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<\/a>Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio on her way to victory in the prologue of Festival Elsy Jacobs 2017. A 2.8 km individual time trial on April 28th 2017, in Cessange, Luxembourg. (Photo by Sean Robinson\/Velofocus).<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cEvery race has just been better and better,\u201d Moolman-Pasio said. \u201cThe Ardennes week is where everything clicked and the signs were there that I was getting back to my normal self. It\u2019s awesome to be on the top step of the podium, it\u2019s confirmation that I am back to where I want to be and the injury is behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n
The South African time trial champion explained that rain made the course a little more unpredictable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started mid-field and it rained at the start of the prologue. The roads were quite wet. I gave it everything but there is that little bit you hold back and I didn\u2019t want to crash. I knew I rode a fast time but I was a little worried that the roads were drying and that would count against me. I\u2019m happy to finish off with the win and it\u2019s more special to have Lisa on the podium with me. She\u2019s had as awesome spring and proven herself as a young rider. In this team, there is more than one rider who could win in a prologue like this and it\u2019s special to be happy for one another and proud as a team. We have some cards to play and want to make sure we end the tour with the yellow jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lotta Lepist\u00f6 and Stephanie Pohl were also in the top ten of the final results. Thanks to the commitment from the incredible team partners, the athletes have continuously been performing at the highest level in the time trial discipline.<\/p>\n
\u201cI again want to thank our partners. The equipment helps us go that much faster \u2013 the suits from Endura, the bikes from Cerv\u00e9lo, Ceramicspeed \u2013 every advantage we could possibly have, we have it in this team so it\u2019s awesome to deliver the win for them,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio stormed to victory during Friday\u2019s Festival Elsy Jacobs prologue. She was followed closely by Lisa Klein who finished second, placing two riders on the podium for Cerv\u00e9lo Bigla Pro Cycling Team. Moolman-Pasio covered the 2.8 kilometre course in a time of four minutes and seven seconds. Klein was one second adrift and leads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[588,1443],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-16768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-ashleigh-moolman-pasio","tag-festival-elsy-jacobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768","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=16768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16768"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=16768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}