{"id":19871,"date":"2013-05-20T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ciolek-heads-home-for-bayern-rundfahrt\/"},"modified":"2013-05-20T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T18:10:30","slug":"ciolek-heads-home-for-bayern-rundfahrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ciolek-heads-home-for-bayern-rundfahrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciolek heads home for Bayern-Rundfahrt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gerald_Ciolek-IMG_1865.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[3380]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Gerald Ciolek\" alt=\"Gerald Ciolek\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/029bc_300px-Gerald_Ciolek-IMG_1865.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Ciolek (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Milan \u2013 San Remo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/grandeciclismo\/milanosanremo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Milan-San Remo<\/a> winner <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gerald Ciolek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerald_Ciolek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Gerald Ciolek<\/a> will lead <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MTN Qhubeka\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtncycling.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">MTN-Qhubeka<\/a> in the 34th edition of the International Bayern Rundfahrt from May 22 to 26.<\/p>\n<p>The race has attracted some of the world\u2019s best riders and the team has selected an experienced squad to support the German sprinter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBayern Rundfahrt is a very, very important race for us,\u201d said sports director Jens Zemke, who won three stages in the race as a rider.<\/p>\n<p>One of them coming in Sankt Englmar, which this year is the highest point in the race. Ciolek is the most recent stage winner in Sankt Englmar after he won a spectacular sprint in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking good for all the scenarios of the race,\u201d said Zemke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIgnatas Konovalovas is our top man for time trials and with Sergio Pardilla we have a first-class climber on the team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Konovalovas, who has won a Giro d\u2019Italia time trial, and Pardilla, the team will send German\u2019s Martin Reimer and Andreas Stauff.<\/p>\n<p>South African champion Jay Thomson and Meron Russom will also strengthen the team.<\/p>\n<p>Nine WorldTour teams will start the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 34th Bayern Rundfahrt runs over five stages and 755km from the Hallertau over the Bavarian forest to N\u00fcrnberg.<\/p>\n<p>Race information on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayern-rundfahrt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bayern-rundfahrt.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/029bc_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerald Ciolek (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Milan-San Remo winner Gerald Ciolek will lead MTN-Qhubeka in the 34th edition of the International Bayern Rundfahrt from May 22 to 26. The race has attracted some of the world\u2019s best riders and the team has selected an experienced squad to support the German sprinter. \u201cBayern Rundfahrt is a very, [&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-19871","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\/19871","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=19871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}