{"id":29511,"date":"2025-07-28T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29511\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:51:08","slug":"coventry-cyclist-jake-stewart-finishes-tour-de-france-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/29511\/","title":{"rendered":"Coventry cyclist Jake Stewart finishes Tour de France for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A professional cyclist has completed this year&#8217;s Tour de France for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jake Stewart, 25, from Coventry, took on the three-week and 3,500km (2,175 miles) race with the Israel-Premier Tech team.  He crossed the finish line on the Champs Elysee in Paris on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He made his debut at cycling&#8217;s showpiece stage race a year ago but did not complete it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Known as The Coventry Comet, he has now set his sights on September&#8217;s Tour of Britain. Stage five starts in Atherstone and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishcycling.org.uk\/tourofbritain\/article\/20250717-tour-of-britain-Warwickshire--Milton-Keynes--and-Ampthill-join-Lloyds-Tour-of-Britain-Men-route-0\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finishes at Burton Dassett Hills Country Park., external<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A professional cyclist has completed this year&#8217;s Tour de France for the first time. Jake Stewart, 25, from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-29511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511","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=29511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}