{"id":6093,"date":"2021-07-05T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/verhoeven-and-smeenge-winners-of-stage-two-in-the-transalp\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T14:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:47:36","slug":"verhoeven-and-smeenge-winners-of-stage-two-in-the-transalp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/verhoeven-and-smeenge-winners-of-stage-two-in-the-transalp\/","title":{"rendered":"Verhoeven and Smeenge winners of stage two in the Transalp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the second stage from Livigno to Bormio, Roel Verhoeven and Tim Smeenge made their mark. On the last climb they broke free from their fellow leaders Steffen Thum and Rob van den Haasenvelde and made up for almost four minutes on the general classification leaders Manuel Pliem and David Sch\u00f6ggl who came in third.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5008\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-stage-2-Podium-Transalp-421x300.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn&#8217;t win the stage without a fight. In the penultimate climb we lost contact but managed to come back and gave everything for the stage victory in the last climb. With this move we even gained thirty seconds and great to win here in Bormio. Today we rode in a special outfit in honor of the 75th anniversary of our bicycle sponsor Lapierre, with this victory we could give them a suitable birthday present.&#8217;, says Smeenge.<a href=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-5010\" src=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Roel-Tim-Lapierre-75-Years-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second stage from Livigno to Bormio, Roel Verhoeven and Tim Smeenge made their mark. On the last climb they broke free from their fellow leaders Steffen Thum and Rob van den Haasenvelde and made up for almost four minutes on the general classification leaders Manuel Pliem and David Sch\u00f6ggl who came in third.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}