{"id":18550,"date":"2013-03-04T02:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/thomson-models-national-colours-at-tirreno-adriatico\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T02:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T00:30:51","slug":"thomson-models-national-colours-at-tirreno-adriatico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/thomson-models-national-colours-at-tirreno-adriatico\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomson models national colours at Tirreno-Adriatico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/thomson-models-national-colours-at-tirreno-adriatico\/jay-thomson-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2321\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2321\" alt=\"MTN-Qhubeka's Jay Thomson (centre) after winning the elite South African road cycling title ahead of Tasol-GT's Johann Rabie (right) and Craft's Ian McLeod.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8c283_Jay-Thomson-LR-437x600.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTN-Qhubeka\u2019s Jay Thomson (centre) after winning the elite South African road cycling title ahead of Tasol-GT\u2019s Johann Rabie (right) and Craft\u2019s Ian McLeod.<\/p>\n<p>MTN-Qhubeka\u2019s Jay Thomson won the elite South African road cycling title in Nelspruit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Meintjes completed a perfect championships for the team as he won the U23 title after the two team-mates attacked what was left of the main field with 35 kilometres to go.<\/p>\n<p>A big group formed behind to bring the dangerous move back but the chase was in vain as Thomson and Meintjes crossed the finish line together to win the championships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are no words that can describe what it means,\u201d Thomson said afterwards. \u201cIt feels like a weight has been taken off my shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really excited about it and can\u2019t be happier. I can\u2019t wait to have the jersey on my back on Wednesday in Tirreno-Adriatico.<\/p>\n<p>Thomson\u2019s gold follows his silver in the individual time trial on Thursday and the resuls means double gold for Meintjes after he won the U23 time-trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN-Qhubeka\u2019s Jay Thomson (centre) after winning the elite South African road cycling title ahead of Tasol-GT\u2019s Johann Rabie (right) and Craft\u2019s Ian McLeod. MTN-Qhubeka\u2019s Jay Thomson won the elite South African road cycling title in Nelspruit on Sunday. Louis Meintjes completed a perfect championships for the team as he won the U23 title after the [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/18550","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=18550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}