{"id":12677,"date":"2025-04-02T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dwars-door-vlaanderen-neilson-powless-stuns-wout-van-aert-and-visma\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:33:00","slug":"dwars-door-vlaanderen-neilson-powless-stuns-wout-van-aert-and-visma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/dwars-door-vlaanderen-neilson-powless-stuns-wout-van-aert-and-visma\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwars door Vlaanderen: Neilson Powless stuns Wout van Aert and Visma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is Powless&#8217; first win since claiming the Japan Cup Road Race in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Van Aert, who has picked up nine Tour de France stage victories, remains without a win since taking the 10th stage in the Vuelta a Espana last August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was me who made the call for the sprint. I was confident I could win, but in the sprint I cramped completely,&#8221; Van Aert said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I wanted the victory so bad, especially after all the criticism I&#8217;ve been through and all the bad luck I&#8217;ve been through.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the women&#8217;s race Elisa Longo Borghini recorded her 50th career victory with a fine solo effort after breaking away from the peloton with 30km left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I was very hungry for the victory here,&#8221; Borghini said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I really wanted to prove that I was strong. There was some frustration in the last weeks, and I need to thank my trainer who is always keeping me calm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/articles\/cwyq5wgzld0o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Powless&#8217; first win since claiming the Japan Cup Road Race in October. Van Aert, who has picked up nine Tour de France stage victories, remains without a win since taking the 10th stage in the Vuelta a Espana last August. &#8220;It was me who made the call for the sprint. I was confident [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12677\/revisions\/12679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}