{"id":9433,"date":"2026-05-03T06:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/teus-ruijter-back-in-race-modus-with-a-second-place-at-the-roc-dardenne\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T06:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T06:36:43","slug":"teus-ruijter-back-in-race-modus-with-a-second-place-at-the-roc-dardenne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/teus-ruijter-back-in-race-modus-with-a-second-place-at-the-roc-dardenne\/","title":{"rendered":"Teus Ruijter back in race modus with a second place at the Roc d\u2019Ardenne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recovery from the Cape Epic, which was successful for him, took longer than expected, but previous experiences had taught him to take his time. Unfortunately, Ruijter faced a setback early in the race in Houffalize on Saturday after a sharp stone cut into the side of his tire. He repaired the hole with three plugs and reached the technical zone where he was able to install a new rear wheel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that, I was far behind, but I felt my shape was good and I gave everything to get back on the podium. Unfortunately, I fell half a minute short of still being able to fight for the win with Simon Gregoire after 91 kilometers. I did manage to leave Frans Cleas behind me in the final, so I could still return home with a second place. I am therefore traveling to the World Cup race on Elba this coming weekend with a lot of confidence,\u201d said Ruijter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recovery from the Cape Epic, which was successful for him, took longer than expected, but previous experiences had taught him to take his time. Unfortunately, Ruijter faced a setback early in the race in Houffalize on Saturday after a sharp stone cut into the side of his tire. He repaired the hole with three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[132,154,74,68,90,91,127],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geen-categorie","tag-ardenne-en","tag-houffalize","tag-marathon-en","tag-mountainbike-en","tag-offroad-en","tag-outdoor-en","tag-outside-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","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=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainbiketeam.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}