{"id":20361,"date":"2015-03-13T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/03\/13\/tyler-farrar-sprints-to-fifth-on-stage-2-of-tirreno-adriatico-r2194\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:11:43","slug":"tyler-farrar-sprints-to-fifth-on-stage-2-of-tirreno-adriatico-r2194","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/tyler-farrar-sprints-to-fifth-on-stage-2-of-tirreno-adriatico-r2194\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Farrar sprints to fifth on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Farrar finished fifth in the bunch sprint closing the second stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. A crash in the closing meters marred the finale, but Farrar was ahead of the scene. MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung worked hard to set up the sprint, leading the peloton into the final kilometer.<\/p>\n

Tyler opened the sprint with 150 meters to go, but was overtaken by Jens Debusschere (Lotto Soudal) who took the win from of Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) and Sam Bennet (Bora-Argon18).<\/p>\n

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A seven-man break group dominated the stage, escaping five kilometers into the day and staying away some 130 kilometers with a gap of up to six minutes. MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung was visible near the front in the closing 10 kilometers, moving to the front with four kilometers to go. The final 20 kilometers were marked by a series of crashes, fortunately without MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung participation.<\/p>\n

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The team did really well today. I never experienced being lead-out by such experienced guys in my career, so I really have to thank all of them. I couldn’t turn it into a win today but I am sure that this will come. It feels good to receive such a support and to be able to spread Qhubeka’s message in this way.
\nTyler Farrar – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nI am very happy with how the team rode today. We did a very good lead out and were also lucky to avoid any crashes. Top5 is a good result considering that the team we have at Tirreno-Adriatico is racing together for the first time. It is convincing to see how they did and we look forward to the next stages.
\nAlex Sans Vega – Sports Director<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tyler Farrar finished fifth in the bunch sprint closing the second stage of Tirreno-Adriatico. A crash in the closing meters marred the finale, but Farrar was ahead of the scene. MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung worked hard to set up the sprint, leading the peloton into the final kilometer. Tyler opened the sprint with 150 meters to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3308,3285,3004,2116],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tirreno-adriatico","tag-tyler-farrar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361","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=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}