{"id":20517,"date":"2015-02-11T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/02\/11\/tour-of-qatar-4-jaco-venter-attacks-in-the-wind-r2036\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:18:00","slug":"tour-of-qatar-4-jaco-venter-attacks-in-the-wind-r2036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/tour-of-qatar-4-jaco-venter-attacks-in-the-wind-r2036\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Qatar #4: Jaco Venter attacks in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 4th stage of the Tour of Qatar saw Jaco Venter go on the offensive, attacking with Dimitry Gruzdev (Astana) and Jarl Salomein (Topsport-Vlaanderen) after just 10km of racing. The trio built a lead of up to 3’45” at one stage before the prevailing winds ignited the chase from the peloton.<\/p>\n

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The escape was not to be despite the brave effort from the attackers. The sprinters teams nullified the gap with 18km remaining and a nervy bunch sprint then ensued. Team MTN-Qhubeka p\/b Samsung were in the mix for the finale and with 8km we were in control of the peloton.<\/p>\n

Coming into the finish though the fight for position intensified and in the end Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) took the victory on the line, edging Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) into 2nd place and Nikias Arndt (Giant-Alpecin) was 3rd across the line. Niki Terpstra (Etixx-Quickstep) held on to his overall lead.<\/p>\n

\nWe went away after 10km. I was hoping for a lot of crosswind but it was all headwind so maybe it wasn’t the best decision to be in the break because it was a really tough day. At some stages we were really fighting to just ride at 30km\/h. I suppose we can say it was a good day of training.
\nJaco Venter – Rider<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n
\nJaco Venter was away from kilometer 10, he fought all day and was caught in the final 20km. It was a fantastic ride by him today. Then there was a big sprint and we were part of it but unfortunately there was a big crash in front of Edvald so our riders lost each other. This caused us to be without a top result or even a top 10 but it is okay, the boys are riding well.
\nJens Zemke – Head of Performance<\/cite>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 4th stage of the Tour of Qatar saw Jaco Venter go on the offensive, attacking with Dimitry Gruzdev (Astana) and Jarl Salomein (Topsport-Vlaanderen) after just 10km of racing. The trio built a lead of up to 3’45” at one stage before the prevailing winds ignited the chase from the peloton. The escape was not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[317,3308,3285,3106],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-20517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-jaco-venter","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka","tag-team-mtn-qhubeka-p-b-samsung","tag-tour-of-qatar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517","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=20517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20517"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=20517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}