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Feb 1, 2023 Press Conference

THE TEAMS FOR THE 2023 EDITION OF UAE TOUR ARE ANNOUNCED

Sixteen UCI WorldTeams and four UCI ProTeams will race in the fifth edition of the UAE Tour, starting 20 February

United Arab Emirates, 2 February 2023 – Abu Dhabi Sports Council, organisers of the UAE Tour, are pleased to confirm the full list of teams participating in the 2023 edition of the UAE Tour, taking place from 20-26 February. Across seven stages, sixteen UCI WorldTeams will be joined by four UCI ProTeams that will race along the unique roads of the Middle East, starting and finishing in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE Tour has seen its two most recent General Classification victories go to UAE Team Emirates, with Tadej Pogacar winning both editions in 2021 and 2022. Mitchelton-Scott (now Team Jayco-AlUla) secured the lead the year before with Adam Yates topping the standings in 2020, and in 2019, Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma secured the race’s first-ever red jersey.

UAE Team Emirates has also enjoyed the most time in the red leader’s jersey since the UAE Tour’s inception, with Tadej Pogačar wearing it for an impressive 10 stages so far. Primoz Roglic meanwhile, has donned the jersey for a total of seven stages, and in third, Adam Yates has also worn it three times. Elsewhere, Alpecin-Fenix (now Alpecin-Deceuninck) have also held the leader’s jersey for three stages, with Jasper Philipsen wearing it for two stages in 2022 and Mathieu van der Poel once in 2021.

The UAE Tour will be the second WorldTour stage race in the 2023 UCI calendar, following the Santos Tour Down Under won by Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates. As with past editions, the fifth edition of the one and only UCI WorldTour race in the Middle East will see the world-class professional teams, including Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, INEOS Grenadiers and Soudal – Quick Step at the start line. The full list of confirmed teams is as follows:

UCI WorldTeams ● AG2R Citroen Team ● Alpecin-Deceuninck ● Astana Qazaqstan Team ● Bahrain – Victorious ● BORA – hansgrohe ● EF Education – Easypost ● Groupama – FDJ ● INEOS Grenadiers ● Intermarché – Circus – Wanty ● Jumbo-Visma ● Movistar Team ● Soudal – Quick Step ● Team DSM ● Team Jayco AlUla ● Trek – Segafredo ● UAE Team Emirates

UCI ProTeam ● Lotto-Dstny ● Israel – Premier Tech ● Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè ● Tudor Pro Cycling Team

A full provisional entry list of riders will be announced in due course. To find out more about the UAE Tour, including details of the official race route, jerseys and sponsors, visit www.theuaetour.com .

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THE TEAMS FOR THE 2023 EDITION OF UAE TOUR ARE ANNOUNCED

• 02 Feb 2023
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Abu Dhabi Sports Council, organisers of the UAE Tour, are pleased to confirm the full list of teams participating in the 2023 edition of the UAE Tour, taking place from 20-26 February. Across seven stages, sixteen UCI WorldTeams will be joined by four UCI ProTeams that will race along the unique roads of the Middle East, starting and finishing in Abu Dhabi.

The UAE Tour has seen its two most recent General Classification victories go to UAE Team Emirates, with Tadej Pogacar winning both editions in 2021 and 2022. Mitchelton-Scott (now Team Jayco-AlUla) secured the lead the year before with Adam Yates topping the standings in 2020, and in 2019, Primoz Roglic of Jumbo-Visma secured the race's first-ever red jersey.

UAE Team Emirates has also enjoyed the most time in the red leader's jersey since the UAE Tour's inception, with Tadej Pogačar wearing it for an impressive 10 stages so far. Primoz Roglic meanwhile, has donned the jersey for a total of seven stages, and in third, Adam Yates has also worn it three times. Elsewhere, Alpecin-Fenix (now Alpecin-Deceuninck) have also held the leader's jersey for three stages, with Jasper Philipsen wearing it for two stages in 2022 and Mathieu van der Poel once in 2021.

The UAE Tour will be the second WorldTour stage race in the 2023 UCI calendar, following the Santos Tour Down Under won by Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates. As with past editions, the fifth edition of the one and only UCI WorldTour race in the Middle East will see the world-class professional teams, including Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, INEOS Grenadiers and Soudal - Quick Step at the start line.

The full list of confirmed teams is as follows:

UCI WorldTeams

• AG2R Citroen Team
• Alpecin-Deceuninck
• Astana Qazaqstan Team
• Bahrain - Victorious
• BORA - hansgrohe
• EF Education – Easypost
• Groupama – FDJ
• INEOS Grenadiers
• Intermarché – Circus – Wanty
• Jumbo-Visma
• Movistar Team
• Soudal - Quick Step
• Team Jayco AlUla
• Trek – Segafredo
• UAE Team Emirates

UCI ProTeam

• Lotto-Dstny
• Israel - Premier Tech
• Green Project-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè
• Tudor Pro Cycling Team

A full provisional entry list of riders will be announced in due course. To find out more about the UAE Tour, including details of the official race route, jerseys and sponsors, visit www.theuaetour.com .

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Participants list

• Johan Jacobs
• Juri Hollmann
• Einer Rubio
• Albert Torres
• Oier Lazkano
• Óscar Rodríguez
• Fernando Gaviria

Stages will be broadcast live every day on Eurosport and GCN , starting at 11.50am CET approx.

All stages will end around 1.30pm CET, except for the TTT, which should finish around 12.30pm. The schedules below at this Guide, next to the profile, are GST, three hours more.

There will be 10-6-4″ at every road stage finish, plus 3-2-1″ at the intermediate sprints.

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• 01 Tim Merlier Soudal – Quick Step 3h17'35"
• 02 Caleb Ewan Lotto – Dstny "
• 03 Mark Cavendish Astana Pro Team "
• 26 Albert Torres Movistar Team +51"
• 30 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 41 Einer Rubio Movistar Team "
• 78 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team "
• 102 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team "
• 110 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team "
• 121 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team +1'42"
• 01 Soudal – Quick Step 18'17"
• 02 EF Education-EasyPost +1"
• 03 INEOS Grenadiers +3"
• 16 Movistar Team +35" Team: Oier Lazkano Einer Rubio Óscar Rodríguez Albert Torres Juri Hollmann Johan Jacobs Fernando Gaviria
• 01 Einer Rubio Movistar Team 4h51'24"
• 02 Remco Evenepoel Soudal – Quick Step +14"
• 03 Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates +15"
• 20 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team "
• 62 Albert Torres Movistar Team +8'54"
• 87 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team +17'30"
• 114 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team +19'41"
• 115 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "
• 116 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team "
• 01 Sebastián Molano UAE Team Emirates 3h50'01"
• 02 Olav Kooij Jumbo – Visma "
• 03 Sam Welsford Team DSM "
• 11 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 41 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "
• 52 Einer Rubio Movistar Team "
• 87 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team "
• 88 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team "
• 120 Albert Torres Movistar Team "
• 122 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team "
• 01 Dylan Groenewegen Team Jayco-AlUla 3h57'07"
• 02 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 03 Sam Bennett Bora-Hansgrohe "
• 35 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "
• 54 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team "
• 63 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team "
• 64 Einer Rubio Movistar Team "
• 86 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team "
• 96 Albert Torres Movistar Team "
• 01 Tim Merlier Soudal – Quick Step 3h41'12"
• 02 Sam Bennett Bora-Hansgrohe "
• 03 Dylan Groenewegen Team Jayco-AlUla "
• 37 Einer Rubio Movistar Team "
• 42 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team "
• 105 Albert Torres Movistar Team "
• 106 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team "
• 121 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team +50"
• 129 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team +1'25"
• 130 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team +1'59"
• 01 Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates 3h29'42"
• 02 Remco Evenepoel Soudal – Quick Step +10"
• 03 Geoffrey Bouchard AG2R Citroën Team +42"
• 16 Einer Rubio Movistar Team +1'48"
• 24 Óscar Rodríguez Movistar Team +2'22"
• 64 Juri Hollmann Movistar Team +7'29"
• 65 Albert Torres Movistar Team "
• 85 Oier Lazkano Movistar Team +10'12"
• 121 Fernando Gaviria Movistar Team +19'13"
• 127 Johan Jacobs Movistar Team "

The Movistar Team heads into the 2023 men’s UAE Tour with its focus set on the sprinting chances of Fernando Gaviria, while also keeping other scenarios in mind. We can’t forget Carlos Verona achieved a valuable sixth spot overall with tenacity and class over the key mountain stages.

The two uphill finishes from that year are back in 2023: the long, steady Jebel Jais (Wednesday 22nd) , the highest peak in the country; and the more demanding, while always on wide roads, Jebel Hafeet (Sunday 26th) .

Between those, there will be really dangerous stages in the crosswinds -especially the opening one to Al Mirfa (Monday 20th)- and a 17 km TTT, the first one of the season, at the Khalifa Port (Tuesday 21st). Stages four -Dubai; Thursday 23rd-, five -Umm al Quwain; Friday 24th- and six -Abu Dhabi; Saturday 25th- are clearer ‘volata’ opportunities.

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UAE Tour 2023: Schedule, Stages, Routes, Live Stream and Teams

The UAE Tour 2023 is scheduled to start on February 20. We will discuss the schedule, live stream, stages, and course of the tournament here.

The tournament will be stepping into its fifth year in 2023, and it has become one of the most thrilling sports competitions in UAE in such a short time. The racers will have to complete 7 stages and travel 1,028.2 km to finish the race.

Tadej Pogačar has been one of the most successful racers in the event, he won the title in 2022 and 2021. But, we will not see him in this edition. Belgian cyclist and the Vuelta a España 2022 Champion Remco Evenepoel will race for his new team Soudal Quick Step in the tour.

This will be the first race for Adam Yates, the Runner-Up of the tournament in 2023. We will also see racers like Luke Plapp, Jay Vine, Tom Gloat, and many more in this year’s tournament.

When is UAE Tour 2023?

The race will begin on Monday, 20 February, and will continue till Sunday, 26 February. There will be no break during the 7 stages.

UAE Tour 2023 Schedule and Stages:

• Stage 1: Monday, 20 February
• Stage 2: Tuesday, 21 February
• Stage 3: Wednesday, 22 February
• Stage 4: Thursday, 23 February
• Stage 5: Friday, 24 February
• Stage 6: Saturday, 25 February
• Stage 7: Sunday, 26 February

Routes and Course:

How to watch the race on tv.

The Cycling fans of the UK will be able to watch the UAE Tour 2023 on Eurosport from the United Kingdom. So, subscribe to the channel and start watching this exciting tour live on your TV box.

How to Live Stream the UAE Tour 2023?

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• Alpecin–Deceuninck
• Astana Qazaqstan
• Team Bora–Hansgrohe
• EF Education–EasyPost
• Groupama–FDJ
• Ineos Grenadiers
• Intermarché–Circus–Wanty
• Movistar Team
• Soudal–Quick-Step
• Team Bahrain Victorious
• Team Jayco–AlUla
• Team Jumbo–Visma
• Trek–Segafredo
• UAE Team Emirates
• Green Project–Bardiani–CSF–Faizanè
• Israel–Premier Tech
• Lotto–Dstny Tudor
• Pro Cycling Team

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UAE Tour 2024

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Stage 7: Lennert Van Eetvelt wins UAE Tour with stage victory atop Jebel Hafeet

Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto-Dstny) won the overall title at the UAE Tour after winning the final summit finish to Jebel Hafeet on the finale stage 7. 

The Belgian powered clear with 1.7km remaining to claim stage victory by 22 seconds from Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) and Ben O’Connor (Decathlon-AG2R).

Van Eetvelt secured the overall title by two seconds ahead of Ben O'Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and 11 seconds ahead of Pello Bilbao (Bahrain - Victorious).

Stage 6: Tim Merlier completes hat-trick of wins

Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) continued his rich run of winning form by notching up his third victory of the UAE Tour on stage 6 to Abu Dhabi. The Belgian’s well-timed effort saw him beat Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor) and Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) to the line in another frantic bunch sprint.

Overall leader Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates) carries a buffer of 11 seconds into Sunday’s final stage, which features a summit finish at Jebel Hafeet.

Stage 5: Olav Kooij beats Tim Merlier in stage 5 photo finish

It was the closest sprint yet at the UAE Tour, with Olav Kooij (Visma-Lease a Bike) narrowly denying Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) his hat-trick of stage wins on stage 5 in a photo-finish victory.

Merlier was majorly out of position in the final kilometre, forced to launch from way down in the peloton, with Kooij starting his sprint on the right-hand side of the road off the back of a strong Astana Qazaqstan lead out for Mark Cavendish.

As the Brit ran out of steam, Kooij made his dart for the line and just managed to pip Merlier by a few millimetres at the line with a great bike throw. Sam Welsford (Bora-Hansgrohe) was third.

Stage 4: UAE Tour: Tim Merlier wins stage 4 from chaotic sprint

Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) doubled up on wins at the 2024 UAE Tour with a second stage win after latching onto Olav Kooij's (Visma-Lease a Bike) early dart for the line and slingshotting out of the Dutchman's wheel. Kooij dropped to third at the line as Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor Pro Cycling) also came around him.

Top sprinters Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), Sam Welsford (Bora-Hansgrohe) and Fabio Jakobsen (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) failed to crack the top five after a hectic final rush for the important last corner left them out of position with the Australian also getting held up by a crash.

The late crash 2.6km from the finish managed to avoid the GC leaders despite slightly delaying  Jay Vine's (UAE Team Emirates) arrival at the finish, meaning the Australian carries his 11-second lead on Ben O'Connor into the fifth stage.

Stage 3: UAE Tour: Ben O'Connor strikes out for stage 3 victory atop Jebel Jais

Ben O'Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) outfoxed the other GC favourites to take victory on stage 3 of the UAE Tour after launching a perfectly timed tandem attack with teammate Valentin Paret-Peintre in the final 1.2km of the Jebel Jais climb.

The Australian held off the chase from  Jay Vine  (UAE Team Emirates) in second and Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny) in third after they failed to make contact following the opportunistic move.

But the Aussie's second-place finish and six bonus seconds gained meant he moved into the race lead ahead of teammate Brandon McNulty as the American struggled in the final sprint.

O'Connor gained ten bonus seconds with the win, moving him up to second overall, 11 seconds down on Vine while McNulty slipped to third, a further two seconds back.

Stage 2:   UAE Tour: Brandon McNulty wins time trial as home team claim 1-2-3

The USA's Brandon McNulty led UAE Team Emirates to a 1-2-3 in the 12.1km time trial stage on Hudayriyat Island south of Abu Dhabi, winning the stage in a time of 13:27. Jay Vine and Mikkel Bjerg completed the all UAE Team Emirates podium as they took control of their 'home' stage race.   

Former world time trial champion Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) is now their closest overall rival after losing 14 seconds to McNulty.  Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious)  can also not be ruled out after he lost 19 seconds and finished fourth overall in 2023. 

Stage 1: UAE Tour: Tim Merlier wins as late pile-up disrupts sprint

Tim Merlier (Soudal-Quick Step) won the first sprint of the 2024 UAE Tour, avoiding the chaos of a crash in the peloton with 250 metres to go and surging past Fernando Gaviria (Movistar) and Juan Sebastián Molano (UAE Team Emirates) to win with his arms in the air. 

The crash happened in sight of the finish, with a touch of wheels causing a number of riders to crash at 70 km/h. Arvid de Kleijn (Tudor Pro Cycling) and Jakub Mareczko (Corratec-Vini Fantini) came through to take second and third also passing Gaviria who faded to sixth in the final hundred metres. 

Thanks to a ten-second time bonus for his stage victory, Merlier pulled on the race leader’s red jersey. However, stage 2 is a 12.1km time trial around Al Hudayriyat Island near Abu Dhabi, with the overall contenders and time trial specialists expected to dominate the results. 

UAE Tour 2024 Information

The UAE Tour returns for a sixth edition in 2024, taking place over seven days from Madinat Zayed on February 19 to Jebel Hafeet on February 25. In 2024, the lone WorldTour race in the Middle East is positioned as the third event on the WorldTour calendar for men, as the Tour Down Under and Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race returned to their January slots.

The UAE Tour launched in 2019 when two existing races merged, the Abu Dhabi Tour and the Dubai Tour. Primož Roglič won the inaugural race. Last year, Remco Evenepoel claimed the overall victory besting Luke Plapp and Adam Yates. In 2022, Tadej Pogačar won the overall title for the second year in a row, making it a replay of 2021 as he finished in front of runner-up Adam Yates. 

In 2024, the route, which includes two mountain-top finishes and one individual time trial, is rounded out by four flat stages.  The final stage culminates with the climb of Jebel Hafeet which has been the grand finale of the seven-day stage race on multiple occasions. It has become a defining climb in the Middle East, having been part of the Abu Dhabi Tour and now the UAE Tour. The climb sits on one of the highest mountains in the United Arab Emirates and near the border with Oman. 

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UAE Tour stages

From Madinat Zayed to Jebel Hafeet, 985km over seven stages in United Arab Emirates, find out more about the 2024 UAE Tour route .

• Stage 1, Al Dhafra Walk Madinat Zayed-Liwa Palace, 143km
• Stage 2, Al Hudayriyat Island ITT, 12.1km
• Stage 3, Al Marjan Island-Jebel Jais, 176km
• Stage 4, Dubai Police Officer’s club-Dubai Harbour, 173km
• Stage 5, Al Aqah-Umm al Quwain, 182km
• Stage 6, Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum-Abu Dhabi Breakwater, 138km
• Stage 7, Al Ain Bait Mohammed Bin Khalifa-Jebel Hafeet, 161km

UAE Tour contenders

Cycling’s biggest GC stars won’t be starting their 2024 seasons at the UAE Tour with the previous two winners of the race, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-QuickStep) opting for early programmes in Italy and Portugal.

But in their absence still remains a strong GC field with Tour de France podium sitter and winner of the recent Tour of Oman, Adam Yates set to line up as the heavy favourite. The Brit is a former winner from 2020 and has sat on the podium of the last four editions. 

He’ll face close, but friendly competition from inside his team as Brandon McNulty and Jay Vine also feature on their starting roster here. Vine and McNulty may be better suited to the flat 12km individual time trial on stage 2, but Yates’ dominance on the most important climb - Jebel Hafeet - may prove the difference come the end of stage seven.

The Brit has won twice up the decisive climb and after blitzing the field up Green Mountain at last week’s Tour of Oman, he will be the man to beat on Jebel Hafeet. It makes up one of the three decisive moments for the GC contenders at 11km in length with an average gradient of 7%, alongside stage three’s summit finish on Jebel Jais (19km at 5.6%) which often ends in a reduced-bunch finish for the climbers and the stage 2 flat ITT.

Making his debut at the race is Ben O’Connor (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) , who could certainly feature in the latter stages on Hafeet and stick with Yates, alongside runner-up from 2023 Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla). 

Plapp’s form is unknown after a tough period of racing Down Under, but he is entering the race as the road race and time trial national champion. He’ll enjoy any echelons and should have the advantage over the other GC contenders in the Al Hudayriyat Island time trial.

Bubbling under the known contenders for overall victory which also includes Pello Bilbao (Bahrain-Victorious) is a whole host of youth talents hoping to step up against Yates. Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal-QuickStep) has already proved himself to an extent but a top WorldTour stage race result looks imminent. 

His countryman Lennert Van Eetvelt (Lotto Dstny) will be another rider under 23 hoping to show himself and his punch in a late sprint should make him strong up stage three’s Jebel Jais finish. Max Poole (DSM-Firmenich PostNL) will look to kick on in his second senior season after showing his talents in Romandie and at the Dauphiné last season.

The UAE Tour is incredibly important for the home team so Yates won’t want to be missing any echelons as he did in 2023. It also forms part of his run into the Tour de France where he was the best climbing domestique last year for Pogačar and his form will be vital should the Emirati team be able to defeat the reigning two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike).

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2024 Zurich Classic odds, field: Surprising PGA picks, predictions by model that's nailed 11 majors

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In addition, McClure's best bets included Nick Taylor (70-1) winning the 2023 RBC Canadian Open, Jason Day (17-1) winning outright at the 2023 AT&T Byron Nelson, and Rickie Fowler (14-1) finishing on top of the leaderboard at the 2023 Rocket Mortgage Classic.

This same model has also nailed a whopping 11 majors entering the weekend and hit the Masters three straight years. Anyone who has followed it has seen massive returns.

Now that the Zurich Classic 2024 field is finalized, SportsLine simulated the tournament 10,000 times, and the results were surprising. Head to SportsLine now to see the projected leaderboard .

Top 2024 Zurich Classic predictions 

One major surprise the model is calling for at the Zurich Classic 2024: McIlroy and Lowry, who've combined for 26 wins on the PGA Tour, barely crack the top five. McIlroy is set to play in his fourth consecutive event when he tees off at TPC Louisiana. He's failed to crack the top-10 in seven of his eight starts on the PGA Tour this season, while Lowry has finished T-19 or worse in six of his past eight events. 

Both players have struggled mightily on the green this season. McIlroy enters the 2024 Zurich Classic ranked 78th in strokes gained: putting (0.119) and 72nd in putting average (1.758), a big reason why he ranks 98th in scoring average (70.44). Lowry, meanwhile, ranks 99th in strokes gained: putting (-0.012) and 143rd in putts per round (29.38), which doesn't bode well for their chances to finish on top of the leaderboard this week. 

Another surprise: Rasmus Højgaard and Nicolai Højgaard, 35-1 longshots, make a strong run at the title. The twin brothers have a much better chance to win it all than their odds imply, so they're a target for anyone looking for a huge payday.

The Danish twosome has been making headlines abroad for years now, becoming the first brothers to ever win events in consecutive weeks on the European Tour back in 2021. They are now making noise on the PGA Tour as Nicolai finished second at the Farmers Insurance Open back in January and finished T16 in his first ever Masters appearance earlier this month. Nicolai also played this event last year, so his experience makes the duo an under-the-radar competitor at the 2024 Zurich Classic.  See who else to pick here . 

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The model is also targeting three other teams with odds of 35-1 or longer to make a strong run at the title. Anyone who backs these longshots could hit it big. You can only see the model's picks here .

Who will win the 2024 Zurich Classic, and which longshots will stun the golfing world? Check out the Zurich Classic 2024 odds below and then visit SportsLine to see the projected Zurich Classic leaderboard , all from the model that's nailed 11 golf majors, including the last three Masters.

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Patrick Cantlay / Xander Schauffele +500

Rory McIlroy / Shane Lowry +800

Will Zalatoris / Sahith Theegala +1100

Collin Morikawa / Kurt Kitayama +1600

Tom Hoge / Maverick McNealy +2500

Matt Fitzpatrick / Alex Fitzpatrick +2500

Taylor Pendrith / Corey Conners +3500

Rasmus Højgaard / Nicolai Højgaard +3500

Taylor Montgomery / Ben Griffin +4000

Sepp Straka / Brice Garnett +4000

Nick Taylor / Adam Hadwin +4000

Keith Mitchell / Joel Dahmen +4000

Brice Garnett / Sepp Straka +4000

Thomas Detry / Robert MacIntyre +4500

Doug Ghim / Chan Kim +4500

Davis Thompson / Andrew Novak +4500

Daniel Berger / Victor Perez +4500

Kevin Yu / C.T. Pan +5000

Billy Horschel / Tyson Alexander +5000

Beau Hossler / Sam Ryder +5000

Andrew Putnam / Joe Highsmith +5000

Aaron Rai / David Lipsky +5000

Thorbjorn Olesen / Matt Wallace +6500

Taylor Moore / Matt NeSmith +6500

K.H. Lee / Michael Kim +6500

Greyson Sigg / Chesson Hadley +6500

Gary Woodland / Lee Hodges +6500

Garrick Higgo / Ryan Fox +6500

Austin Eckroat / Chris Gotterup +6500

Steve Stricker / Matt Kuchar +8000

Nate Lashley / Rafael Campos +8000

Luke List / Henrik Norlander +8000

Kevin Streelman / Martin Laird +8000

Dylan Wu / Justin Lower +8000

Davis Riley / Nick Hardy +8000

Chandler Phillips / Jacob Bridgeman +8000

Carson Young / Ben Martin +8000

Ben Silverman / Kevin Dougherty +8000

Zach Johnson / Ryan Palmer +10000

Vincent Norrman / Jorge Campillo +10000

Nico Echavarria / Max Greyserman +10000

Alex Smalley / Matti Schmid +10000

Thriston Lawrence / Aldrich Potgieter +13000

Ryan Brehm / Mark Hubbard +13000

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Sam Stevens / Paul Barjon +15000

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Hot Oceans Worsened Dubai’s Dramatic Flooding, Scientists Say

An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.

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By Raymond Zhong

Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions stunned the world this month. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted.

The downpours weren’t a total surprise — forecasters had anticipated the storms several days earlier and issued warnings. But they were certainly unusual.

Here’s what to know.

Heavy rain there is rare, but not unheard-of.

On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers. These rains often come during El Niño conditions like the ones the world is experiencing now.

U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on April 16 was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949 . And parts of the nation had already experienced an earlier round of thunderstorms in March.

Oman, with its coastline on the Arabian Sea, is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Past storms there have brought torrential rain, powerful winds and mudslides, causing extensive damage.

Global warming is projected to intensify downpours.

Stronger storms are a key consequence of human-caused global warming. As the atmosphere gets hotter, it can hold more moisture, which can eventually make its way down to the earth as rain or snow.

But that doesn’t mean rainfall patterns are changing in precisely the same way across every part of the globe.

In their latest assessment of climate research , scientists convened by the United Nations found there wasn’t enough data to have firm conclusions about rainfall trends in the Arabian Peninsula and how climate change was affecting them. The researchers said, however, that if global warming were to be allowed to continue worsening in the coming decades, extreme downpours in the region would quite likely become more intense and more frequent.

Hot oceans are a big factor.

An international team of scientists has made a first attempt at estimating the extent to which climate change may have contributed to April’s storms. The researchers didn’t manage to pin down the connection precisely, though in their analysis, they did highlight one known driver of heavy rain in the region: above-normal ocean temperatures.

Large parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have been hotter than usual recently, in part because of El Niño and other natural weather cycles, and in part because of human-induced warming .

When looking only at El Niño years, the scientists estimated that storm events as infrequent as this month’s delivered 10 percent to 40 percent more rain to the region than they would in a world that hadn’t been warmed by human activities. They cautioned, however, that these estimates were highly uncertain.

“Rainfall, in general, is getting more extreme,” said Mansour Almazroui, a climate scientist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and one of the researchers who contributed to the analysis.

The analysis was conducted by scientists affiliated with World Weather Attribution, a research collaboration that studies extreme weather events shortly after they occur. Their findings about this month’s rains haven’t yet been peer reviewed, but are based on standardized methods .

The role of cloud seeding isn’t clear.

The U.A.E. has for decades worked to increase rainfall and boost water supplies by seeding clouds. Essentially, this involves shooting particles into clouds to encourage the moisture to gather into larger, heavier droplets, ones that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.

Cloud seeding and other rain-enhancement methods have been tried around the world, including in Australia, China, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Studies have found that these operations can, at best, affect precipitation modestly — enough to turn a downpour into a bigger downpour, but probably not a drizzle into a deluge.

Still, experts said pinning down how much seeding might have contributed to this month’s storms would require detailed study.

“In general, it is quite a challenge to assess the impact of seeding,” said Luca Delle Monache, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Delle Monache has been leading efforts to use artificial intelligence to improve the U.A.E.’s rain-enhancement program.

An official with the U.A.E.’s National Center of Meteorology, Omar Al Yazeedi, told news outlets that the agency didn’t conduct any seeding during the latest storms. His statements didn’t make clear, however, whether that was also true in the hours or days before.

Mr. Al Yazeedi didn’t respond to emailed questions from The New York Times, and Adel Kamal, a spokesman for the center, didn’t have further comment.

Cities in dry places just aren’t designed for floods.

Wherever it happens, flooding isn’t just a matter of how much rain comes down. It’s also about what happens to all that water once it’s on the ground — most critically, in the places people live.

Cities in arid regions often aren’t designed to drain very effectively. In these areas, paved surfaces block rain from seeping into the earth below, forcing it into drainage systems that can easily become overwhelmed.

One recent study of Sharjah , the capital of the third-largest emirate in the U.A.E., found that the city’s rapid growth over the past half-century had made it vulnerable to flooding at far lower levels of rain than before.

Omnia Al Desoukie contributed reporting.

Raymond Zhong reports on climate and environmental issues for The Times. More about Raymond Zhong

Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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payday in the big easy

Here’s the prize money payout for each golfer at the 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans

Tracy Wilcox

It’s team time on the PGA Tour, where, after two weeks of the top stars playing against each other in massive events, there is a brief respite for a week to play in a different format for four days in a much more relaxed atmosphere. Not that they aren’t attempting to bring home the hardware at the Zurich Classic, but the last two weeks were spent grinding at a major championship and a signature event.

This week at TPC Louisiana, however, there are some bigger names in the field than usual, with five of the top 15 players in the world in action. They’re all competing for an $8.9 million overall purse and the winners will both take home $1.286 million.

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Rory McIlroy is making his tournament debut and is playing with Ryder Cup buddy Shane Lowry. Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele, 2022 Zurich winners, are back to make a run. There are three sets of brothers in the field—twins Rasmus and Nicolai Hojgaard, twins Parker and Pierceson Coody, Alex and Matt Fitzpatrick.

Other teams of note: Steve Stricker and Matt Kuchar, Sahith Theegala and Will Zalatoris, Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama, Canadians Nick Taylor and Adam Hadwin.

Here is the prize money rundown for each team who makes the cut. Check back here Sunday after the tournament is over for updates. (Reminder: these figures below are what each player will earn individually)

WIN: $1.286 million

2: $525,100

3: $343,762

4: $289,250

5: $251,425

6: $215,825

7: $180,225

8: $157,975

9: $140,175

10: $122,375

11: $104,575

12: $89,222

13: $74,849

14: $67,195

15: $61,855

16: $56,515

17: $51,397

18: $46,947

19: $42,720

20: $39,160

21: $35,600

22: $32,040

23: $28,489

24: $25,098

25: $22,784

26: $21,627

27: $20,826

28: $20,381

29: $20,025

30: $19,669

31: $19,313

32: $18,957

33: $18,601

34: $18,245

35: $17,889

36: $17,533

37: $17,177

38: $16,821

39: $16,465

40: $16,109

41: $15,753

42: $15,397

43: $15,041

44: $14,685

45: $14,329

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