Ireland’s David McCann (RTS Racing Team) on his way to today’s start
Following the significant splits on yesterday’s stage of the Tour of Qatar, the penultimate stage today (Thursday) was a more controlled affair with Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) galloping home for his second stage win.
Matt Brammeier and his Omega Pharma-Quickstep team succeeded in holding the bunch together to protect the GC lead of Tom Boonen, with a group of 80 arriving at the finish in tact after a breezy stage of 160kms.
Brammeier just got trailed off the back of the main group in the closing kilometre after his work was done, losing 33 seconds.
David McCann reported a comfortable day and finished in the same time as the winner.
“It was a bit windier today; 160km with lots of changes in direction so it could have been carnage,” McCann told stickybottle.
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“But Quickstep did a great job of just policing the bunch and it never really kicked off in a big way.”
“Still there were a few splits on some sections but everything came back together each time for another nice 28.5mph stage and Cav again finding his way through the chaos to get another win.”
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“I was pretty comfy today myself. But after Pozzato yesterday cursed "this Shit race", it was on the calmer day today that we’d the big road-blocking crash we were all waiting for and he broke his collarbone. Somehow I don't think he will be back at this race.”
Tomorrow’s final stage is a short 120kms in Doha.
Stage 5
1 Mark Cavendish (GB) Sky Procycling 3:30:40
2 Daniel Oss (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale
3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Liquigas-Cannondale
4 John Degenkolb (Ger) Project 1t4i
5 Rüdiger Selig (Ger) Katusha
6 Allan Davis (Aus) GreenEdge Cycling Team
49 David McCann (Irl) RTS Racing Team same time
87 Matt Brammeier (Irl) Omega Pharma-Quick Step at 33 seconds
General Classification
1 Tom Boonen (Bel) Omega Pharma-QuickStep 13:21:30
2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin-Barracuda 0:00:31
3 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Sky Procycling 0:00:34
4 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 0:00:36
5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Sky Procycling 0:00:45
6 Tom Veelers (Ned) Project 1t4i 0:01:00
63 Matt Brammeier (Irl) Omega Pharma-Quick Step 4:16
80 David McCann (Irl) RTS Racing Team 5:10
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