{"id":762840,"date":"2026-09-07T12:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762840\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:10:09","slug":"alex-yee-broken-chain-ends-britons-hopes-at-jersey-supertri-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/762840\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Yee: Broken chain ends Briton&#8217;s hopes at Jersey Supertri final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Olympic champion Alex Yee vowed to focus on the World Triathlon Championships after a broken bike chain cost him the chance of victory in the Supertri Pro Series Final in Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yee was up against New Zealand&#8217;s Hayden Wilde for the first time since storming to victory in Paris two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, as the two raced as part of the leading pack, Yee&#8217;s chain snapped on the second bike leg of the race around St Helier&#8217;s Waterfront, costing him the chance to win and meaning he was unable to finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These things happen sometimes,&#8221; said Yee, who will race in Spain for the world title later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some things are out of your control &#8211; you can decide to get upset about things you can&#8217;t control or you can move forward and do what you can control,&#8221; he added to BBC Radio Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got another opportunity to be on the line with these guys and I&#8217;ll do my best to be competitive again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic champion Alex Yee vowed to focus on the World Triathlon Championships after a broken bike chain cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-762840","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\/762840","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=762840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}