{"id":45572,"date":"2025-08-05T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45572\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T12:47:07","slug":"i-am-happy-i-could-do-that-and-show-my-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/45572\/","title":{"rendered":"I am happy I could do that and show my speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first stage of 82nd <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-pologne\" title=\"Tour de Pologne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de Pologne<\/a> was first and maybe last day dedicated to the fast men on this year&#8217;s course. In the streets of Legnica, Olav Kooij (Visma | Lease a Bike) was fastest, but <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/paul-magnier\" title=\"Paul Magnier\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Magnier<\/a> came very close to upsetting the big favourite. The <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/soudal-quick-step\" title=\"Soudal - Quick-Step\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soudal &#8211; Quick-Step<\/a> ultimately crossed the line in a second place which secured him a start in points classification jersey in stage 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am pretty content with my result. It was a very hectic finale and I had to find the space to sprint. I am happy I could do that and show my speed, as it gives me confidence for the next sprinters\u2019 stages here in Poland,&#8221; Magnier said at the finish. Stage 3 seems to hard for a pure sprinter like the Frenchman, thus his focus will be likely on Thursday&#8217;s stage 4 with a short uphill finish in Cieszyn.<\/p>\n<p>The second stage to Karpacz is expected to shake up general classifcation and we should see favourites for overall victory at the thick of action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first stage of 82nd Tour de Pologne was first and maybe last day dedicated to the fast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-45572","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\/45572","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=45572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}