{"id":20021,"date":"2015-05-11T04:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/05\/11\/tour-of-california-tyler-farrar-kicks-off-with-8th-r2538\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:57:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:57:36","slug":"tour-of-california-tyler-farrar-kicks-off-with-8th-r2538","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/tour-of-california-tyler-farrar-kicks-off-with-8th-r2538\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of California: Tyler Farrar kicks off with 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening stage of the Amgen Tour of California would see the expected bunch sprint with race favourite, Mark Cavendish (Etixx-Quickstep) taking the victory. Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) was 2nd and Jean-Pierre Drucker (BMC Racing) 3rd.<\/p>\n

At just over 200km in length but with a pan flat profile, it was almost certain that the finish would be decided by a mass sprint. The 4 riders that broke away early on knew their efforts would only result in some T.V time and the chance to race for a few sprint primes. Etixx-Quickstep, Tinkoff-Saxo and MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were in control of proceedings all stage as they all had high hopes for their team sprinters. With 10km to go, the race was all together.<\/p>\n

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MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were riding in support of Tyler Farrar today and the American would be our highest placed finisher in 8th place. The run in to the line was a little less than ideal as Tyler, Theo Boss and Johann van Zyl all punctured inside of 20km to go. Nevertheless our African team still had a strong presence during the finale with 4 riders right at the business end of the peloton with just 4km to go.<\/p>\n

The wide open roads on the finishing circuit made it difficult to stay up near the front, also making the timing of the team leadout all that more important. Etixx-Quickstep would be the team that got it spot on today, delivering Cavendish to an easy win the end.<\/p>\n

\nToday was a hectic a finish, we got a little over ambitious and hit the front a couple of km’s too early. That is our lesson learned for tomorrow. Everyone is looking strong and so today was our day to work out the kinks.
\nTyler Farrar – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The opening stage of the Amgen Tour of California would see the expected bunch sprint with race favourite, Mark Cavendish (Etixx-Quickstep) taking the victory. Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) was 2nd and Jean-Pierre Drucker (BMC Racing) 3rd. At just over 200km in length but with a pan flat profile, it was almost certain that the finish would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2739,553,3285,2731,2116],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-amgen-tour-of-california","tag-mark-cavendish","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tour-of-california","tag-tyler-farrar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021","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=20021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20021"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}