{"id":13435,"date":"2012-08-13T02:29:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-2-olympics-cycling-kulhavy-sprints-to-mountain-bike-gold\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T02:29:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:50","slug":"update-2-olympics-cycling-kulhavy-sprints-to-mountain-bike-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-olympics-cycling-kulhavy-sprints-to-mountain-bike-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Olympics-Cycling-Kulhavy sprints to mountain bike gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds quotes)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Julien Pretot<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HADLEIGH, England<\/span> Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy<br \/>\nmade a decisive move in the closing stages to claim the Olympic<br \/>\nmen&#8217;s mountain bike title on Sunday after defending champion<br \/>\nJulien Absalon of France suffered a game-changing early<br \/>\npuncture.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>World champion Kulhavy produced an impressive ride on the<br \/>\nseven 4.7-kilometre laps on a course overlooking the Thames<br \/>\nestuary in Hadleigh Farm, east of London.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kulhavy overtook Swiss world number one Nino Schurter, who<br \/>\ntook silver one second behind, at the top of the final uphill<br \/>\ndrag and kept his advantage in the descent before sprinting to<br \/>\nthe line.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Italian Marco Aurelio Fontana took bronze, 25 seconds off<br \/>\nthe pace.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really hard. We went full gas all day,&#8221; Kulhavy told<br \/>\nthe BBC.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I gave everything, all my energy. This was so important for<br \/>\nme this year. I&#8217;ve now won everything, the World Cup, the world<br \/>\nchampionship and now the Olympic title.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most special day in the sport for me. It was<br \/>\neasy for the first half of the race but the finish was pretty<br \/>\nhard and Nino was very strong so it was a big fight,&#8221; Kulhavy<br \/>\nthen told reporters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Adds quotes) By Julien Pretot HADLEIGH, England Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy made a decisive move in the closing stages to claim the Olympic men&#8217;s mountain bike title on Sunday after defending champion Julien Absalon of France suffered a game-changing early puncture. World champion Kulhavy produced an impressive ride on the seven 4.7-kilometre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}