{"id":608255,"date":"2026-09-22T15:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608255\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:04:15","slug":"kyle-smith-claims-french-riviera-t100-podium-after-crashing-to-avoid-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/608255\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Smith claims French Riviera T100 podium after crashing to avoid bus"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cI woke up yesterday, I was feeling a bit dizzy and a bit out of it, so I thought maybe I\u2019d hit my head and thought I might have been concussed. <\/p>\n
Kyle Smith, pictured at the 2026 Taup\u014d Ironman, finished third at the T100 French Riviera event. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
\u201cI can deal with my body being sore, but if you\u2019ve had a concussion before, it\u2019s not a nice feeling. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo, just honestly relieved that I could put down a performance that I\u2019m proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Smith finished third, 24 seconds behind fellow New Zealander and Olympic silver medallist Hayden Wilde, while Belgian Jelle Geens placed second.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much in these last four months,\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve worked so hard, had some amazing people behind me supporting me and I thought this is for them really as much as it is for me. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been through so much and I literally was kind of laughing on the floor like, \u2018you think a bus is going to stop me now?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The podium finish in France has propelled Smith to eighth in the 2026 T100 standings, putting him in a position to be automatically offered a start in the opening T100 race next season. <\/p>\n
Two events remain on the 2026 men\u2019s T100 calendar, with the next in Saudi Arabia at the end of November. <\/p>\n
The final race of the year is in Qatar, running from December 10 to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI woke up yesterday, I was feeling a bit dizzy and a bit out of it, so I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,17094,30482,2741,2562,20496,5972,18089,18984,43765,5830,11775,299783,194,44012,119536,111,139,1536,69,1523,2850,14717,40440,16189,213,11858,107,210,61,49641],"class_list":["post-608255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-avoid","tag-bus","tag-claim","tag-claims","tag-crashing","tag-day","tag-dramatic","tag-finish","tag-flew","tag-fought","tag-french","tag-handlebars","tag-kiwi","tag-kyle","tag-nearmiss","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-over","tag-pain","tag-podium","tag-riviera","tag-smith","tag-sports","tag-t100","tag-then","tag-through","tag-to","tag-triathlete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608255","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=608255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}