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).