{"id":21550,"date":"2013-09-23T08:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/09\/23\/orica-greenedge-earns-silver-medal-in-team-time-trial-at-road-worlds-r971\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:22:49","slug":"orica-greenedge-earns-silver-medal-in-team-time-trial-at-road-worlds-r971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/orica-greenedge-earns-silver-medal-in-team-time-trial-at-road-worlds-r971\/","title":{"rendered":"ORICA-GreenEDGE earns silver medal in Team Time Trial at Road Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t fault anyone. If we had gone nine-hundredths of a second faster, we would be world champions today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-12890200-1379921004.jpg\" data-fileid=\"269029\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"269029\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-41808-0-12890200-1379921004.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-12890200-1379921004.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">Image credit: ORICA-GreenEDGE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ORICA-GreenEDGE narrowly missed the top step of the podium and a world title in Florence, Italy in the team time trial at the Road World Championships. The Australian outfit settled for the silver medal, an improvement over the bronze they earned in 2012, after stopping the clock .81\u201d slower then repeat team time trial world champions Omega Pharma-QuickStep. Sport Director Matt White was full of praise for his squad that included Brett Lancaster, Daryl Impey, Jens Mouris, Luke Durbridge, Michael Hepburn and Svein Tuft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be so close to winning a world title over an hour effort is a little disappointing,\u201d White admitted. \u201cSometimes it\u2019s easier to swallow when it\u2019s a bigger margin. We know what it\u2019s like to win by such a small margin, too. We just edged out Quick-Step at the Tour. Today they turned the tables on us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"bg-slate-100 p-5\">\nRead the full report on our silver medal ride <a href=\"http:\/\/greenedgecycling.com\/news\/orica-greenedge-earn-silver-medal-in-team-time-trial-at-road-worlds\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t fault anyone. If we had gone nine-hundredths of a second faster, we would be world champions today.\u201d Image credit: ORICA-GreenEDGE ORICA-GreenEDGE narrowly missed the top step of the podium and a world title in Florence, Italy in the team time trial at the Road World Championships. The Australian outfit settled for the silver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21550"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}