC After Stage 1:

1 Marcel Kittel - Argos-Shimano 4:04:49
2 Davide Appollonio - AG2R 0:00:04
3 Bobbie Traksel - Champion System 0:00:04
4 Nacer Bouhanni - FDJ 0:00:06
5 Dominique Rollin - FDJ 0:00:09
6 Sonny Colbrelli - Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:00:09
7 Alexander Kristoff - Katusha 0:00:10
8 Tom Boonen - Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:10
9 Taylor Phinney - BMC 0:00:10
10 Filippo Fortin - Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox 0:00:10

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