{"id":154893,"date":"2025-06-03T13:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154893\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T13:30:10","slug":"ill-never-forget-these-victories-for-the-rest-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/154893\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll never forget these victories for the rest of my life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bit in the shadow of the third week of Giro d&#8217;Italia, the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-of-norway\" title=\"Tour of Norway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour of Norway<\/a> took place last week. Those followed closely witnessed an absolute dominance of one man &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/matthew-brennan\" title=\"Matthew Brennan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Brennan<\/a>. The sprinter gem of Visma | Lease a Bike was never worse than second over the four stages and comfortably secure a GC victory after a sprint win in last stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is beautiful,&#8221; Brennan shared his impressions in a press release on a team website. The technical circuit on Sunday required more than just fast legs. &#8220;It was treacherous and super hectic in the final.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t automatically that the sprinters got to fight it out for a victory in Stavanger. A strong breakaway formed up ahead and it was only with 2 kilometers to go that their resist was broken. &#8220;Thanks to the good work of the team, we were able to sprint again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the finale, the Uno-X Mobility sprint train took over the front and Alexander Kristoff seemed on his way to go back-to-back in Stavanger. Until Brennan peeked from his wheel and won with a well-timed bike throw. &#8220;It was very close, but I had the feeling that I caught Kristoff at the finish. Fortunately, that turned out to be true. It was still exciting for a while, but I am happy and relieved that I was able to win today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Next to two stage wins, Brennan also brings home the overall triumph. The 19-year-old is very grateful to his team for the support over past week. &#8220;Without them, this really wouldn\u2019t have been possible. We rode as a close-knit team in the past few days. I think we showed some really great things. It\u2019s my first win in a general classification as a professional rider. I\u2019ll never forget these victories for the rest of my life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bit in the shadow of the third week of Giro d&#8217;Italia, the Tour of Norway took place&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-154893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114619680274498463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}