{"id":21298,"date":"2013-07-22T00:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T22:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/froomes-tour-de-france-victory-within-sight\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T00:06:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T22:06:05","slug":"froomes-tour-de-france-victory-within-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/froomes-tour-de-france-victory-within-sight\/","title":{"rendered":"Froome\u2019s Tour de France victory within sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=9921\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9921\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-9921  \" alt=\"Tour de France: Chris Froome third but victory within sight. Photo: BBC Sport\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a3acd_68862614_mmcycfroomepresser20-7-600x337.jpg\" width=\"324\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tour de France: Chris Froome third but victory within sight. Photo: BBC Sport<\/p>\n<p>Briton <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Froome<\/a> is set to win the 100th <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/the-riders-to-watch-at-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France<\/a> after finishing third on the penultimate stage.<\/p>\n<p>Froome, 28, leads by over five minutes and will not be challenged on Sunday\u2019s traditional procession into Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t quite believe I\u2019m sitting here in this position,\u201d said Froome. \u201cIt really is amazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a bit lost for words. I\u2019ve still got to roll into Paris but this is the GC [general classification] sorted out. To finish it off like this is special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kenya\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-1.26666666667,36.8spn=10.0,10.0q=-1.26666666667,36.8 (Kenya)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Kenya<\/a>-born rider added: \u201cIt was quite hard to stay on top once I got to three kilometres to go because I knew I had accomplished what I wanted to do. I was overwhelmed.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Sport<\/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:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a3acd_186778219_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/froome-effectively-wins-tour-de-france\/\" 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=5a9d0145-dfa8-4026-803b-c3f85d4411fce=f9f2631ad35103c38ee2d8074b8cd684\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/a3acd_186763273_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/cycling\/23388882a=186763273rid=5a9d0145-dfa8-4026-803b-c3f85d4411fce=f9f2631ad35103c38ee2d8074b8cd684\" target=\"_blank\">Froome third but Tour win within sight<\/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\/a3acd_186767670_80_801.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<\/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\/7e035_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de France: Chris Froome third but victory within sight. Photo: BBC Sport Briton Chris Froome is set to win the 100th Tour de France after finishing third on the penultimate stage. Froome, 28, leads by over five minutes and will not be challenged on Sunday\u2019s traditional procession into Paris. \u201cI can\u2019t quite believe I\u2019m [&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-21298","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\/21298","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=21298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}