{"id":44183,"date":"2024-02-20T11:32:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T11:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2024\/?p=44183"},"modified":"2024-03-01T14:12:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T14:12:06","slug":"de-pretto-continues-impressive-run-with-third-on-tour-of-oman-stage-four-to-move-into-top-10-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/de-pretto-continues-impressive-run-with-third-on-tour-of-oman-stage-four-to-move-into-top-10-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"De Pretto continues impressive run with third on Tour of Oman stage four to move into top-10 overall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Italian neo-pro <strong>Davide De Pretto<\/strong> continued his impressive start to the season with a strong sprint to third place on a tough stage four finish at the <strong>Tour of Oman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After racking up two top-10 finishes at the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and a 10th place at the Muscat Classic, the 21-year-old had already displayed his potential before another 10th place finish on stage two in Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>De Pretto now climbs up to seventh overall on the general classification after making the reduced bunch that contested the demanding finish to today\u2019s stage four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blake Quick<\/strong> gave <strong>Team Jayco AlUla<\/strong> representation in the early breakaway, but as the escapees came back ahead of the hilly finale, De Pretto stayed alert and followed the dangerous moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Italian then positioned himself well inside the final kilometre before sprinting to third on the stage to move into the top-10 overall with one day remaining.<br><br><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Davide De Pretto (3rd):<\/span><\/strong><br><em>&#8220;It was a hard stage today because it was short and intense with all the climbs concentrated in the finale. I have to thank all the team and in a special way Durbridge for his great job in positioning me into the last climb and taking me to the sprint.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maybe I waited too much in the sprint, so Capiot anticipated me but of course third place is a good result for me. Tomorrow is the last stage, I still have good legs and I hope I can confirm my top-10 overall.&#8221;<\/em><br><br><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2024 Tour of Oman Stage 4 &#8211; Results:<\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br><\/span><\/strong>1. Amaury Capiot 2:17:37<br>2. Ide Schelling ST<br>3. <strong>Davide De Pretto (Team Jayco AlUla)<\/strong> ST<br><br><em>Photo: Sprint Cycling<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian neo-pro Davide De Pretto continued his impressive start to the season with a strong sprint to third place on a tough stage four finish at the Tour of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[296,386],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44185,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44183\/revisions\/44185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}