The desert racing continues next Tuesday at the Tour of Oman, but a much different form of peloton will be seen here compared to the flat racing of the past weeks in Dubai and Qatar.

The Tour of Oman sees some of the first mountains of the season for the team, and as such Warren Barguil fronts the Giant-Alpecin line-up for this race. It will be Barguil's first outing of the season and with three stages before the mountain-top finish Queen stage, the young Frenchman has time to find his racing legs.

Barguil will be joined by Carter Jones, starting his first race for Team Giant-Alpecin, as well as Nikias Arndt, Bert De Backer, Georg Preidler, Ramon Sinkeldam, Tom Stamsnijder and Tom Veelers all of whom come to the race from the Tour of Qatar.

"Oman is a very different race to Qatar so we are changing our team slightly here," explained coach Marc Reef. "Warren and Carter come in, and it will be the start of their season here. For Warren it's a good chance to see how far he has come over the winter, and to test for a result. It will be Carter's first race and the focus here will be to integrate him into the team and to our way of working.

"It's a diverse race with up to four possible sprints, including three pure sprints and one power sprint. There's also one uphill finish and another difficult stage. Alongside Warren we also have sprinters Nikias and Ramon so we will look to take our opportunities there too."

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Nikias Arndt (GER)
Warren Barguil (FRA)
Bert De Backer (BEL)
Carter Jones (USA)
Georg Preidler (AUT)
Ramon Sinkeldam (NED)
Tom Stamsnijder (NED)
Tom Veelers (NED)