{"id":694,"date":"2010-09-12T23:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richandvon.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2010-09-12T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T22:45:15","slug":"tour-of-britain-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Britain 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 2 of the 2010 Tour of Britain was in Stoke today. The stage started in Burslem (Queen of the Potteries!), and finished in Hanley (Stokes&#8217; City Centre) after a fast and sometimes hilly route through Staffordshire and the edge of the Peak District.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Henderson heads for glory at 250m\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4113\/4983793399_bf607925be_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4113\/4983793399_bf607925be.jpg\" alt=\"Henderson heads for glory at 250m\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the last 2 kilometres on the video below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3woSvYlCQOw&amp;w=580&amp;h=360]<\/p>\n<p>Ozzie and me went to see the finish, where Kiwi Greg Henderson, riding for the SKY Team easily won the the uphill 12 man sprint to Stoke Town Hall after 100 miles of racing.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"The 13 man breakaway with 300 mtrs to go\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4147\/4984389532_7e4cd36f43_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4147\/4984389532_7e4cd36f43.jpg\" alt=\"The 13 man breakaway with 300 mtrs to go\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was helped to his win by a great team effort, particularly from Olympic Gold medallists Bradley Wiggins and Geraint Thomas, who both lost around 1.45 mins after keeping the breakaway at full throttle in the closing miles.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Ozzie taking on vital fluids\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/4984388806_837530ae74_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4106\/4984388806_837530ae74.jpg\" alt=\"Ozzie taking on fluids\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More photos and videos below.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"2010 Tour of Britain - Stage 2 - profile\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/4984556532_55c8e51c21_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4132\/4984556532_55c8e51c21.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Tour of Britain - Stage 2 - profile\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitelt not very flat round here duck&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4110\/4983790137_5b3f6ca85c_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4110\/4983790137_5b3f6ca85c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" \/>alt=&#8221;Profile of the route&#8221; width=&#8221;600&#8243; \/&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Pinch Point&#8221; at 200m to go to the finish. The race manual say this point is 4m wide!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Bradleys day is nearly over\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4983793887_3c18ff3078_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4983793887_3c18ff3078.jpg\" alt=\"Bradleys day is nearly over\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wiggins work is done.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"flickr-image alignnone\" title=\"Geraint finishes in Hanley\" href=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/4983794343_5b15f8e397_b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:2px solid black;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4112\/4983794343_5b15f8e397.jpg\" alt=\"Geraint finishes in Hanley\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geraints&#8217; day is done&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 2 of the 2010 Tour of Britain was in Stoke today. The stage started in Burslem (Queen of the Potteries!), and finished in Hanley (Stokes&#8217; City Centre) after a fast and sometimes hilly route through Staffordshire and the edge of the Peak District. Check out the last 2 kilometres on the video below&#8230; [youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3woSvYlCQOw&amp;w=580&amp;h=360] &#8230; <a title=\"Tour of Britain 2010\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/?p=694\" aria-label=\"Read more about Tour of Britain 2010\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richandvon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}