{"id":602286,"date":"2026-04-12T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602286\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T15:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T15:25:12","slug":"ben-tulett-hoping-for-ardennes-bounce-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/602286\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Tulett hoping for Ardennes bounce back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final stage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/the-tour-of-the-basque-country\" title=\"The Tour of the Basque Country\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Tour of the Basque Country<\/a> was one of two halves for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/visma-lease-a-bike\" title=\"Visma | Lease a Bike\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Visma | Lease a Bike<\/a> on Saturday. The Dutch team started the stage without leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/ben-tulett\" title=\"Ben Tulett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Tulett<\/a>, after he was still suffering too much from a crash earlier in the race. His teammates showed resilience, however, which resulted in a fine top finish.<\/p>\n<p>With Bruno Armirail, Tim Rex, Menno Huising and Filippo Fiorelli, Visma | Lease a Bike had four riders in the breakaway. Fiorelli eventually finished fifth. &#8220;We rode a good race,&#8221; a satisfied Maassen said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We wanted to compete for the win and had a number of riders in the break. Filippo showed his strength and was in contention for the victory for a long time. We&#8217;re very happy about that,&#8221; the team director said after the final stage, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlprocycling.com\/cycling\/aj-august-announces-himself-as-next-young-star-with-stage-win-seixas-claims-overall-in-basque-country\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won by AJ August<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The final stage of the Tour of the Basque Country was one of two halves for Visma |&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,219213,784,85,282471,23372],"class_list":{"0":"post-602286","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-ben-tulett","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-the-tour-of-the-basque-country","14":"tag-visma-lease-a-bike"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602286","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=602286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}