{"id":22780,"date":"2013-09-23T03:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sir-wiggins-wins-tour-of-britain\/"},"modified":"2013-09-23T03:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T01:03:28","slug":"sir-wiggins-wins-tour-of-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sir-wiggins-wins-tour-of-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Wiggins wins Tour of Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=17590\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17590\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17590 \" alt=\"Champagne moment: Sir Bradley Wiggins celebrates his Tour of Britain win. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ad096_article-0-182C3C4000000578-787_306x423.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Champagne moment: Sir Bradley Wiggins celebrates his Tour of Britain win. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Sir Bradley Wiggins completed victory in the Tour of Britain on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the 88-kilometre eighth and final stage in central London.<\/p>\n<p>Cavendish triumphed in a sprint finish at the end of 10 8.8km laps on Whitehall after a near-perfect leadout from Omega Pharma-QuickStep team-mate Alessandro Petacchi.<\/p>\n<p>Team Sky\u2019s Wiggins, wearing the leader\u2019s gold jersey, rolled in safely in the bunch to claim overall victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/wiggins-climbs-to-brink-of-the-tour-of-britain-title\/\" target=\"_blank\">In claiming his first stage race triumph since the 2012 Tour de France, Wiggins became the second British winner in the 10th edition of the race<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Tiernan-Locke won the Tour of Britain in 2012, earning a move to Team Sky, which has now won its home race at the fourth attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Wiggins rode last year\u2019s event, abandoning with a chest infection and after making a U-turn at one point to go back to support Cavendish, then his team-mate. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mail Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Bradley Wiggins news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/bradley-wiggins\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/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\/cavendish-wins-fourth-tour-of-britain-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/ad096_203473103_80_803.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/cavendish-wins-fourth-tour-of-britain-stage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cavendish wins fourth Tour of Britain stage<\/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\/ad096_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champagne moment: Sir Bradley Wiggins celebrates his Tour of Britain win. Photo: Getty Images Sir Bradley Wiggins completed victory in the Tour of Britain on Sunday as Mark Cavendish won the 88-kilometre eighth and final stage in central London. Cavendish triumphed in a sprint finish at the end of 10 8.8km laps on Whitehall after [&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-22780","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\/22780","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=22780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}