{"id":636858,"date":"2026-04-29T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:30:12","slug":"i-had-a-good-clean-run-pickrell-snags-second-at-tour-of-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/636858\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I had a good clean run&#8217; \u2014 Pickrell snags second at Tour of Turkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanis\u0142aw Anio\u0142kowski got it right at the line, winning Stage 4 of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye after a messy, stretched-out run into Fethiye, with Victoria\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/feature\/riley-pickrell-so-close-to-a-win-at-tour-of-turkey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Pickrell<\/a> right there but a wheel short.<\/p>\n<p>The day began with a six-man break getting clear. That forced the big teams to work, and the rolling run toward the coast kept things tense even after it was brought back. By the final kilometres, the peloton was strung out and uneasy. Then things got a bit hairy.<\/p>\n<p>The sprint didn\u2019t settle much. Fernando Gaviria went early, the timing off, and the road opened in pieces rather than one clean line. Anio\u0142kowski found a gap and committed.<\/p>\n<p>Pickrell, who rides for George Hincapie\u2019s new team, Modern Adventure Cycling, ame through behind him. And just missed out on the win. But he was happy with the way things worked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a good clean run,\u201d Pickrell said. \u201cComing into the finale we had the whole team lined out, holding me in great position and just letting me relax before such a chaotic finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was close, close enough to see it, not quite enough to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy teammate Mark Stewart and I wanted to leave it late because of the cross-headwind from the right, and when the road opened up I had a good clean run,\u201d he said. \u201cI can\u2019t thank the team enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Noah Ramsay, back racing after his crash at \u00c9toile de Bess\u00e8ges, finished 21st for Alpecin-Premier Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 3 is probably not going to be the day for another result for Pickrell, however. That being said, it\u2019s clear he will get that big dub one of these days. But Thursday is a very lumpy 180.7-km day from Patara to Kemer.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Iv\u00e1n Ramiro Sosa (Equipo Kern Pharma) leads the overall. With the win, however, Pickrell moves up to 7th in the points. Ramsay sits a respectable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.procyclingstats.com\/race\/tour-of-turkey\/2026\/stage-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">19th overall in the GC.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stanis\u0142aw Anio\u0142kowski got it right at the line, winning Stage 4 of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkiye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,238046,128738,82,238047],"class_list":["post-636858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-noah-ramsay","tag-riley-pickrell","tag-sports","tag-tour-of-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636858","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=636858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}