{"id":16586,"date":"2017-07-01T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2017\/07\/01\/highlights-geraint-thomas-powers-to-opening-stage-win-r6698\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T06:36:35","slug":"highlights-geraint-thomas-powers-to-opening-stage-win-r6698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/highlights-geraint-thomas-powers-to-opening-stage-win-r6698\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Geraint Thomas powers to opening stage win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The highlights from the opening stage of the 2017 Tour de France. An individual time trial through the city of D\u00fcsseldorf in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The stage was won by Team Sky&#8217;s Geraint Thomas while his team mate Chris Froome distanced himself from his rivals with a powerful showing. Unfortunately, yellow jersey contender Alejandro Valverde crashed out of the Tour after sliding out and hitting a barrier on a wet corner.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/07e_uXhRRm4?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">30 Second Highlights:<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/98qIe0e0zZ0?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"text-2xl font-bold\">GoPro &#8211; Stage 1<\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k8H9unXXqow?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highlights from the opening stage of the 2017 Tour de France. An individual time trial through the city of D\u00fcsseldorf in Germany. The stage was won by Team Sky&#8217;s Geraint Thomas while his team mate Chris Froome distanced himself from his rivals with a powerful showing. Unfortunately, yellow jersey contender Alejandro Valverde crashed out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[232],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}