{"id":451587,"date":"2026-03-01T07:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451587\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T07:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T07:19:11","slug":"bernal-takes-top-10-in-ardeche-while-classics-get-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451587\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernal takes top 10 in Ardeche while Classics get underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Egan Bernal finished seventh at the Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic, while Ben Turner led home the Grenadiers at Omloop Nieuwsblad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Facing 11 climbs along the 187.6km race in France, an eight man break escaped within the first 20km, which reduced over time and was eventually caught with 45km remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On the Mur de Royes, a 6.8km climb averaging 7.3%, eventual winner Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) accelerated, bringing others with him, but were ultimately unable to hold his wheel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Matteo Jorgenson (Visma &#8211; Lease A Bike), Jan Christen (UAE Team Emirates &#8211; XRG) and Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) kept on the chase, with Bernal pulling just behind in a group with Roman Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ), and Louis Barre (Visma-Lease a Bike).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bernal continued to fight all the way to the end, finishing solo in seventh place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tomorrow, the team will ride the Faun-Dr\u00f4me Classic, with Dorian Godon swapping out for Lucas Hamilton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal finished seventh at the Faun-Ard\u00e8che Classic, while Ben Turner led home the Grenadiers at Omloop Nieuwsblad.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451587","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\/451587","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=451587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}