{"id":53724,"date":"2025-08-08T23:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53724\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:02:08","slug":"turner-secures-another-second-place-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/53724\/","title":{"rendered":"Turner secures another second place sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">Ben Turner made it three top-two finishes in a row at the Tour de Pologne with a closely fought second place on stage five.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">Once again the Brit latched on to a strong leadout from Michal Kwiatkowski in the final metres, and despite coming back at stage winner Matthew Brennan (Visma | Lease a Bike), he was just unable to overhaul his compatriot at the line.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">The runner-up finish continued Turner\u2019s momentum and extended his grip on the white points jersey heading into the final weekend. The bunch sprint, despite some tough climbs on the day, was also a benefit to Victor Langellotti, who finished 11th to remain well placed in second overall. The Grenadier is just eight seconds off the overall lead with two days to go.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"selectable-text copyable-text x15bjb6t x1n2onr6\">The team committed early on to help control the stage and ensure the day\u2019s break were held in check. Michael Leonard got through a lot of kilometres on the front throughout the 206.1km test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Turner made it three top-two finishes in a row at the Tour de Pologne with a closely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-53724","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\/53724","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=53724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}