Strong teamwork help Jasper take a podium place<\/p>\n
Jasper Stuyven came a whisker away from victory at Paris-Tours, taking second place after an attacking performance from Soudal Quick-Step over the demanding vineyard tracks and climbs.<\/p>\n
Yves Lampaert put the team on the front foot early, joining the day\u2019s twelve-man breakaway. As the gravel sectors began to whittle down the leading group, the Belgian remained among its strongest riders, surviving at the head of the race until the last escapees were caught with just over 20 kilometres remaining.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t quite get the cherry on top of our cake, but we rode a nice race<\/p>\n
Iljo Keisse<\/p>\n
The Wolfpack continued to play a key role in the finale, with Pepijn Reinderink working alongside Stuyven to help bring back another dangerous move before the final ten kilometres. Jasper then made the decisive selection and remained alert as repeated attacks kept the outcome uncertain all the way into Tours.<\/p>\n
When Per Strand Hagenes accelerated shortly before the final kilometre, Stuyven launched his pursuit. Closing on the Norwegian down the finishing straight, Jasper narrowly ran out of road, crossing the line ahead of Christophe Laporte to secure second place and reward a strong collective effort.
The team\u2019s happiness in a good day\u2019s work was reflected to by Sports Director Iljo Keisse who said, \u2018I think as a team we rode the perfect race, mainly thanks to Yves who put everybody in the box seat by jumping in the early attack. The rest of the team stayed in position all race and went in front in the finale of the 10 final gravel sections, taking control of the race.<\/p>\n
Jasper rode a nice race and, he deserved a win after an amazing season.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t quite get the cherry on top of our cake, but that was not anybody\u2019s fault; We rode a nice race.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strong teamwork help Jasper take a podium place Jasper Stuyven came a whisker away from victory at Paris-Tours,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-929350","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\/929350","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=929350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}