Fuglsang targeting strong finish at Tour of Oman

Astana may have lost any chance of overall victory at the Tour of Oman with Vincenzo Nibali but the team still has hopes for the general classification. Jakob Fuglsang and Andrei Grivko both made it into the front group, keeping alive their hopes of a solid overall finish with three stages still remaining.
 
Thanks to his climbing pedigree, Fuglsang will be the favourite to lead the team to a good overall result but with one rider already out of contention they won’t put all their eggs into one basket.
 
“I think I will be the leader for the GC, and maybe share it with Grivko. We will have to see how it goes and if he can go full gas on the climb,” Fuglsang told Cyclingnews at the start of stage three of the Tour of Oman. “A lot of things can happen and they predict more wind tomorrow so we have to be careful too.”
 
Fuglsang is making his season debut in Oman, as are many of his teammates, after only racing for six days since finishing last year’s Tour de France. With an frenetic finish to the second stage and the temperatures constantly hovering around 35 degrees or higher, the Danish rider is feeling his efforts of the first two days of racing this season.

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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.