{"id":428607,"date":"2026-01-21T22:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:15:09","slug":"2026-mens-tour-down-under-stage-2-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428607\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Men&#8217;s Tour Down Under Stage 2 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/category\/previews\/\" class=\"cmsmasters_cat_color cmsmasters_cat_332419540\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Previews<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22.25.04.png\" title=\"2026 Men\u2019s Tour Down Under Stage 2 Preview\" rel=\"ilightbox[cmsmasters_open_post_img_69714fecade50] nofollow noopener\" class=\"cmsmasters_img_link\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"860\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22.25.04-860x394.png\" class=\" wp-post-image\" alt=\"2026 Men\u2019s Tour Down Under Stage 2 Preview\" title=\"Screenshot 2026-01-12 at 22.25.04\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   data-attachment-id=\"49145\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/2026\/01\/18\/2026-mens-tour-down-under-overall-preview\/screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22-25-04\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22.25.04.png\" data-orig-size=\"1718,788\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot 2026-01-12 at 22.25.04\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22.25.04-300x138.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyclingmole.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-12-at-22.25.04-1024x470.png\"\/>cyclingmole<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Norwood &gt; Uraidla 148km<\/p>\n<p>Not just the hardest stage of the race, but the hardest stage I\u2019ve ever seen in the Tour Down Under. It\u2019s not the amount of elevation gain, although, 3221m is significant, it\u2019s the new ascent of Corkscrew Road, which is done on two occasions. I can see the winner of this stage winning the ochre jersey on Sunday, it\u2019s that important.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to get access<\/p>\n<p>Read more of this content when you subscribe today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Previewscyclingmole Norwood &gt; Uraidla 148km Not just the hardest stage of the race, but the hardest stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-428607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}