{"id":334398,"date":"2025-08-11T00:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334398\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:07:11","slug":"tour-de-france-legend-jens-voigt-cycles-through-highbridge-on-cross-uk-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334398\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France legend Jens Voigt cycles through Highbridge on cross-UK challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cycling fans in the Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge area were treated to a brief glimpse of former Tour de France star Jens Voigt on Sunday (August 10th) as he cycled through the town during a ride from Land\u2019s End to John O\u2019Groats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old German cyclist, now a Eurosport TV commentator, travelled along the A38 through Highbridge as part of his Day 2 route from Exeter to Bristol, covering 122km.<\/p>\n<p>He was spotted here at 1.20pm travelling through Highbridge with more than 20 fellow cyclists on his way to East Brent, Rooksbridge and then finishing in Bristol.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Voigt, who famously wore the yellow jersey twice and claimed two stage victories during his Tour de France career, began his \u2018LeJog Ride With Jens\u2019 adventure on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He waved to spectators as he cycled through the area, pictured here.<\/p>\n<p>His challenge spans nine stages and has already attracted attention from cycling enthusiasts across the country. Voigt has invited fellow cyclists to join him on the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cycling fans in the Burnham-On-Sea and Highbridge area were treated to a brief glimpse of former Tour de&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-334398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007222058414020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334398","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=334398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}