The Marco Polo Cycling Team can look back at a successful Tour of Thailand. Brad Hall was doing very well on GC, just a split second away from the yellow jersey with only one stage to go. In the last stage a group managed to get away and took just 20 seconds too many on the field for Brad to win the Tour. He finished 6th overall. Other successes were the 2nd place in stage 5 of Brad, and 2 times a 4th place and 4 top ten placings for Haidar Anuawar. Haidar also became 2nd in the overall points classification.

Brad Hall from the Marco Polo Cycling Team. (photo: Remko Kramer)

Brad Hall from the Marco Polo Cycling Team became 2nd in stage 5 and also moves up into 2nd overall in the Tour of Thailand. He made a great move by joining the break-away of the day in stage 5 of the Tour of Thailand. With hard work and strong riding the group managed to keep almost one minute at the finish line. Brad Hall who finished 2nd in the stage also moved up to the 2nd place in the general classification, only split seconds away from the yellow jersey! He has the exact same time as new race leader Kohei Uchima from Japan. But was a few hundreds of a second slower in the prologue time trial.     

Brad Hall from the Marco Polo Cycling Team, close to winning the Tour of Thailand... (photo: Remko Kramer)

All will depend on todays last stage of 190 km now – in which Brad will have all support of Loh and Haidar of course. An interesting fight coming up, in which bonus seconds at intermediate sprints could be decisive!
Unfortunately Jonathan Lovelock and Khalid Bounida had to drop out due to incidents in the race (flat tires at the wrong moment and crashes).