{"id":43864,"date":"2025-08-04T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43864\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T22:36:17","slug":"that-was-actually-meant-as-a-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43864\/","title":{"rendered":"That was actually meant as a joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/maeva-squiban\" title=\"Maeva Squiban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maeva Squiban<\/a> has announced herself to the cycling world in style over the last couple of days at the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france-femmes\" title=\"Tour de France Femmes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a>. Relatively unknown just a few stages ago, back to back solo victories mean the 23-year-old Frenchwoman is suddenly a name on everyone&#8217;s lips.After soloing to the stage 6 success from the breakaway on Thursday afternoon, becoming just the second Frenchwoman to win a Tour de France Femmes stage and the first <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/uae-team-adq\" title=\"UAE Team ADQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UAE Team ADQ<\/a> rider, Squiban attacked from the flag drop on stage 7, although she admits it&#8217;s nothing something she ever really took seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honestly lost for words \u2014 it all started as a joke. I attacked from kilometre zero, but that was actually meant as a joke,\u201d Squiban explained with a smile in her post-stage interview afterwards.\u00a0\u201cAfter my win yesterday, I joked that I\u2019d go on the attack right from the start. But sometimes jokes turn into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maeva Squiban has announced herself to the cycling world in style over the last couple of days at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-43864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864","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=43864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}