{"id":56615,"date":"2025-08-09T09:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56615\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:41:07","slug":"we-are-still-hungry-for-more-brilliant-brennan-helps-visma-double-up-at-the-2025-tour-de-pologne-with-stage-5-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/56615\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are still hungry for more&#8221; \u2013 Brilliant Brennan helps Visma double up at the 2025 Tour de Pologne with stage 5 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 20-year-old Brit timed his uphill sprint to perfection, pouncing late in Bielsko-Bia\u0142a after a chaotic final 10 kilometres saw multiple GC hopefuls test their legs and teams jostle for control on a punchy finishing circuit. \u201cI came here hoping to win a stage. As a team, we were very motivated to achieve that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tourdepologne.pl\/en\/2025\/08\/matthew-brennan-wins-in-zakopane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brennan said post-stage<\/a>. \u201cOlav [Kooij] is also with us \u2013 he was the best on the first stage \u2013 but we are still hungry for more wins, so I\u2019m happy I could finish off the team\u2019s hard work. I\u2019m very happy.\u201dThe final climb, short but stinging, invited attacks from the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/marco-frigo\" title=\"Marco Frigo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Frigo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/jan-christen\" title=\"Jan Christen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Christen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/alberto-bettiol\" title=\"Alberto Bettiol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Bettiol<\/a>, but none could make it stick. Once the regrouping happened inside the final kilometre, the stage was set for the fastest finishers with climbing legs \u2014 and Brennan didn\u2019t waste his shot.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Brennan\u2019s sharp sprint capped off a tactically tight performance from Visma, who kept cool heads amid the flurry of late attacks and committed to the Brit when it mattered. With Kooij\u2019s earlier win and Brennan now on the board, the Dutch squad continues to show its depth across terrain \u2014 and generations.<\/p>\n<p>Lapeira keeps the race lead<\/p>\n<p>The stage also saw Paul Lapeira retain his grip on the yellow jersey, despite another demanding day in the saddle for the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a long and tough day,\u201d Lapeira admitted. \u201cWe rode at the front of the peloton for a long time, then other teams helped too. On the final climb, the pace was very high, all the way to the finish. I feel good \u2013 of course, I\u2019m a bit tired, but everything\u2019s fine on the bike. Tomorrow will be a very hard stage. We\u2019ll see how it goes, but I want to defend the yellow jersey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Brennan, though, the job was already done \u2014 the promise he showed in the junior ranks now translating to the World Tour, and Visma reaping the rewards of their investment in youth. \u201cWe\u2019re still hungry,\u201d Brennan said in conclusion. Judging by stage 5, Visma\u2019s appetite isn\u2019t going away any time soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 20-year-old Brit timed his uphill sprint to perfection, pouncing late in Bielsko-Bia\u0142a after a chaotic final 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-56615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}