{"id":21282,"date":"2013-07-21T12:03:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/the-crowning-of-the-100th-tour-de-france-champion\/"},"modified":"2013-07-21T12:03:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T10:03:26","slug":"the-crowning-of-the-100th-tour-de-france-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-crowning-of-the-100th-tour-de-france-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"The crowning of the 100th Tour de France champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s 100th edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/a-tour-de-france-cycling-scandal-that-caps-them-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> was a phenomenal battle between <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-contador-crack-as-riblon-wins-on-lalpe-dhuez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Froome<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-beats-contador-in-time-trial-before-lalpe-dhuez\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Contador<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today the 2013 Tour de France champion will be crowned, and as we await the crowning, we honour the man who won the first ever Tour de France race \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/the-beginnings-of-the-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maurice Garin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Garin nicknamed \u2018the chimney sweep\u2019 after his former profession, won the first Tour de France on this day in 1903. He won with a margin of 2 hours and 49 minutes, which remains the largest in the history of the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9846\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9846\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9846 \" alt=\"Maurice Garin, 1890. Photo: Roger Viollet \/ Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/0c21a_Maurice-Garin-1890-002.jpg\" width=\"390\" height=\"497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maurice Garin, 1890.<br \/>Photo: Roger Viollet \/ Getty Images<\/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\/0c21a_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s 100th edition of the Tour de France was a phenomenal battle between Chris Froome and Alberto Contador. Today the 2013 Tour de France champion will be crowned, and as we await the crowning, we honour the man who won the first ever Tour de France race \u2013 Maurice Garin. Maurice Garin nicknamed \u2018the [&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-21282","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\/21282","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=21282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}