{"id":81202,"date":"2025-08-20T22:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81202\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T22:55:06","slug":"watson-takes-second-in-opening-prologue-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/81202\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson takes second in opening prologue in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Renewi Tour<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ben Turner sprinted to sixth place on a flat first stage at the Renewi Tour in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Riders battled the wind throughout the 182.6km stage, with a bunch finish seeing Turner well delivered by the team to fire to sixth place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A group of 14 was established early on, and with 25km remaining, the break started attacking each other in a bid to widen the 30 second advantage to the peloton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The front group was caught with five kilometres remaining, with the Grenadiers straight on the front as Ben Swift pulled the peloton to deliver Turner to the line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Turner was just slightly boxed in in the final 300m, but managed to take sixth place in good company behind winner European champion Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renewi Tour Ben Turner sprinted to sixth place on a flat first stage at the Renewi Tour in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-81202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81202","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=81202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}