{"id":20427,"date":"2013-06-14T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/ciolek-second-on-first-stage-in-luxembourg\/"},"modified":"2013-06-14T22:08:15","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:08:15","slug":"ciolek-second-on-first-stage-in-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/ciolek-second-on-first-stage-in-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciolek second on first stage in Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gerald_Ciolek-IMG_1865.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[5265]\"><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\/e0880_300px-Gerald_Ciolek-IMG_18659.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerald Ciolek (Photo credit: Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<p>Team <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"MTN Qhubeka\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MTN_Qhubeka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">MTN-Qhubeka<\/a> made its mark on the first stage of the five-day Skoda Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday, with <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Gerald Ciolek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gerald_Ciolek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Gerald Ciolek<\/a> finishing second after team-mate Jay Thomson spent most of the stage in a breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>Ciolek challenged in the mass sprint in bad weather conditions in Hautcharge, and was beaten only by <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Alexander Porsev\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Porsev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Alexander Porsev<\/a> (Katusha).<\/p>\n<p>Thomson showed the colors of the African Professional Continental team in a long escape, finishing off with a solo effort that saw him caught with only 33km to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw a great race from our guys today. Our plan worked out,\u201d said sports director Jens Zemke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe absolutely wanted to be in the day\u2019s break group. Jay put in a fantastic performance and impressively represented our team, despite the horrible weather conditions, with rain and cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd with Gerald\u2019s second place we can also be satisfied. Our chances are good and in the next few days we will continue to try to shape the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jimmy Engoulvent\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jimmy_Engoulvent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jimmy Engoulvent<\/a> (Sojasun) retained his overall lead, after his performance in Wednesday\u2019s prologue ahead of Danny Van Poppel (Vacansoleil-DCM) and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jonathan Hivert\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jonathan_Hivert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jonathan Hivert<\/a> (Sojasun).<\/p>\n<p>Jaco Venter is still the best MTN-Qhubeka rider, in 30th place, with Gerald Ciolek 39th overall.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s second stage again features six climbs on the 173.1km stetch between Schifflange and Walferdange, but a mass sprint is again expected. 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Ciolek challenged in the mass sprint in bad weather conditions in Hautcharge, and was beaten [&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-20427","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\/20427","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=20427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}