{"id":18768,"date":"2016-02-04T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2016\/02\/04\/cavendish-finishes-10th-on-2nd-dubai-stage-r4092\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T08:43:32","slug":"cavendish-finishes-10th-on-2nd-dubai-stage-r4092","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/cavendish-finishes-10th-on-2nd-dubai-stage-r4092\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavendish finishes 10th on 2nd Dubai stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2nd stage of the Dubai Tour was a crash affected affair that Elia Viviani (Team Sky) would win. Sacha Modolo (Lampre-Merida) was in 2nd place and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) finished 3rd.<\/p>\n

Four riders would animate today’s stage, Koen De Kort (Giant Alpecin), Marcin Bialoblocki (One Pro), Francisco Mancebo (Skydive) and Silvain Dillier (BMC) were the attackers. As all well-known riders, with a fair amount of firepower, the peloton were not going to allow this quartet all that much breathing space. 2 minutes would be the limit to their advantage today as Etixx-Quickstep and Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka were the two most prominent teams leading the chase.<\/p>\n

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Songezo Jim was the rider from our African Team seen to be doing a large majority of the early chase work, in order to set up a sprint for Mark Cavendish. At just 2 minutes\u2019 lead, it would be a long hard day in the desert for the break before they were caught with 10km to go. Once the catch was made, a number of teams rallied at the front of the peloton to position their sprinters.<\/p>\n

Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka were riding alongside Etixx-Quickstep leading into the final 5km, well positioned for the finale. Some bumping and barging saw our boys lose each other\u2019s wheels which put Cav a few places back. With 2km to go the race went through a kilometer-long tunnel, and on emerging there was a crash at the front of the bunch. Fortunately, none of our riders went down but Cav, already coming from a few places back had to close a gap to get back to the wheel of Gaurdini. As the sprint opened up at the front, our fast man just wasn’t in a position to challenge for the win, rolling across the line in 10th place today.<\/p>\n

\nThe plan is clear; we are going for Cav every day. Today the crash in the final messed with our plans a bit. Cav is looking really good though and we are going to keep on trying, tomorrow is another day and another chance.
\n Songezo Jim – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n
\nThe boys did a good job for most of the stage today. Songezo was helping Quickstep from about halfway through the race, controlling the break and keeping them on a short hand. The final was a bit messy, they had to change the last 5 kilometers because of road works and the finish now took place just 1 kilometer after coming out of a kilometer-long tunnel. This made things a bit tricky and in the end we weren’t able to deliver the top result today.
\n Jens Zemke – Sport Director<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2nd stage of the Dubai Tour was a crash affected affair that Elia Viviani (Team Sky) would win. Sacha Modolo (Lampre-Merida) was in 2nd place and Giacomo Nizzolo (Trek-Segafredo) finished 3rd. Four riders would animate today’s stage, Koen De Kort (Giant Alpecin), Marcin Bialoblocki (One Pro), Francisco Mancebo (Skydive) and Silvain Dillier (BMC) were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3118,553],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-18768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-dubai-tour","tag-mark-cavendish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768","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=18768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18768"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=18768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}