{"id":18978,"date":"2013-03-29T03:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/boonen-may-share-leadership-in-flanders\/"},"modified":"2013-03-29T03:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T01:59:25","slug":"boonen-may-share-leadership-in-flanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/boonen-may-share-leadership-in-flanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Boonen may share leadership in Flanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Levefere hinted that Omega Pharma-QuickStep will start the Tour of Flanders with three leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Boonen, the team\u2019s most successful rider with three Ronde titles to his name, has been suffering with injury and illness all year, and crashed out of Gent-Wevelgem last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>He started the Three Days of De Panne on Tuesday in a search for extra racing miles but the 2012 Flanders winner looks short of form compared to his two predicted rivals Peter Sagan and Fabian Cancellara.<\/p>\n<p>Sagan won Gent-Wevelgem while Cancellara romped to the win in E3 Harelbeke two days before.<\/p>\n<p>With Boonen struggling to get on terms and Sagan almost toying with the opposition in De Panne, Lefevere has admitted that his team may change tactics to compensate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSagan is so strong it\u2019s like he\u2019s playing little jokes with the others,\u201d Lefevere told Cyclingnews after stage 1 of De Panne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is using the right tactics and he put the sprinters\u2019 team in a lot of pain.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/boonen-may-share-flanders-leadership?ns_campaign=newsamp;ns_mchannel=rssamp;ns_source=cyclingnewsamp;ns_linkname=0amp;ns_fee=0\" target=\"_blank\">cyclingnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Levefere hinted that Omega Pharma-QuickStep will start the Tour of Flanders with three leaders. Tom Boonen, the team\u2019s most successful rider with three Ronde titles to his name, has been suffering with injury and illness all year, and crashed out of Gent-Wevelgem last weekend. He started the Three Days of De Panne on Tuesday [&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-18978","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\/18978","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=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}