{"id":19573,"date":"2015-07-26T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/26\/dream-tour-de-france-for-team-mtn-qhubeka-r3186\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:16:41","slug":"dream-tour-de-france-for-team-mtn-qhubeka-r3186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/dream-tour-de-france-for-team-mtn-qhubeka-r3186\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Tour de France for Team MTN-Qhubeka"},"content":{"rendered":"

What an incredible end to a perfect debut Tour de France for Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung. Edvald Boasson Hagen sprinted to a fine 4th place on the Champs Elysees for our African team on today’s 21st and final stage. Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) won the final stage while Chris Froome (Team Sky) won the Grande Boucle overall.<\/p>\n

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As the riders set off for Paris earlier today, it would be an incredible day of reflecting back on what was a dream 3 weeks for our African team. From the moment Daniel Teklehaimanot made history by getting the 102nd Tour de France underway in the Eritrean national jersey, we couldn’t have written a more perfect script for what was to come.<\/p>\n

To ride away from the Tour de France after having Daniel spend 4 days in the Polka Dot jersey, a Mandela Day stage win courtesy of Steve Cummings, 14 stage top 10 results including 7 of them being top 5 placing\u2019s, finishing 5th in the overall team competition and a 13th on the General Classification with Serge Pauwels ensured we exceeded all of our own expectations.<\/p>\n

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The exposure we were able to bring to our #BicyclesChangeLives campaign was also a resounding success as we received a massive amount of support from across the globe. We would dearly love to thank everyone: fans, media, fellow competitors, the A.S.O and all of partners for the amazing support we have received over these last 3 weeks. You were all a part of history!<\/p>\n

\nThe Tour has been a dream come true. We had really big aspirations coming into the Tour, we set big goals for ourselves and we managed to meet every one of them so I think we really couldn’t have asked for any more out of the Tour. We won a stage, we wore a leader\u2019s jersey, we flew the flag for the Qhubeka foundation for 21 days and that is a dream come true.
\nTyler Farrar – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n
\nIt was a really good and amazing tour for us. I am the youngest rider in the peloton so to survive all those hard stages it was not easy, I don’t think it is even normal but I am really proud and really happy right now.
\nMerhawi Kudus – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What an incredible end to a perfect debut Tour de France for Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung. Edvald Boasson Hagen sprinted to a fine 4th place on the Champs Elysees for our African team on today’s 21st and final stage. Andre Greipel (Lotto-Soudal) won the final stage while Chris Froome (Team Sky) won the Grande Boucle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3285,232],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573","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=19573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19573"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}