{"id":21279,"date":"2013-07-21T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T22:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T00:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T22:02:51","slug":"froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Froome effectively wins Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-tour-de-france-cycling-scandal-that-caps-them-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Froome<\/a>\u00a0kept his big race lead today to all but ensure he will become Britain\u2019s second consecutive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-few-unforgettable-tour-de-france-moments\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a>\u00a0champion after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/final-rest-day-for-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Wiggins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9879\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9879\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9879  \" alt=\"Chris Froome of Great Britain and SKY Procycling is poised to win the 100th edition of the Tour de France. Photo: Doug Pensinger \/ Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f4088_1374335778000-GTY-174014758-1307201158_4_3.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Froome of Great Britain and SKY Procycling is poised to win the 100th edition of the Tour de France.<br \/>Photo: Doug Pensinger \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Only an accident or other freak mishap on Sunday\u2019s largely ceremonial <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/riders-feel-nostalgic-before-champs-elysees-final\/\" target=\"_blank\">final ride <\/a>to Paris could stop Froome from winning the 100th Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Froome finished third in a dramatic Stage 20 to the ski station of Annecy-Semnoz in the Alps that decided the other podium placings.<\/p>\n<p>Nairo Quintana from Colombia won the stage and moved up to second overall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/the-riders-to-watch-at-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joaquim Rodriguez<\/a> from Spain rode in 17 seconds behind Quintana. He moved up to third overall.<\/p>\n<p>Froome\u2019s lead is more than 5 minutes over both those two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-contador-crack-as-riblon-wins-on-lalpe-dhuez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Contador<\/a>, who had been second at the start of the day, struggled on the final climb and dropped off the podium. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2013\/jul\/20\/tour-de-france-stage-20-live\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f4088_186770432_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2013\/jul\/20\/tour-de-france-stage-20-live\" target=\"_blank\">Nairo Quintana takes 20th stage of Tour de France; Briton Chris Froome on verge of overall win \u2013 @guardian<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timesleader.com\/news\/apsports\/8366796434786405507437\/Froome-effectively-wins-Tour-de-Francesource=RSS\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f4088_186767670_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/timesleader.com\/news\/apsports\/8366796434786405507437\/Froome-effectively-wins-Tour-de-Francesource=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">Froome effectively wins Tour de France<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/cycling\/23388882a=186763273rid=59fbef92-b066-4994-9854-9335a2dc9460e=5e2de6f236a036f5605e10237a5a0032\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f4088_186763273_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/cycling\/23388882a=186763273rid=59fbef92-b066-4994-9854-9335a2dc9460e=5e2de6f236a036f5605e10237a5a0032\" target=\"_blank\">Froome third but Tour win within sight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\/f4088_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Froome\u00a0kept his big race lead today to all but ensure he will become Britain\u2019s second consecutive\u00a0Tour de France\u00a0champion after\u00a0Bradley Wiggins. Chris Froome of Great Britain and SKY Procycling is poised to win the 100th edition of the Tour de France.Photo: Doug Pensinger \/ Getty Images Only an accident or other freak mishap on Sunday\u2019s [&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-21279","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\/21279","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=21279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}