A Worcestershire-born cyclist has claimed the combativity award on the fifth and final stage of the Lloyds Tour of Britain Women.<\/p>\n
Worcester’s Alice Towers was given the title after organisers acknowledged her as the most aggressive and attacking rider on the day. <\/p>\n
The thousands of spectators in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, watched on as she joined an early breakaway group alongside two other riders, building a gap of more than two minutes. <\/p>\n
But the Great Britain National Team racer was caught within the final kilometre of the race, with Dutch sprinter Lorena Wiebes taking the stage win in Leamington Spa.<\/p>\n
But despite the narrow loss, Towers said: “It was nice to be ahead of the peloton, just to hear all the crowds.<\/p>\n
“I just heard so many shouts for my name so thanks to everyone that came out to watch.<\/p>\n
“I was born in Worcester so I have my grandparents here, my mum, my dad, my dogs.<\/p>\n
“It’s really nice to feel the home support.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Worcestershire-born cyclist has claimed the combativity award on the fifth and final stage of the Lloyds Tour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747562","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\/747562","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=747562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}