While Opening Weekend may take the attention of the cycling world away from the UAE Tour, there is a link between the desert racing and the Spring Classics, and from a tech point of view it always comes back to tyres.
On stage 5 of the UAE Tour, Lotto Dstny’s Thomas De Gendt blew his tyre out, seemingly out of nowhere, especially given the reliably smooth nature of the roads used in the UAE Tour.
