2015 Abu Dhabi Tour full entry list – Teams and riders



Below, the full entry list for the 2015 Abu Dhabi Tour, which begins on Thursday.

Astana Pro Team:

1 – Vincenzo Nibali; 2 – Fabio Aru; 3 – Andrea Guardini; 4 – Alexey Lutsenko; 5 – Diego Rosa; 6 – Ruslan Tleubayev

BMC Racing Team:

11 – Philippe Gilbert; 12 – Marcus Burghardt; 13 – Daniel Oss; 14 – Manuel Quinziato; 15 – Manuel Senni; 16 – Danilo Wyss

Bora-Argon 18:

21 – Emanuel Buchmann; 22 – Patrick Konrad; 23 – Dominik Nerz; 24 – Lukas Postlberger; 256 – Michael Schwarzmann; 26 – Paul Voss

Colombia:

31 – Edwin Avila; 32 – Alex Cano; 33 – Daniel Martinez; 34 – Sebastian Molano; 35 – Carlos Quintero; 36 – Mario Carlos Ramirez Botero

Drapac Pro Cycling:

41 – Graeme Brown; 42 – Brendan Canty; 43 – William Clarke; 44 – Brenton Jones; 45 – Travis Meyer; 46 – Adam Phelan

Etixx-Quick-Step:

51 – Tom Boonen; 52 – Gianluca Brambilla; 53 – Fabio Sabatini; 54 –Stijn Vandenbergh; 55 – Carlos Verona Quintanilla; 56 – Lukasz Wisniowski

Lampre-Merida:

61 – Sacha Modolo; 62 – Davide Cimolai; 63 – Rui Costa; 64 – Manuele Mori; 65 – Diego Ulissi; 66 – Gang Xu

Movistar Team:

71 – Alejandro Valverde; 72 – Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle; 73 – Javier Moreno Bazan; 74 – Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil; 75 – Marc Soler Gimenez; 76 – Giovanni Visconti

MTN-Qhubeka:

81 – Matthew Harley Goss; 82 – Theo Bos; 83 – Songezo Jim; 84 – Youcef Reguigui; 85 – Andreas Stauff; 86 –Daniel Teklehaimanot

Orica GreenEdge:

91 – Michael Matthews; 92 – Sam Bewley; 93 – Johan Esteban Chaves Rubio; 94 – Mathew Hayman; 95 – Jens Keukeleire; 96 – Christian Meier

Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling:

101 – Mohammed Al Murawwi; 102 – Soufiane Haddi; 103 – Khalid Ibrahim; 104 – Francisco Mancebo; 105 – Andrea Palini; 106 – Rafaa Schtioui

Team Giant-Alpecin:

111 – Marcel Kittel; 112 – Tom Dumoulin; 113 – Johannes Frohlinger; 114 – Cheng Ji; 115 – Luka Mezgec; 116 – Albert Timmer

Team Katusha:

121 - Maxim Belkov; 122 – Jacopo Guarnieri; 123 – Dmitry Kozoncuk; 124 – Alberto Losada Alguacil; 125 – Eduard Vorganov; 126 – Anton Vorobyev

Team Sky:

131 – Elia Viviani; 132 – Andrew Fenn; 133 – Sebastian Henao Gomez; 134 – Wouter Poels; 135 – Leopold Konig; 136 – Ben Swift

Team Wiggins:

141 – Luc Hall; 142 – Christopher Lawless; 143 – Iain Paton; 144 – Daniel Patten; 145 – Dan Pearson; 146 – Michael Thompson

Tinkoff Saxo:

151 – Peter Sagan; 152 – Daniele Bennati; 153 – Manuele Boaro; 154 – Bruno Pires; 155 – Juraj Sagan; 156 – Matteo Tosatto

UAE National Team:

161 – Ahmed Al Mansouri; 162 – Ammar Ali Ibrahim Abdullah; 163 – Jaber Al Mansouri; 164 – Khayyam Sodir Shir Mohammed; 165 – Majid Al Baloushi; 166 – Talal Soudir Shir Mohammed

United HealthCare Pro Cycling:

171 – Marco Canola; 172 – Alessandro Bazzana; 173 – Janez Brajkovic; 174 – John Murphy; 175 – Tanner Putt; 176 – Federico Zurlo

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Tuesday's fixtures
Group A
Kyrgyzstan v Qatar, 5.45pm
Iran v Uzbekistan, 8pm
N Korea v UAE, 10.15pm
Why it pays to compare

A comparison of sending Dh20,000 from the UAE using two different routes at the same time - the first direct from a UAE bank to a bank in Germany, and the second from the same UAE bank via an online platform to Germany - found key differences in cost and speed. The transfers were both initiated on January 30.

Route 1: bank transfer

The UAE bank charged Dh152.25 for the Dh20,000 transfer. On top of that, their exchange rate margin added a difference of around Dh415, compared with the mid-market rate.

Total cost: Dh567.25 - around 2.9 per cent of the total amount

Total received: €4,670.30 

Route 2: online platform

The UAE bank’s charge for sending Dh20,000 to a UK dirham-denominated account was Dh2.10. The exchange rate margin cost was Dh60, plus a Dh12 fee.

Total cost: Dh74.10, around 0.4 per cent of the transaction

Total received: €4,756

The UAE bank transfer was far quicker – around two to three working days, while the online platform took around four to five days, but was considerably cheaper. In the online platform transfer, the funds were also exposed to currency risk during the period it took for them to arrive.

THE SPECS

Engine: 6.75-litre twin-turbocharged V12 petrol engine 

Power: 420kW

Torque: 780Nm

Transmission: 8-speed automatic

Price: From Dh1,350,000

On sale: Available for preorder now

The five pillars of Islam

1. Fasting 

2. Prayer 

3. Hajj 

4. Shahada 

5. Zakat 

At a glance

Global events: Much of the UK’s economic woes were blamed on “increased global uncertainty”, which can be interpreted as the economic impact of the Ukraine war and the uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs.

 

Growth forecasts: Cut for 2025 from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. The OBR watchdog also estimated inflation will average 3.2 per cent this year

 

Welfare: Universal credit health element cut by 50 per cent and frozen for new claimants, building on cuts to the disability and incapacity bill set out earlier this month

 

Spending cuts: Overall day-to day-spending across government cut by £6.1bn in 2029-30 

 

Tax evasion: Steps to crack down on tax evasion to raise “£6.5bn per year” for the public purse

 

Defence: New high-tech weaponry, upgrading HM Naval Base in Portsmouth

 

Housing: Housebuilding to reach its highest in 40 years, with planning reforms helping generate an extra £3.4bn for public finances

Skewed figures

In the village of Mevagissey in southwest England the housing stock has doubled in the last century while the number of residents is half the historic high. The village's Neighbourhood Development Plan states that 26% of homes are holiday retreats. Prices are high, averaging around £300,000, £50,000 more than the Cornish average of £250,000. The local average wage is £15,458.