{"id":681058,"date":"2026-07-08T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681058\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T20:53:11","slug":"godon-competitive-in-first-sprint-stage-of-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/681058\/","title":{"rendered":"Godon competitive in first sprint stage of Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Dorian Godon sprinted to 15th place after a technical, fast finish on stage five of the Tour de France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The flat 158km stage had an early solo break from Baptiste Veistroffer (Lotto Intermarche), who spent much of the stage on his own, before being caught in the final 14km.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Godon was well looked after, with big efforts from Tobias Foss and Filippo Ganna, before a stellar lead out from Michal Kwiatkowski dropped off the Frenchman with 1.6km to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It was a technical finish, with a tight turn into the final kilometre, before a gradual uphill sprint greeted the front of the peloton. Godon sprinted hard, but in tight circumstances, was boxed in for the finish, crossing the line in 15th place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Tomorrow will see the peloton return to the mountains, with five categorised climbs on the cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorian Godon sprinted to 15th place after a technical, fast finish on stage five of the Tour de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-681058","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\/681058","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=681058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}