{"id":112286,"date":"2025-09-03T19:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112286\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:56:07","slug":"tour-of-britain-olva-kooij-wins-sprint-to-claim-victory-on-stage-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112286\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain: Olva Kooij wins sprint to claim victory on stage two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dutch rider Olav Kooij sealed back-to-back victories at the Tour of Britain by winning a sprint finish on stage two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Team Visma-Lease a Bike rider went round the outside of Great Britain&#8217;s Sam Watson on the final corner on the way to winning the 174.06km stage in wet weather around Stowmarket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watson finished third as Tom Crabbe, of Belgium, beat him to second spot. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kooij retained the leader&#8217;s green jersey and extended his general classification lead to 14 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Crabbe, of Team Flanders-Baloise, moved into second place, while Ineos Grenadiers&#8217; Watson is 16 seconds behind the leader in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a bit harder than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cn020810n1zo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a> &#8211; we had to use a lot of power to make the sprint in the first place,&#8221; said Kooij.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t look back but it felt like it wasn&#8217;t as close as yesterday so I&#8217;m happy with that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The race suits me quite well. Another stage win after some hard work from the team so I&#8217;m really happy with that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stage three takes place over 133.03km on Thursday between Milton Keynes and the Bedfordshire town of Ampthill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch rider Olav Kooij sealed back-to-back victories at the Tour of Britain by winning a sprint finish on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}