New Zealander Ben Oliver is being celebrated \u2013 not only for securing a win on stage two of the Tour de Wallonie \u2013 but for his Kiwi pose as he crossed the line which is being shared widely on social media.<\/p>\n
As Oliver finished the race after a day in wind and rain in Belgium\u2019s Libramont-Chevigny, he displayed a p\u016bkana for the cameras, made more dramatic by the wild weather.<\/p>\n
It was also the first European win for his American team, Modern Adventure Pro Cycling. <\/p>\n
The team was founded by former American cyclist George Hincapie and his brother Richard earlier this year.<\/p>\n
After finishing fourth in stage one, Oliver\u2019s victory and time bonuses has propelled him to the race lead heading into the third stage.<\/p>\n
Reacting to his win, the cyclist from Christchurch said: \u201cWe were chasing stage wins this week, and to get that on the second stage after a close day yesterday with fourth with George watching before he heads home tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo get done whilst he was here was an awesome way to finish a wet and windy day on the Tour of Wallonie. The boys had my back all day.”<\/p>\n
\u201cWe got the job done \u2013 a wicked day for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Comments online also praised his win and his Kiwi-as reaction at the finish.<\/p>\n
“He\u2019s a Kiwi. Looks like he\u2019s doing a haka,” one social media follower said.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnreal… Ben doing the mahi,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n
“Sensational! Well done Ben,” read another.<\/p>\n
“Those are definitely not thighs from Temu,” added another observant poster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealander Ben Oliver is being celebrated \u2013 not only for securing a win on stage two of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8809,111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-460486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cycling","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}