{"id":160896,"date":"2025-06-05T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160896\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:28:10","slug":"tour-of-britain-mauritian-kim-le-court-wins-stage-one-in-redcar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/160896\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain: Mauritian Kim Le Court wins stage one in Redcar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The four-day Tour of Britain Women began with an 81.5km stage in North Yorkshire between Dalby Forest and Redcar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The riders faced two classified climbs, at Blakey Ridge and Langburn&#8217;s Bank, with Le Court starting her attack at the bottom of the latter, with Faulkner in pursuit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Behind the lead pair the peloton split, with FDJ-Suez and Movistar leading the chase from a reduced group which was 34 seconds behind with 28km to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Faulkner almost crashed out of the race with 15km to go, misjudging a corner and narrowly avoiding a traffic island. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Le Court waited for her to regain momentum and the two continued with their break until the finish, before winning the sprint to take the leader&#8217;s jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Friday&#8217;s second stage is over a 114.3km route between Hartlepool and Saltburn-by-the-sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four-day Tour of Britain Women began with an 81.5km stage in North Yorkshire between Dalby Forest and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160896","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896","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=160896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}