{"id":175656,"date":"2019-10-07T10:31:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=175656"},"modified":"2019-10-07T10:31:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T10:31:28","slug":"adam-yates-wins-at-cro-race-and-other-cool-news-from-the-world-of-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2019\/10\/07\/adam-yates-wins-at-cro-race-and-other-cool-news-from-the-world-of-cycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Yates Wins at CRO Race and Other Cool News from the World of Cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another Monday is here and our news from the world of cycling with it. So, what did you miss?<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Brit Won in Croatia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The 27-year-old won his first stage race of 2019 at the UCI 2.1 category CRO Race. He finished 22 seconds ahead of Davide Villella from Astana. Yates had taken the decisive lead when he had won stage five on a summit finish at Platak. Yesterday, during the last stage, he defended his lead and finished 7th.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PicOfTheWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PicOfTheWeek<\/a> \ud83d\udcf8 <\/p>\n<p>Ready for a champagne shower \ud83c\udf7e \ud83d\udca6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3wVtWvVwoq\">pic.twitter.com\/3wVtWvVwoq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; GreenEDGE Cycling (@GreenEDGEteam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenEDGEteam\/status\/1181119018914271237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cToday panned out perfectly, we didn\u2019t want to risk working too much earlier in the day and having nobody in the final circuits just in case it kicked off,\u201d Yates said yesterday. \u201cFrom the beginning of the week we set out to win a stage and hopefully the GC would come along with that and that\u2019s pretty much what ended up happening. Alex was up there almost every stage challenging for the win and Brent and Callum really set me up for my win on stage five, so as a team we couldn\u2019t have done much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The win comes as a little bit of consolation after Yates failed to place well at this year\u2019s Tour de France, the ultimate goal of his season.<\/p>\n<h4>CRO Race 2019 results<\/h4>\n<p>1. Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) \u2013 20:57:05<br \/>\n2. Davide Villella (Astana) + 22s<br \/>\n3. V\u00edctor de la Parte (CCC) + 29s<br \/>\n4. Andrey Zeits (Astana) + 42s<br \/>\n5. Domen Novak (Bahrain-Merida) + 50s<br \/>\n6. Alexis Guerin (Delko Marseille Provence) + 1:09<br \/>\n7. Pierre Rolland (Vital Concept \u2013 B&amp;B Hotels) + 1:25<br \/>\n8. Brent Bookwalter (Mitchelton-Scott) + 1:42<br \/>\n9. Sjoerd Bax (Metec \u2013 TKH Continental) + 1:45<br \/>\n10. Radoslav Rogina (Adria Mobil) + 2:09<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Go for it<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3SOd9ioNlK\/<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Congratulations, sir!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yesterday was our 4 year anniversary and earlier this week we welcomed another Thomas into the family\ud83d\ude0d\ud83e\udd70 Sa and our little boy doing great. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ifcarlsbergdidweeks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ifcarlsbergdidweeks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EC1HoX7ZKi\">pic.twitter.com\/EC1HoX7ZKi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeraintThomas86\/status\/1179994397208956928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h2><strong>How did this happen?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Got told by a complete stranger today that I could never be a road rider because my legs are \u201cfar too big\u201d and asked how long I\u2019d been going to the gym. Can\u2019t help but imagine the response if I\u2019d returned the question and asked how long they\u2019d been working on their beer belly \ud83d\ude48<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MILADY MAKER!! \ud83c\udf37\ud83c\udf38\ud83c\udf1e (@elinorbarker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elinorbarker\/status\/1179419594882199553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h2><strong>Heated discussion<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is the sock rule still valid when you wear legwarmers?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeGendtThomas\/status\/1178235740431540224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 29, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Monday is here and our news from the world of cycling with it. 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